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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught at the brewery, 1/19/18.
Dark copper-chestnut, good clarity and a small, dark beige head that recedes quickly to nothing.
Malty and oaky with not too much residual honey character though certainly lightly spicy phenols and other fermentation biproducts. Sourdough and some light cereal-like grain character perk up on the finish, adding a bit of an acidic character as red fruit esters maybe stem from the malt? Not massively aromatic but rich and clean with little/no alcohol.
In the mouth it's quite toasty with tons of honey-drenched sourdough, vanilla and other oak notes. Pretty nice attenuation, certainly malty enough and soft with fruity melanoidins and moderate residual honey sweetness. What it is severely lacking is carbonation. Not that it's flat, but still much too loose creating wateriness and a somewhat syrupy character at times where there needn't be one had there been tighter, or even just more, carbonation.