Taster pour at the brewery. Appearance is opaque black with ruby highlights, no sparkle, small foamy beige head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is bready malt, and perfumey/spicy musky soap. Taste is bready malt, floral, earthy. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, interesting, though interesting doesn't always work. Maybe would be better thought of as a flavorful black IPA.

Roasty nutty toffee caramel nice.