Tap at the brewery. This is a bit of an odd brew not quite in any style. Nose is light hops and lovely juniper. Tastes of junipers which I like a lot, some light pine, roasted malt, and molasses. Very creamy and smooth palate. Doesn’t have that IPA bitter pop. Enjoyable I wish I could bring back to cold east coast with me.

Growler pours with a nice dark body that supports a thin tan to light mocha colored head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, to burnt malts and right to ashy malty char. Mixed right in there with the burnt malts must be the Juniper as I get a faint not burnt malt in the background. The taste is no different and I have a hard time shaking a cigarette ash tray sort of sensation. It has a modest body and unleashes dark roasted to burnt to straight up ashy char notes. Well underneath are murmurs of chocolate and a vague slightly resiny hop bitterness. This is the most burnt malts I’ve had in a long while. Nothin’ wrong with that.