Served on draft at the brewery. Pours a brown color with a medium creamy brown head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of brown sugar, caramel and spices. The taste is toffee, caramel, light fruity notes, herbal notes and a spicy hop finish. Medium bodied.

Sample at the 2nd Annual Olde Worthington Beer Festival on 7/10/2010. This beer is a dark reddish-amber color with a medium beige head that dissipates steadily. Stringy lacing. Floral hops and malt aroma. Light body with flavors of floral and mildly spiced hops, malt and a touch of fruit. The finish is crisp and mildly hoppy, leaving a light bitter aftertaste. A little better than average Amber overall.

Draft @ Dark Horse Brewery. Aroma is hoppy and fruity,. Dark ruby red colour, tan head. Aroma is hoppy, grapefruit, bitter, some herbs. Dry and bitter finish. Good stuff.

9th October 2008. GABF. The brew I drank was noted as being made with hibiscus, honey, rose hips, ginko, passion flower and damiana! Clear brown beer. Dry and floral. Not overly complex but different.

Tap at Ashley’s during Ann Arbor Brew Week Pub Crawl. Poured a dark brown (almost black) with an khaki head. Aroma consisted of dark fruits with malty undertone. There was also the slightest presence of spices and flora. Flavor began with sweet malty notes with a slight sour note but becomes darker with a caramel flavor entering and a slight bitterness.

Draft, current guest tap at Flossmoor Station. I just tried it as a beer not an aphrodisiac, and it’s very good. Deep brown body with a "stiff" white head (oh, no, here I go anyway), some unfiltered haze. Nose is intriguing, complex and spicy. As I sipped, the head fell in to gain a creamy oatmeal stout texture. Taste is a delightfully different blend of spices on a base of, I think, German and American hops, and English brown ale malts with a touch, I think, of wheat. Notes of sage, coriander and cumin (huh-huh!). Wouldn’t know what epimedium tastes like, after all. Empties with nice lace through the glass. I may be rating it too highly for its own good, but hey it’s different, it’s good and it’s fresh. As for its claimed herbal properties, my favorite remains stroken palm.

On tap at Dark Horse. Hazy red-brown body, medium buff head. Cerealy, sweet nose with sweet breads, caramel, and grassy hops. Sweet body, too, cut by grassy cereals and herbal hops. Crisp, bitter finish. Silky body. A solid amber ale.