22 oz. bottle, pours a murky cloudy dark orange brown with a medium white head. Nose brings out earthy caramel malts and resinous hops - smells rather old. Flavour confirms this suspicion, with old resinous hops and caramel malts. Thanks a lot for this old beer, Sun Devil Liquors in Mesa, AZ - shameful to sell something this old, especially without a bottle date. Lame.

Treated as an American Strong ale, this was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a dark burnt red color with a thin off white foamy head dissipating at a nice pace and leaving a cap of foam that clings for most of the consumption.
The smell starts off with a sweet bready to caramel malt coating sweet to semi-bitter piney to citrus hops.
The taste was mildly sweet through the hops and the caramel and bready malt. Bitterness from the hops makes an effort to balance but ends up drying on into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation feels good with a definitely mostly dry feel on my tongue.
Overall, as an American Strong ale, it works. I’d have again.

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 11/18/2014. Pours crystal clear ruby red/copper color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, caramel, toast, toffee, spicy rye bread, light roast, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity and balance of citrus/pine hops and dark/bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, caramel, toast, toffee, spicy rye bread, light roast, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate amount of pine bitterness and rye spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon/orange zest, pine, caramel, toast, toffee, spicy rye bread, light roast, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, moderately crisp/sticky, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice imperial red ale style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and dark/bready malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.

From bomber to glass. Aroma of rich biscuit malt. Some slight spice from the rye, but had hoped for more. Pours an amber-chestnut with a light tan head. Taste is rich malt with slight chocolate. Alcohol is present. Hops are restrained with grass, slight citrus and a little earth. A little "mole sauce" on the back half. Moderate low bitterness belies the IBUs. Missing a little something.

22oz bomber pours with a clear amber body with some ruby red hues and supporting a thin dark tan head of foam. The modest aroma has some roasted malts mixing with earthy malts, a touch of earthy coffee and then faint citrus to floral hops in the background. The taste begins with sweet malts and mildly roasted malts as well as a dash of coffee. Those roasty notes head quickly into a nice mix of pine and citrus hops. It picks up just a thin ribbon of cherry like fruity esters here and there amid some resiny pine hops heading into the finish. This is a little pricy for what you get but still decent enough.

Bomber from BevMo Salinas. Nose light toffee, rye bread, and some citrus and light pine with a toasty/roasty background note. Clear rust amber with a medium, lightly lacing, pale tan head. Flavor is bitter, resin, and a dark fruit note.

Bottle. Pours a dark amber reddish color with an off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy piney caramel aroma. Fruity malty earthy piney hoppy caramel flavor with hints of licorice. Has a fruity malty earthy hoppy bitter caramel finish.

This beer pours a clear reddish-amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt and hops. Medium body with flavors of piney hops, roasted malt and caramel. The finish is moderately bitter with a hoppy aftertaste. Pretty good all around.

Bottle. Bronze beer with a tan head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light caramel flavor with light darker malts. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and pine linger with light darker malts.

Bottle. Pours reddish amber with off white head. Nose and taste of sweet caramel, pine, grapefruit rind and citrus hops. Medium body. Dryish resin/sap finish.