Courtesy of Quake1028. Pours coppery enough that I can’t see Quake1028 through it. It also has a tan foam head. The aroma is roasty, musty caramel, dark dark fruity esters and a bit of alcohol heat. The taste is sweet that builds to caramel and dark fruitiness before some molasses runs through the back bone of the beer. Some pine hop bitterness rides along from front to back. Not the best interpretation of the style but tasty.

22oz Bottle Pours out a clear amber topped with almost no head. A very nice sweet aroma. Tast like a BW. Pretty good. Thanks Jake

Bottle: Amber brown pour with a smaller beige head. Caramel and vinous fruits in the aroma. Tastes sweet with caramel and toffee, still plenty of dark fruits. Rum butter and toasted almonds. Nice creamy palate. Thanks to my secret santa for sending this!

2007....Smells like sweet malty yum!....medium brown with red hues...creamy body....a bit of sweet intermixed with deep malts....a bit nutty...slight bitterness on the finish

Pours dark amber into a tulip. Offwhite head slowly recedes to skim surface. Chocolate and date aromas. Lightly carbonated and thin with tangy dark caramel upfront and a sweet, lasting nutty hop finish.

Amber colour. Very hazy. Nutty, figgy aroma with deep caramel. Big body. Chewy, with heavy caramel notes and accents of nuts, apple skins. Robust earthy bitterness carries this beer.

22 oz. bottle. Wow. This is a very solid Smuttynose beer. Almost brown pour, with a nice thick head. Aroma is malty, with roasted notes, chocolate, and nuts. Taste was pretty refreshing and has a very smooth and rich flavor.

Batch 1 bomber drunk on 5/26/07
A large, fluffy, beige head rises up and is retained quite well. Below this, a hickory-tinged mahogany body lies, with medium to medium-high clarity, though quite dark. Moderate lacing.
Very sweet and sticky in the nose, though some dry, nearly earthy, breadiness comes on late to somewhat mitigate this. But it’s chock full of toffee no matter how you look at it and with a fair bit of sticky caramel as well. Alcohol warmth is evident, and while this serves to aid in the balance, somewhat, it also cuts the aroma short a bit prematurely, leaving only some light phenol and sweet vanilla lingering.
Gooey, cakey-rich toffee and caramel unabashedly take over the flavor profile, while some dark chocolate-covered cherry notes and a light liqueur-like dryness add some complexity. A good amount of bitterness and some phenol-like astringency sit on the finish, with a moderate amount of overt alcohol. Even some coffee-liqueur and banana-like notes make their way in to the flavor, while the mouthfeel is soft and almost syrupy. Carbonation is moderate, not altogether tight, but ample enough to keep it somewhat drinkable.
I could do without the hop bitterness and alcohol, though, that’s for sure, and despite enjoying the well-extracted maltiness, it’s a bit forceful/blunt. I really don’t see this style as particularly enjoyable unless you are going to go the unfiltered, blended, polycultured yeast route with perhaps, some barrel aging. Otherwise it’s just too much like an amped up brown ale.

Pours a transparent nut brown color with amber hues and a foamy, lacing slightly off white head. Smells of fruit, candy and wood. Flavor is malty, sugary like candy, with a toffee and citrus balance. The finish is oily, slightly bitter and implies heavier alcohol that the label indicates. One tip, let this thing warm up to about 60degrees, it mellows the harsher tones in the flavor.

Hazy deep ruby brown body with a medium creamy light brown head. Sweet caramel molassas and rum soaked fruit with a hint of peat. Sweet caramel, chocolate and coffee flavors with light roasted malt, molassas, and a hint of peat. Nutty malty aftertaste.