Pours deep amber into a Sam glass. White head crackles and recedes to nothing. Sweet raspberry and meringue aromas. Soft with raspberry puree upfront turning to tart lime and pie crust before the medium length seed finish. Not good, but not as bad as it sounds.

12 oz. can from Leary’s Fine Wines. Canning date of 5/4/16... Caramel amber in color, thin lasting white head. Aroma is berries and earthy grain. The flavor is thin toasted grain base with notes of berries and ends on a lime peel bitterness. Kind of astringent. Body is that of very thin and watery brown ale.

I think I will stick with draft only with this brewer. Because to date, the only drinkable beer from this brewer was sampled on draft at the Ale House. This “X” series beer was not easy for me to drink.

Can from Craft Beer Cellar Westford Slightly hazy deep auburn color with a decent sized bubbly off with head that shows moderate retention. Raspberry and lime on the nose with a background of spicy earthy wheat. So the flavor is odd. Its a graham ginger brown sugar fruity spicy thing that reminds me of gingerbread cookies. I enjoyed the first few sips of this, but it wore on me after a while, too many clashing flavors imho.