Served on draft at the Smokehouse location. Pours a dark ruby color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of rich coffee notes, chocolate and sweet roasted malts. The taste is roasted malts, bitter coffee and chocolate. Thin-medium bodied. Nice.

This anniversary beer pours like a cold cup of coffee. Dark brown but it lets quite a bit of light through. Medium thin and rocky sandpaper colored head that dissipated quickly. Thin, spotty lacing throughout the glass. The aroma is all coffee, all the time. A light touch of malt in the nose as well but it is minute compared to the blast of java. Medium-bodied, roasty and very smooth, with coffee at the forefront, especially as it warms. It makes for an enjoyable drink although the downside is that it is one-dimensional. Malt and chocolate are present at times but at no point will you forget that coffee is the name of the game here. The finish is dry and roasty like espresso. A good offering from Barley’s, and I am interested to try the ice-cream made from this.