750 ml bottle purchased at Julio’s Liquors. Batch 0000049 on label. Dirty brown in color with aroma is sweet, spicy and floral all at the same time. I enjoy the aroma.

The flavor is lightly tart up front and turns into some earth herbs in the finish. Medium in body with a light amount of carbonation level. I wish it tasted like it smells. The flavor is a bit bland and falls shy of what I’m getting from the aroma.

Bottle from AirForceHops. Dark brown with some mushy reddish orange. Smells really nice. Loads of herb, honey, clove, spices, Thin mouthfeel, Loads of spice, honey, chestnuts, plum and walnuts. woody finish. ti’s a decent beer.

Bottle from NERHBC, thanks for the opportunity! Somewhat hazy deep amber color with a frothy off white head that persists forever. Not a whole lot of info about this beer, feels like a dark saison but had some odd fruity bitter tanic flavors to it. Kind of digging it and I usually hate a gruit.

Fresh bottle (labeled batch 000000022) drunk 9/26/15.
Wish I knew the backstory on what went amiss with this batch (the commerical description alludes to something screwy happening). Anyhow, it pours a copper-amber with plentiful off-white head and good carbonation and clarity.
The nose divulges a good deal of spice, though it isn’t perfumey/floral so much as nutty and earthy (hibiscus). Peppery, as well, with some bready malts, bits of caramel and dough interspersed and no alcohol nor flaw. Yep, smells like a gruit. The yeast is lovely, with some cellar mustiness and minerality apparent.
Wet, large bubbled texture is rather nutty, with hints of lavender-like floral notes with a strong earthiness, plentiful pepper and the hard-to-describe hibiscus notes. Sweet, but not overly so, with caramel and honey and lots of breadiness. A good gruit and nicely attenuated and balanced. Quite clean and with no alcohol noted. I guess the spices/herbs sort of break up the consistency/texture, but I would like a bit tighter carbonation and more supple texture.

A hazed golden gruit with a thin lacing light mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light coriander, curacao, berries, OK. In mouth, a sweet fruity malt with grapes, light candy sugar, strawberry essence, oily mouth feel, nice. On tap at Vermont brewfest 2015.