Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Poured into a snifter, the appearance was a hazy burnt orange to amber color with a thick off white foamy head. Concave lace.
The aroma took some clean tropical notes to play with some citrus. Sweet caramel to toffee malts bring about some vanilla, toast, biscuits and then a light tobacco.
The flavor moderately blended the sweet tropical fruits to the biscuits. Tobacco comes to balance with a sweet to bitter edge pulling in the vanilla just a tad underneath. Well blended aftertaste of tropical fruits, toast, vanilla and tobacco. Semi-dry malty sort of tropical fruity finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sipping sort of quality. This malt driven beer smooths out all along my tongue pulling just a tad of tobacco dryness to sort out with a nice level carbonation. ABV felt ever so nice.
Overall, Davidson outdid themselves with this one. Damn nice winner of a beer, almost barleywine strength, taste and aroma. I didn’t really know this brewery could do something like this. I thought they only brewed just a tad above average to average beers, but this one changed my mind.