Draft - Lots of sweet caramel and some Woody notes. Clearish copper. Sweet caramel, some red berry sweetness with a touch of bitterness in the finish. Super well balanced and well done. Huge fan.

2005 draught pint at Red Bones on 11/12/05. Dark copper amber with a thin beige head, well-retained. Smells like cherries and cranberries. That’s about it. Some sweetness to the cherries, but little in the way of thick malts and certainly no hops apparency. Just lightly dry toffee at best. At first sip, the amount of fruity yeast apparency is quite surprising. All kinds of fruity esters apparent, cherries, plums, cranberries, apples, blackberries. Sweeter than expected malt interacts with the yeast to produce what I would describe most closely as candied apples and caramel-covered apples. Syrupy texture is soft (very low carbonation) and soothing, while the medium-full body is predominantly sweet. No hop apparency. Alcohol dries the flavor out to add balance, without any harsh fusel notes. Tone down Avery Samaels intense, near-cloying sweetness, subtract the oak, add back the mouthfeel that was removed from filtration and it comes out similar to this.

1 1/2 years old. Very dark amber colour. The aroma is malty, showing brown sugar, cherry and hints of toffee. Soft body. Chewy, richly fruity and malty flavour (toffee, demerara, cherry, burnt plum). Just a hint of alcohol in the finish provides nice balance. A quaffable BW.

Cloudy deep brown with thick tan head. Faintly alcoholic malt nose. Malt flavor with medium alcohol heat.