Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits an opaque gold body that has copper hues and supports a white head. The aroma offers up sweetness with some fruity esters moving into saison spicy notes and really no smoke sense. The taste delivers sweetness with sweet fruity esters like apples, pears, plums and pineapple and then those notes are cut by spicy saison yeastiness that dries out the experience a tad. Above those notes hovers a malt softened and smooth smokiness that’s pretty full but well integrated and balanced. I’d love to try a crisp fresh and snappy 5% version of this since the Imperial nature makes it too heavy for the style.