Pours cloudy dark brown color with khaki head. Rye spiciness in the aroma with some pine hops. Roasted malts, coffee and some bitter hop flavors. The oatmeal give it a smooth, creamy mouthfeel. Medium body with average carbonation. An interresting brew.

Bottle with thanks to that one guy who I can’t recall right now and may just look up later. I’ve held this for a while hoping to share with a pal, but I’ve been flying by the seat of my pants for the last couple of weeks and I think the inspiration from this beer might help me \"wing it\" a little more effectively. Anyhow, body is a nice leathery brown with light pouring through a little around the edges. The head is a massive six inches or so of fizzy foam that slowly dies back leaving lots of scaly lacing on the sides of the glass. Aromas are a pleasant mix of toffee, oranges, nuts or earth and wood. They are a little underpowered, but nice enough. Flavor is pretty similar and has something vaguely Cigar City about it... not sure if it is a malt profile I’ve had before or what... give me a couple dozen more bottles of their stuff and I’ll figure it out. Anyhow, malt presence is nice and sweet... brown sugar and toffee. Hops leave a little bit (very faint) resin presence in the finish and there is quite a fruit medley on the way there. Oranges and plums are what I come up with... maybe some cherries or something, too. This is interesting stuff, but not quite as nice as some CC products I’ve sampled. Carbonation and mouthfeel almost make me think this is nitro carbonated... it has that creamy texture and flavor.

Nice one. Starts with a bright floral hop nose and flavor, backed by smooth chocolately malts, leading to a fairly strong bitter (hop) finish. If anything maybe the IBUs were too high for my liking but on the whole it was a good beer. Medium brown color with a good foamy head.

Bottle - thanks changeup415. Chocolate colored body with a large, creamy beige head. Nose is mostly sweet, citrus and light florals. Strange for an all malt ale... Sweet, citrus, and floral up front, almost syrupy, before a soapy bitterness takes over. I’ve had beer with rye before, so what is this all about? This can’t be the oatmeal or rye; it tastes like it was aged in a pvc pipe... Dry finish with a lingering soapy bitterness. As it warmed, the rye becomes more noticable in the aroma. Not bad. I still taste a little plastic/soapy bitters in the tail, but it is less noticable than before. Still, as much as I want to like this... it just didn’t happen.

Dark brown color. Oatmeal and rye compete in the nose and it is not really a good combination. In fact, it kinda reminded me of Brett. Big body, fairly hoppy, lots of oatmeal and sharp rye notes. I don’t know, it just seemed liked this beer was going too many directions at once and got lost. Didn’t do much for me.

Bottle Pours out a dark brown topped with a small head. Aroma was very nice light coffee notes along with some candy sweetness. Tatse was more of the sweetness black liq, dark roast, bitter dark chocolate and some bitter grapefruit peel at the end. Thanks ditmier

Black with a big, khaki colored head. Very little in the aroma, unfortunately. Kind of a mess, hops rye, lightly roasted grain, burnt popcorn. It is hard to figure out what they were going for. Thanks to Skyview for sharing anyway.

GABF2009 - much like their Cuban Espresso Maduro, there is a kind of burnt/ashy/char character to this, but unlike that beer, this is tempered/smoothed out by the smoothness of oatmeal, and the lovely spiciness of rye ྸ%, hell yes!) - it’s also got a strong backbone of nutty character and chocolate sweetness - finishes off with potent american hops - fairly solid.

Bottle via a trade with dchmela. Pours with a large, off-white head over a hazy brown body. Very nice lace. Taste is chocolate, rye, spice, pine hops and floral hops. Taste is pine, rye, bitter, with light roast. Creamy mouthfeel and light bubbles.