Panda thanks to Ibrew2or3: Poured a caramel brown with a bubble head. Aroma is boosty, malty, dark fruits, plum. Taste is rich malty, sugary, dark fruits, light alcohol, well hidden but warming.

Expensive 12oz bottle pours with a clear deep copper colored body that supports an off white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up some fig to plum to date like fruity esters as well as murmurs of maltiness and a faint mineral sensation. What is the flavour expectation from a 22% abv beer? Oh my. There's so much malty goodness going on here. Sweet base malts give way to some biscuit malts, special roast and other toasted malts. To midway sweeter fig to plum to date like fruity esters bubble to the surface. There's more going on here I can't put words to. The massive abv is well restrained somehow. This is such a solid sipper and there's a chance I may get more even though the price is through the roof. It's that good.