7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a semi-dark copper/auburn color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head. Super light stringy lace.
The aroma had some rugged and roasty dark malts, some nuts/pecans, light vanilla, some black cherries and a touch of some earthy/grassy hops. Some herbal/basement-like danky breadiness comes in to balance as it warmed.
The flavor seemed to blend most of this together somewhat nicely in a refined sort of semi-sweet malty manner. All seemed to ride together into the aftertaste and seemed to miss the point of finding it’s way to the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a fair jumpy sort of sipping quality about it. Some dryness seemed to touch my tongue here and the ABV felt fine.
Overall, some day I’ll probably be an \"old crusty\" man, when that happens and I’m probably not far off yet, I could see myself coming back to this. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll find my way back to Michigan and if I’m lucky, I’ll just fall off into Lake Huron and no one will miss me, probably the way I’d like it.