22oz bomber, courtesy of gregwilsonstl, pours with a clear deep copper hued body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up prunes and figs and cherry nuanced molasses. The taste delivers fairly smooth and sweet prunes, cherries, raisins and figs drenched in brown sugar and drizzled in molasses. It maintains smooth and sweet English barelywine notes right into the finish. Pretty nice.

22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 1/10/2015. Pours slightly hazy deep ruby red color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of raisin, plum, fig, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, toast, herbal, light pine, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of raisin, plum, fig, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, toast, herbal, light pine, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Fair amount of herbal/pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, plum, fig, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, toast, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice balance and complexity of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with smooth, fairly creamy, and lightly sticky/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is fairly well hidden with a light-moderate warming that lingers after the finish. Overall this is a very nice English barelywine style. All around good complexity, balance, and robustness of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and earthy hop flavors; and quite smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A bit hot right now, but not overwhelming. I will definitely grab some more for aging. A very enjoyable offering.