Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

(Bottle 2020) Pours hazy red brown with red highlights and a tiny tan head. Lovely aroma - toffee malt, port, notes of smoke and apples. Full bodied, slightly stick, modest fine prickly carbonation. Excellent rich complex taste. There’s a rich toffee malt sweetness throughout the palate. There’s a surprising and lovely fruity tartness that balances this well through the start and mid palate. There’s some modest but pleasant bitterness in the finish. The prodigious alcohol is well integrated. Dangerously drinkable.