Bottle. Very tasty beer. Beep a bearish copper color. Taste is roasted malt with a nice hoppy balance. Aroma is roasted grains with a hint of floral.

Bottle many times. Pours a clear amber with a finger of foam that dissipates. Clean malt and caramel nose, some light peppery hops as it warms. Balanced but a touch sweet on the palate, more caramel. Clean finish with some lingering caramel malt. Kind of old school at this point though.

12oz bottle. Attractive thick burgundy red-brown body, unfiltered. Respectably steady, foamy, off-white head. Big doughy malt tones. Not unlike a brown ale in some respects. Nutty. Kind of has an English feel to it. On the lighter side of full bodied. Pretty good.

This ale poured a cloudy dark red colour with a minimal foamy head. To the nose there are scents of grassy hops, dough and toast. First sip was smooth with a mild shot of hops and lightly sweet malt flavour on top of brown sugar and mildly smoked caramel. Finish is a little smokey with flavours of caramel lingering.

12 ounce bottle into signature pint glass, bottled on 5/27/2014. Pours lightly cloudy deep reddish copper color with a 2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of caramel, toast, biscuit, toffee, nuttiness, light citrus zest, herbal, floral, grass, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, nuttiness, light citrus zest, herbal, floral, grass, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Light earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, nuttiness, light citrus, herbal, floral, grass, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and robustness of dark/bready malt and earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish, Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy, and lightly bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good amber ale. Good balance and robustness of dark/bready malt and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.

Bottle at home. From notes. Absolutely average beer in every way. Nothing offensive and nothing that great.

Tap at Stagshead when the bartender poured by mistake and he gave to me for bonus. pours amber with light nose of malt. tastes rather bland but of nuts, malt, hops, woody, leaves, and malt. touch thin.

A copper amber ale with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, grainy caramel malt with grassy mineral hops. In mouth, a nutty malt with faint British hops, roasted notes, mineral notes, OK. On tap at Rattle and Hum, Sept. 21 2012.