8.1

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle, 2024 vintage. Caramel aroma with notes of brown sugar, spicy saison yeast, toffee, dark fruit and booze. Pours clear dark copper colored with a thin tan head that has little retention and thin ring of lacing. Starts with caramel, brown sugar and dark fruit flavors as well as having a rich, fully body and sticky sweet mouthfeel. Finishes smooth with spicy saison yeast and toffee flavors as well as a good amount of warming booze at the end. Not sure this is a saison anymore, more of a barley wine or quad but still with very little heat from the high abv. Very good.