8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Shaker pint draft at The Martin City Pub in Martin City, Missouri. The pour is an opaque black brown with a foamy tan head. The aroma is char roast, raspberry fruit and nice caramel malt. The taste is a clean raspberry raspberry, the smoke char roast and a hint of the malt sweetness. The flavors really work, often I find smoke beers are too charred, and fruit stouts are way too sweet - this beer did an amazing job of highlighting each flavor, and also using those flavors to offset and manage the other. The palate is medium to light bodied with soft natural carbonation and the smoke char roast dry mineral finish. Expertly made.