Bottle. Do I smell mild malty sweet root beer? Big and black with an alabaster top. Oh my, first taste is so strong. Its alky laced rotting fermenting cloying fruity fru fru frew. Strong it is, from the start, keeps kicken yah in day noggin. Thick rich chewy happy BS. Whewwieeee. So much beer, so little time. This is one big dizzy bottle. Scary if you drink two, hehehehhheh. Mouth coating dark charred thicker high alky exerience, feels much greater than 8% JMHO. Think; dark bitter bakers chocolate with a tad of mildly over roasted coffee all mixed with aged charred old damp partially burned campfire wood.