Bottled. A deep red beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of roasted malt and caramel, as well as lighter notes of milkchocolate. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of straw to start off, but then notes of milkchocolate comes along, as well as some caramel sauce. The finish is slightly bitter, and the alcohol leaves a slight burn on the tongue.

Draft at Yard House, San Diego. Deep chocolate aroma with some burnt malt. Near opaque black/brown color with a creamy tan head. Medium bodied; creamy carbonation (could be nitro, the tap was on the other side of the island). Then things went weird. Seemed to be vanilla cherry chocolate. It was not a bad thing, but whatever it was overpowered the chocolate and the malt. Very smooth. The dark malt only came into its own in the finish. Very unusual and interesting. Quite an experience.

Pour is a copper with a small soapy white head. Aroma is some small amount of caramel malts but there is some piney hops to pick things up. Flavor is a very clean tasting citrus hop with some very small amounts of malts. Some would say this is watery but i think there is enough flavor to carry this one over to this decent catagory.

2007-11-30, Papsø’s Blind Tasting, 3-3-4-2-7=19
Cloudy deep blond color; big fluffy head. Strange aroma, sweet, wax, a bit fruity (sweet yellow fruits, apricot jam). Medium-weak body, very astringent, light malt flavor, strong bitterness. A disaster.

2006-12-26, 6-4-7-3-14=34
Hazy golden color, creamy head. Delicate aroma of malt and hop. Medium body structure, some malt, good hopping, bringing caramel-like flavors. Medium-strong bitterness, long final, with toffee as well. Pleasant.

22 oz. bottle. Looks preety good: copper-gold body with a rocky APA head. Lightly fruity ale smell with slight hop backing. Not impressed by the taste, however. A light slap oh hops on a thin, almost watery body. A style like this needs some sticky malts to match the hop bill. This one is just kind of thin. Found this brand at Binny’s of Willowbrook.

Bouteille, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur noire rouge et transparente. Nez de malt rôti plutôt doux (faibles notes brûlées), de chocolat noir, léger de café avec de faibles notes fruitées (cerises noires), de noix et de caramel butterscotch. Mince-Moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement plutôt bas et une texture légèrement crémeuse et aux notes huileuses et aqueuses. Léger goût de chocolat au lait (faibles notes lactiques) avec de légères traces fruitées (cerises noires) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût moyennement amer de malt rôti aux notes brûlées ainsi qu’un léger goût de chocolat noir et des traces de caramel butterscotch puis en finale, un léger goût de café noir vient se rajouter avec des notes de noix. Post-goût moyen-long aux notes sèches, moyennement amer de rôti, de chocolat et de café avec de faibles notes de noix

Dark brown color. Nice aroma of dark caramel and roasted malt, a bit phenolic. Quite good flavor, a mix of caramel, roasted malt and dark chocolate. The body is a bit thin. The roasted malt is harsh in the end.