Pours dark ruddy with a slight beige head. Aroma of plummy dark fruits. Full bodied. Flavor is darkly plummy. Not dry but not at all sticky. Something provides enough bitter for balance. Almost exquisite.

Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a clear deep copper colored body that supports a lasting light tan head of foam. The aroma offers plums, raisins, a bit of dates and then thin caramel and thinner molasses notes. The taste delivers robust and bright plum, raisin and dates. To midway sweet caramel and a thin ribbon of molasses come to the surface to help create balance. Even the caramel is to bright. Into the finish spicy black strap molasses joins in. This needs to mellow and mingle for a while. It's pretty good now but will only improve with time.