Panda, courtesy of S.H.I.G., pours with a brown with burnt rusty orange and mahogany hues supporting a thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up plum and fig like fruity esters as well as thin malts and molasses in the background. The taste delivers smooth slick sweet plums and dates and figs blending into a growing sweet maltiness. To midway the malts pick up a faint toffee to molasses sweetness becoming apparent as the sweet dark fruity esters fade into the periphery. Very nice barleywine offering.

Can: Poured a mahogany brown orange with a bubble beige head. Aroma is full of dark fruits, raisin, figs, very boosty, toffee, malty. Taste is boozy, figgy, toffee, caramel, malty, raisin. Lively alcohol warming finish.

12oz can courtesy of mansquito. thanks. pours a clear roan brown color with a small off-white head that soon fades to a ring around the glass. The aroma is dominated by toffees and caramels. The taste, like the aroma is all about the toffee--and its delicious. The bitterness is rather mild. The palate is full with soft carbonation. Finishes long and dry with lingering toffee. Overall: Decent--this is a banging barleywine.