Pours rather clear amber, small white head. Smell is sweet, yeasty, mild booze. Taste is very booze-forward, but with a (simple) malty backbone. Grainy sweetness, as well as metallic notes that are to me typical from the ambermalts. However, the boosted alcohol content here, gives the beer a chemical, medicinal sidetaste that tends to overpower the pallet by the time the aftertaste kicks in. Not as traumatic as the Gordon beers, but I can see the same kind of people drinking this...