473 ml can. Pours an orange brown with short foamy head and lots of suspended particles. Aromas of dank weedy hops, caramel and toasted malts. Flavors of same with some additional sugars. Weedy bitter finish.

Poured from 473mL can. Copper brown with small light beige head. Toffee and crystal malt forward with quite light resin hops, okay. Gets a hint phenolic bandaid-y as it warms, but minimally (lowered overall by .2).

473mL can. Pours clear amber-brown with a beige head. Caramel malts, toffee, and a bit of resin on the nose. Flavour is fairly dry, very bready malt character, plenty of hops, nice touch of yeast as well. Not the most complex strong ale, but I like this.

Vibe. I remember back when I coined the term American Strong Ale, I was thinking of how to categorize stuff like Arrogant Bastard on Ratebeer, versus the likes of Fuller's 1845 and that sort of thing. The intense hoppiness was a key distinguishing factor (we later added experimentation, like DFH Raison d'Etre). So when I drink this, I get the big US bitterness, some English yeast character, a bit of both and a bit of neither.

Dark amber, with some haze to it. Aroma has some nice crystal malt chewiness with old school hop - maybe even goldings on this. Lemony notes, toffee...let's put it this way, the structure is the best of both worlds. The reality is that the malt base, hop richness and yeast subtlety are not worldly at any point, but this concept is the shit. And while this pushes the boundaries of what Yukon Brewing can do, this idea has legs for me, and Yukon Brewing did it first.

473mL can, pours a deep dark reddish brown with a medium beige head. Aroma has big caramel malts, bready toffee, and a touch of hop resins too. Flavour is much the same, with plenty of caramel, bready malts, toffee, and just a gentle hop expression providing light bitterness. Not particularly complex malts, but it’s pleasant. Simple strong ale.