Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Draught at the brewery, 12/26/18.
Dark mahogany-to-coal. Tan head is small and quickly recedes to nothing. Undetermined clarity.
Nose is brownie batter up front but very quickly joined by strong lactose-like sweet-and-sour character lending an almost raisin-prune quality and creating some dark chocolate and cocoa notes. Strong vanilla on the finish with not noxious alcohol, yet still it's there. I guess there's a flour-like or cereal/biscuit character you could consider donut-like, but almost certainly that's because I want there to be one, knowing what the beer is trying to do.
In the mouth it's shockingly thin, watery, vapid and quite sweet, with punchy acidity from the lactose that doesn't balance the prune and fudge from the malt. Dirty, ashen, roasty notes on the end further create a disjointed picture and there's surprisingly little softness, no comfort and very little depth. Lots of sugar, lactose and syrup. Alcohol shows through easily on the finish, further loosening the texture. Low carbonation.