Tap @ brewery. Cloudy, brownish orange appearance with a tan head. Rich, toasted oak that mostly consumes the aroma besides hints of vanilla and caramel. Red fruity, caramel malty, toasted oaky flavor that has limited carbonation and is surprisingly boozy and hard to drink. Not a good idea.

Snifter at the brewery - why do people oak beers like this? - it is so easy to leave it in the oak too long - tastes like oak - vanilla - oak - light caramel - oak - mild fruitiness - oak - faint stale hops - oak - I guess you really need to like oak to like this - tastes like fresh oak barrel and muddled maltiness - you could have put a barleywine or imperial stout or sour ale in the new oak barrel, but no...you put an friggin’ esb in there - ugh!