Chroma

On tap at Portico, pours a hazy murky dark amber with a small white head. Aroma reveals plenty of earthy spice, dry toffee, bready malt, and subtle dry-hopping. Flavour starts malty, with plenty of bready and caramel malt, transitioning to quite a bitter hoppy, spicy finish. Definitely a hoppier amber. Solid.

Can (5/3/21) from Craft Beer Cellar, Newton. It's a murky, opaque reddish-brown with tons of dark floaties, light sparkle, finger-width rocky off-white head with good retention and decent lacing. Aroma is rye, caramel and faint apple and winter spices. Taste is similar to aroma but everything is stronger and better balanced. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, an interesting, but kind of weird, winter warmer quality to it. Too carbonated and could use some help in the looks department. Surprised CBC would sell this for full price 10 months after it was canned. Would have expected this from America's favorite discount liquor store, but not one that should totally know better. No matter where you are--gotta check the dates! Glad to get the brewery tick but am bummed I got this version. At least is doesn't seem that different from previous reviews.

Draught @ Grafton st Pub, Cambridge (9 May 19). Murky amber red with very small frothy light beige head, faint sweet caramel aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter caramel taste with grassy hops flavor, thin body, medium finish. Not very remarkable.