Draught: Poured a brown with light color head. The aroma is a roasted malt/nuts. The flavor was similar and fairly drinkable.

Had this many times in the past but wanted to give it a fair shake and rate it as I drink. So it is not a memory ticker. My results may be biased. This is an old favorite ‘dark’ brew from before the days of rating beer. I really wanted to compare this to the newer porter and barvarian wheat beers AB recently came out with. Slight yeast roasty aroma after I twist off the cap on the 12 oz brown bottle. Dark brown but not opaque color. Has some orangish hint in hue as well. A well behaved initial smooth flavor that is very gentle-manly like. Very good flavor that is easy to like. It is finished, refined and processed. Good tingly carbonation that makes it creamy and easy to enjoy. This is in the same class as shiner boch and killiams red. I may even have to say it is right up there with yuenglings black and tan. Nice creamy release of bubbles after each sip. Finish leaves you wanting more, not rebellious in any way. Enjoyable, fun, dark, repeatable.

For a mass distribution beer that can be seen at $5-6 for a sixer, this beer is not bad at all. Decent flavor of malts, brown sugar, and caramels. Not a beer to seek out, but a sure winner when only cheap lagers are present.