Draft. Brown beer with a tan head. Bourbon and light chocolate aroma. Bourbon and light vanilla flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Bourbon and caramel linger with light vanilla.

Tap at Cap Hop. Pours very, very dark brown with a humongous tan head. Complicated aroma of dark fruits, dark treacle, chocolate, perhaps a touch of honey. Barely full bodied. Flavor is dark fruits, maybe to include cherry, maybe a touch of honey (seem to get that on my lips), darkish, treacly malt, and chocolate. Far from dry and not exactly bitter, yet somehow there’s something like bitter - like a weird honey or maybe hidden astringent wood. Bourbon? I think so, but I’m fighting to get it past all the other complications. Very challenging and pretty tasty.

On tap at Altamont. It pours black with a tan head. The aroma has vanilla, dark chocolate and dark fruit. The flavor has big time woody vanilla with some dark fruit and chocolate. Medium bodied.