Bottle from Mikkeller Web Shop. Hazy reddish orange with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 300115

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home. [ As Clown Shoes Crunkle Sam ].Clear medium to dark amber - red orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, dried fruit, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, wood. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, hoppy, fruity, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic nad quit hoppy. [20141231]

Thick butter-coloured head, fast receding over hazy red-amber beer. Rich malts, cakey, under fragrant, sweet-fruity (muscat grapes) hops. Alcohol and fusels apparent, musk. Bitter flavour, hoppy, but with again a strong malt undercurrent, suggesting sweetness and even syrup, without really surfacing. Quinine-like bitterness, fruit as passion fruit and melon, but bitter. Vinous, especially warming up. Rich, but too wry to be velvety. Well-carbonated, well-bodied. Nice BW.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Clown Shoes Crunkle Sam (by Clown Shoes Beer (Harpoon Brewery)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

13/I/15 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: n/a (2015-43) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Clear deep amber to purple beer, big creamy beige to yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very heavy, sweet, honey, red fruits, raspberry jam. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, caramel, fruity, strawberry jam, little sourish, lemony, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: some citrus, red fruits, honey, caramel, alcohol, sweet, dried fruits, soft bitterness, citrus. Pretty good stuff.

Bottle @ Odense Tasting January, 2015. Pours dark unclear amber with a creamy head. Nose is rich and vinous. Dark fruit and caramel. Very sweet with a note of oxidation and dusty hops.

22 oz. bottle stamp on neck reads 5/19/2013, just enough age. Amber color with thin head. Aroma is caramel covered dark fruits and still light hop notes. The taste shows no alcohol and really smooth. What surprises me the most is the remaining hop presence that balances the brew extremely well. The texture is dry with some light bitterness. Very nice!

Burnt orange, copper penny appearance. very light minimal head. Smells awesome. just maple syrup and straight up bourbon with vanilla and toffee. Taste is pretty awesome. this is really nice. Delicious. Burnt malts, some rye whiskey, brown sugar, a slight bit of butter. Sticky sweet, oily mouthfeel. bitterness is faded but still sticky.

Bottle bought @ bierkompass.de. Pours clear deep amber with a frothy and creamy goldenish brownish beige head that leaves some spares sticky trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty, fruity, tiny earthy and tiny boozy with caramel, toffee, grapefruit juice, mango, canned peaches in simple syrup, resinous wood, pine needles, moist grass, orange zest, lemon zest and hints of alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty, fruity, slightly herbal, slightly earthy, tiny floral and tiny boozy with sweet dark bread, caramel, toffee, grapefruit juice, cape gooseberries, resinous wood, moist soil, pine needles, moist grass, lemon balm, orange zest, lemon zest, alcohol and hints of cardboard. Mouthfeel is round, slightly viscous, sticky, slightly oily bitter, slightly astringent, slightly boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is slightly sweet, bitter, malty, slightly fruity and slightly earthy with caramel, toffee, grapefruit juice, resinous wood, pine needles, moist soil, alcohol, kumquats, lemon zest and hints of cardboard. Solid, tasty and sadly slightly cardboard oxidized US barley wine.