6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tap at the brewpub - they just added too much crap to this beer, especially the beet sugar - the aging in oak was also totally unnecessary - the result is a strong brown ale that brings an overwhelming sweetness and for too much vanilla and toasted coconut from the oak - there is a creamy body and a fair amount of nuttiness, but a lot of potential complexities are swallowed up by the sweetness and oak - not bad, they just tried too hard.