Pint can pours with a deep dark mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up booze soaked smooth bourbon and then lesser amounts of dark roasted malts, jammy prune dark fruity esters, chocolate and a faint molasses note. The taste delivers smooth supple bourbon ringed thinly by brighter hotter boozy notes. Just beneath the booze is a pleasing layer of chocolate and sweet prune and date dark fruity esters. To midway mild notes of caramel and molasses join up with the chocolate in a failed attempt at beating back the booziness. Into the finish a firm sense of spicy oak wonders about the fields of bourbon and booze to help drive this experience to closure. Booze shows up in this rating but it isn't out of place or too much in any sense for a beer like this. It's basically spot on. Great balanced sipper.