Pint can pours with a slightly hazy copper colored body that has thin golden hues and supports a fairly short lived white head of foam. The aroma offers up malty sugars, vanilla, a dash of plum and then some cinnamon, cardamon (I suppose as it comes off as just a vague sort of spiciness outside of the realm of the cinnamon note) and then more vanilla. The taste delivers smooth sweet wide swath of vanilla bean rimmed thinly with cinnamon and diving into a lactose sensation. Another sip reveals a sense of floral hoppiness intermingling with a bit of plum like sweet fruitiness and then ranging right back into more vanilla into the finish. The ABV is very well hidden. The treatment comes across a little too strong and strangles the base beer flavours into an early death. Fun experience but these pastry barleywines aren't really my bag. Give me my damn bag!