Bottle from Healthy Spirits, SF, February 2014. Amber with a small head. Quite sweet with dried fruit, oak, whisky, light malt and some fruit. Some warming alcohol in the finish. An ok one.

Bottle. Rich amber-brown beer with a tan head. Caramel and whiskey aroma with light cherry. Caramel and cherry flavor with rye whiskey and light oak. Medium bodied. Caramel and cherry lingers with light lemon and light rye whiskey.

22oz bottle thanks to toby. Pours out a amber no head. Hose is caramel malts barrel and brown sugar. Taste is as the nose with lots of sweetness caramel malts barrel and some bitterness the end.

Bomber. Pours a cloudy reddish color with a medium white head. A sweet nose if toffee, caramel and fruit. The flavor is similar with big sweet malty notes, light barrel, vanilla and smoke. Heat. Pretty good.

27.06.2013, tap @ Top Hops Beer Shop NY:
Small creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly neutral, caramel malts, wood, toffee, dark sugar, vanilla, alcohol, grass, almond essence. Taste is slightly dry, caramel malts, wood, grass, alcohol, toffee, dark sugar, almond essence, vanilla. Medium bitterness, very dry mouthfeel. Fair enough, a little boring.

On tap at Belmont Station Bier Cafe, pours a murky dark orange with a small beige head. Aroma is quite subtle, with notes of alcohol, wood, and very subtle hints of dark fruit. Flavour brings out quite a bit of rye, some wood chips, and quite a bit of alcohol. Very bitter and sharp from the rye. Much better than the oak version. The fruits are completely buried by the rye. Better than the oak version, but this is a rye bomb.

Bomber from Belmont Station. Pours translucent copper with a yellow/beige head. Aroma of rye more than anything. Med + body. It starts with sweet fruit and a burn in the gullet. The oak and rum are strong. There’s noticeable fruit in this version. Finishes with wood, fruit and rum. Nearly dry. Shocking flavor range and very tasty.

Clear amber coloured body with hints of deep brown and a thin, half centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pure alcohol - whiskey, scotch, rye and some oak with vanilla and pit fruits - pungent. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong assertive malts up front with a discrete earthiness, some strong sugars from pit fruits and caramel and toffee and a bit of a fruity note, tucked way behind the rye, alcohol and oak flavours that dominate. Aftertaste is okay, but a bit thin and watery and not complex enough, given the components. Overall, a decent beer - but I was expecting much more, especially from Cigar City. Nice to try, but definitely passable if something else is offered! I sampled this snifter on draught at Pony Bar in New York, New York on 13-July-2013 for US$5 (as always).