Slender can pours with a clear deep copper colored body that supports a tiny ring of light tan foam. The aroma offers up plum and raisin like dark fruity esters as well as shallow murmurs of malts. The taste follows suit as I get smooth sweet sugar stewed plums and some raisins flowing into a mild sweet malt to sweet molasses sensation. This is a nice, straight forward English Barleywine with no downside. The ABV is well hidden and the esters remain restrained and somewhat integrated. Solid sipper.