Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at DT. Pours a clear gold with a finger of off-white foam that lingers. Big punchy ruby red grapefruit aromas with light caramel, stone fruit and dank. Palate is similar. Well-balanced and ABV hidden well. Nice round mouthfeel with a drying, piney and grapefruit focused finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from the brewery. Pours a clear straw gold with a finger of soapy, white foam that dissipates. Dank and blueberry aromas with citrus pith and peel as it warms. Palate is similar, light bodied with medium carbonation. More zest, dank and berry skin on the finish. A crusher!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
2024 release multiple times on draft and in can. Pours a deep brown to black with a finger of beige head that dissipates. Big maple focused nose with fluffy marshmallow, milk chocolate notes. As it warms lots of bourbon and oak underneath. Palate is similar with oak, chocolate and maple syrup all present. Warming with bourbon and chocolate on the finish with a maple kiss.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from DT. Pours a thick dark brown to black with a finger of beige head that lingers. Big coffee, espresso focused nose with cacao nib as it warms. Palate shows the same espresso notes with vanilla, cacao nib and baker's chocolate. Balanced finish with a nice lingering cacao nib and espresso note.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Draft and multiple cans from DT. Pours a hazy, glowing straw gold with a finger of fluffy white head that lingers. Great lacing down the glass. Juicy pineapple, papaya and passionfruit on the nose. Palate shows the same with starfruit, dank and light pithy citrus notes. Low perceived bitterness, smooth with the wheat used well. Great stuff from DT.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Super hazy golden, orange and straw coloured body with a nice two centimetre tall tan head that caps the beer nicely above the 90 per cent opaque glowing body. Aroma of oranges, mangoes, papaya, melons and a very nice wheatie, oaty and rich sweetness, but the fresh hops and especially the fruity aspects in the nose here are great! Full-bodied; Very rich oaty and wheat malts here dominate with a very nice effervescence and a crisp dose of fruits with the oranges and mangoes strongest, but a good dry quality coupled by a lot of lactose and cream notes make this rich, robust and pretty complex. Aftertaste is very nice as well with an enjoyable hop bitterness from the alpha acids and a creamy, vanilla-y and lactosey sweetness that works out well and somehow avoids a 'creamsicle' like flavour somehow, even with a ton of orange and mango notes - those seem much stronger, especially on the finish, but the malts are nice as well and provide a good backbone for all the flavours here. Overall, a very nice beer - great to sample and shows very well for the style - still bitter, shows great sweetness, but the hops, fruit and lactose dominate in a nice way - great even for a 'creamsicle' hater like me and great from my home state of Michigan! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 23-October-2022 for US$5,49 sampled at my house here in Washington on 17-January-2023.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Drafting Table. Pours a deep brown with a finger of beige head that dissipates quickly. Lots of vanilla cinnamon aromas with oak, whiskey and dark chocolate all present. Palate is very similar with lots of real cinnamon flavors and lingering peppery rye whiskey notes. Oak and pepper on the finish with warming alcohol and lingering cinnamon with a vanilla note underneath. A bit thin on the palate, but flavors are there.