22 ounce bottle shared with and provided by cdumler. Thanks! Pours dark brown and hazy, like mud, with a moderate head. Caramel, toffee. hops and tart fruity notes in the aroma. Taste is nuts, lots of nuts, caramel, toffee and bitter hops. Full bodied.

A lightley murkey brown ale with a thin light moka head. Nice hoppy aroma,lightly floral, caramel and treacle. In mouth, a nice caramelly IPA with good hopping, a bit of grapefruit, nice vinous notes, light licorice. Rich and interesting. Bottle at American Flatbread, Post Vermont Brewfest Dinner, July 19 2008 with TaktikMtl and Goldorak.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a foamy, off-white head with very good lacing, and a deep brown body. Aroma has a nice hop (spicey and citrus) presence, tons of toffee and caramel as well. There is also a deceent amount of alcohol that nicely rounds out the finish. Taste is roasty and nutty up front with a bit of coffee, and hops with a alcohol backbonee finishing it up. Kind of thin for a 10% barely wine. Warming with light carbonation.

Rated July 2008. Courtesy of gillard (thanks Ryan). Pour slightly hazy amber with thin tan head. The aroma is dark fruity esters with some crystal malty sweetness. I also get some mild hotness too. It tastes nice and rich with a lean toward sessionable. I'm getting some malt chewy sweetness leading the way toward dark fruity esters like plums, cherries and grapes. The pine hop bitterness mixes nicely with the other notes.

Bottle at BeerDig 2011 on 03/06/2011. Hazy dark amber body with a small tan head. Sweet fruit and caramel aroma. Sweet caramel and fruit flavor. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. 7/3/8/3/16 3.7 On 03/14/2008. Hazy brown body with a medium tan head. Sweet brown sugar and molassas aroma. Heavy molassas flavor with light sugary notes. 7/3/7/3/14 - 3.4

Translucent (nearly opaque) deep brown with a thin, layering and lacing, slightly off white head with little bits of sediment in the bottle. Smells big, heavy malt, heavy hops, sweet and spicy. Flavor is just as big, heavy malt, brown sugar, toffee, grain, biscuit, citrusy hops, grapefruit and pine. Finish is thick on the tongue and in the mouth with plenty of heat like a barleywine should. Nice, loved it.

Draught at EBF
The Rock Art guy got all flustered when I told him he stole the name from Ben and Jerrys. Add "lack of a sense of humor" to the problems at Rock Art.
Dark maple-brown beer, but yet quite clear with a small, quickly receding light-tan head that leaves little/no lacing.
Sweet caramel-toffee in the nose is quite sugary, but backed by a load of acidic, American hops lending quite a bit of pine and light floral character. It falls off by the finish, however, which resumes its malt sweetness, albeit more elegantly (probably not the right word) with notes of roast, cola and maple fudge. A strong note of buttercream and vanilla lingers on, quite thick and voloptuous and mixing with the layers of dark malts, it’s pretty enjoyable. Alcohol is held back for a while, but emerges on the finish after some warming.
Sweet, sticky and definitely chewy, the consistency was the most remarkable part about it. Almost like chocolate-vanilla fudge iced cream, between the base malts, chocolate malts and thick body. Some roast and tar make their way in, lightly, but a surprising lack of vinousness or any fruitiness here. Standard American over-bittering leads to rather dull acidity/bitterness, with a lack of hop flavor/character, mostly pine and citrus. Sweet toffee and maple fight through it on the finish, with light vanilla cream lingering as well. Moderately alcoholic, but the texture soaked some of it up.