RBWG14 Trip Rating #170. Bottle shared at the Downtown Inn Saturday PM Bottle Share. Pours a dark brown color with a thin creamy head. Good head retention. Aroma of nuts, roasted malts, herbal hops, very faint barrel character. Taste is whiskey, brown malt, roasted malts, wood, herbal hops. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.

Bottle at RBWG grand tasting. Pours cloudy yellow with white head. Nose and taste of banana, wheat malt, light grain and light sourness. Lighter bodied.

12o bottle. Opened at not fully refrigerated slightly colder than cellarish temperature. Deep opaque brown black body. Massive rusty beige head, give the side of the glass a little lace. An enjoyable enough Imperial Stout, massive sweetness, specialty malts. The aroma is sort of lacking, just some dry oily chocolate coffee faintness. Vanilla, chocolate, coffee. Big flavors. Pleasantly free of barrel aging, bat teeth, monkey ears, and sour patch kids.

Bottle: Cloudy brown with a moderate tan head. Fruit, tree bark aroma. Taste is light, malty......just reminds me of tree-like flavours.... Woody, but sweet. Apple notes, lightly toasted malt. Very enjoyable.

Bottle: Pours cloudy orange-yellow with a short, off-white head. Sweet fruit, barnyard aroma. Taste is lemony, fruity, slightly yeasty, with a mild, spicy/bitter peppering. Pretty good.

Sampled draught as part of a flight at Dunedin House of Beer on January 19, 2014.Clear dark brown to black color, light brown head. Sweet, bitter, cocoa, alcohol taste. Bitter, resin aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium to medium high bitterness. Sweet, malty, resin scent.

Bottle: Pours black with a thin, dark head. Dark chocolate malt aroma. Taste is chocolate, sweet malt, roast, a little ash... slight alcohol bittering... Drinks down very smoothly for 9.5% Very good.

Slightly cloudy golden body with a nice three centimetre tall white head. Aroma of pale malt, wheat, alcohol and a nice piney and floral hop scent. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong wheat and hop flavours at first with a good light wheatie and yeast flavour and some smooth grassy flavours near the end. Aftertaste is mild with only some hops and mild yeast coming through with a little wheat and banana flavours. Overall, not a bad White IPA - showing some good fresh hops, but leaving the palate very mild and subdued throughout. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on 30-December-2013 for US$1.99 sampled in my hotel room here in Clearwater, Florida on 02-January-2013.

12oz bottle poured into a 6oz nonic glass. Medium thick head that never ever fades, its like gelatin on there. Opaque black body. Pretty enough of a stout. Aroma is dull, just wet black malts with mild roast. Dry aroma. Flavor is very dry, bitter black malts, well attenuated. Its pretty dry and tastes like bitter black water. Nothing off , just nothing much there. Bottom of the bottle looks filtered clean.