Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a rosy red amber body that supports a light tan colored head. The mild aroma offers up some winter spices, sweet prune and fig fruity esters and a thin ring of vague hoppy resiny bitterness. The taste has a lot going on with a mix of rye spicy twang, resiny pine hops, big winter spices and a modest degree of sweet dark fruity esters in the background. The spiciness starts to pick up a bit of a cinnamon and ginger blended with a mild rye sort of note. This is a nice hoppy winter sipper.