Draught at the brewery, 12/26/18.
Crystal clear, auburn-chestnut with mahogany hues. Off-white head atop is medium-sized, fluffy and well-retained.
Nose is full of English yeast lending raisin, plum, cherry, apple and hints of pepper and clove. No actual spice? Not sure, but if so it's very nicely integrated. Bready malts don't go too far on the specialty malt character and it seems very well-attenuated and yet neither alcoholic or husky.
In the mouth it's soft, with some hard bread-like notes, but mostly enough base malt to keep the texture comforting. Quite dry with caramel, brown bread, raisin, plum, apple and light clove. Fruitiness lingers. Perfect carbonation and really nice attenuation and balance here. No sign of the alcohol.