Can, thanks Immanuel! Roasted malt aroma with notes of honey, chocolate, caramel and toffee. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has little retention and a thin ring of lacing. Starts with roasted malt, toffee and chocolate flavors. Finishes smooth with caramel and honey flavors. Decent brown.

Roast and a little honey. Black pour with decent head. Some caramel in the finish, some bitterness. Medium body. Tap at Oyster City Mobile. 838315

This beer is instructive in the difference between rating to style and hedonic rating. I've written similar points in previous ratings, that I don't rate to style, and don't even like to do so, and am purely a hedonist when it comes to beer. But in the past there have been times where I would be really in the mood for a specific type of beer and then been disappointed that a purchased example didn't hit it. That surely affects the hedonic pleasure one would have. In this case that is partly true, but it doesn't miss the mark so much that you'd say its not a brown ale. But as I see that ratebeer calls this an imperial brown, then I notice the ABV and now the beer makes sense. The semi-sweet profile, the booziness, the anise and dark fruit, yes I might expect these in something like an old ale or barleywine (which really is imperial brown even a thing, wouldn't such a beer have been called an old ale in the 1990s and before?). I would have had a different perspective on this beer if I'd thought of it as such. Well its fine as is, certainly less drinkable than a sessionable brown.

12 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a clear root beer color with ruby highlights and a small khaki head with fair retention. A few spots of lacing. Walnuts and malt aroma. Flavors of nuts, moving to some molasses and anise, with a light boozy finish. I don't taste the honey or chocolate malts. The 8.5% ABV is fairly hidden, but strong enough to suppress / mask the flavors. A little thin for a brown ale. Low carbonation and low bitterness. Too strong for it's own good.

12 oz can purchased as a single at CK Feed & Supply Provisions & Gifts in Rosemary Beach, Florida. 7 23 21 date stamped on the bottom of the can. The pour is a clear brown copper with a light tan head. The aroma is nut brown with grass and caramel toffee. The taste is big sweet chewy nut brown malt with the toffee and grass dry in the back. The palate is medium to heavy bodied with soft carbonation and the dry finish. Big assertive beer, nice.

10/1/2021. Can sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers. Pours dark brown with a small frothy beige head. Aroma of chocolate, nut, toffee, touch of spiced fruit cake. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, slightly watery, soft carbonation. Seemed surprisingly weak for it's abv.

Panda at home, thanks to SHIG, 07/01/21. Mahogany brown with a light khaki cap that dissipates edgeward. Nose is nutty, dried fruit esters, brown bread, hint of toffee, light phenols. Taste comprises fruit loaf, brown sugar coating, toffee, dried fruits, faint spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a kiss of booze. Passable offering ... would be fine for a standard brown ale but lacks depth to its flavour considering the high boost noted.

Can thanks to MrsSHIG: Poured a brown marble with a tan color head. Aroma is sweet, fruity, honey, light nutty. Taste is sweet, chocolate, malty, some pennies.