22 oz. bottle from Lukas, OPKS. I assume this is the most recently release, couldn’t tell from the bottle. Pour is a slightly hazy reddish orange with some carbonation and a medium sized off white head. Aroma is butterscotch sweet malt and a hint of hops. Taste is more of the butterscotch malt, but not nearly as sweet as the smell. A touch of heat in the finish. Good BW, though still a bit young.

Small light beige head. Deep brownish red body with yeast floaties. Deep, intense sweet firm malty, sugary aroma with strong notes of straw and caramel. Intense deep sweet malty caramel and straw taste with oily, dry, hoppy aftertaste. Fantastic! (0.75l bottle. Thanks to gr0ve.)

2006 bomber from Rooftoprogue, drunk on 11/21/06
First off, let me say that I really respect the commercial description on this one. No fancy claims and stunningly accurate. I might have some other ways of describing "the wonders" the hops work on your palate, but that’s just subjective.
All GD big beers show a large amount of head, well-retained and fluffy, with very light sediment on the bottom of the bottle. Medium-high clarity in a dark chestnut-mahogany with some hickory and dull auburn tints. Head is beige and creates ample lacing. Plentiful carbonation seen in the liquid.
True as they say, the nose is, at first, mellow and quite fruity. Mostly yellow fruits (light peaches, nectarines, apricots) slowly picking up hop influences to include orange rind, lemons and of course, grapefruit. But it’s certainly not brightly aromatic in the hop department. Thick and bitter, the hops hang over the other flavors with a strong, astringent/acidic leafiness. Some faint melon notes are present but quickly lose out to heavy resin. Warming on the finish from the alcohol, but no sharp/raw fumes. Caramel malt seems well attenuated, but still sticky, giving notes of treacle and molasses. Toffee and dry breadiness, something like munich malt almost seems apparent as well. Earthy, you might call the malt.
A brief interlude of light pale malt sweetness is banished by heavily bitter, resinous/citric hops. Intensely acidic and drying, it’s no stretch to imagine the 90 IBUs here. It immediately begins to fatigue my palate, and some bready malts, with traces of lightly sweet toffee and caramel are felt in the back of the palate, holding more sway over the texture than the flavor balance. Still, as much as some sweet malt would create more balance, I don’t think it would ameliorate the heavy/fatiguing feel of the hop acids and thus, I like the dry, attenuated feel of the malt here. Crusty, earthy, crunchy and quite lean, though the beer is never watery or undermalted. Hops burn through to the finish and a pine sap numbness is left on the palate. Well-made, in respect to the attenuation, cleanliness and general aims of the beer (it does exactly what the brewer seems to intend, according to the commercial description). In the end, though, I just find these beers to be obnoxiously crass and unbalanced; fatiguing to the extreme. As well, the aroma needs more finishing hops and brightness. It’s too dull and bitter. Not something I’d ever drink again, but I can see the appeal to hopheads.

Bottled. Nut brown/amber colour. Aroma is alcohol, plum, spices and a lot of fruit. Flavour is spices, plum, raisins and candy sugar. Almost like a mediumsweet Madeira wine.