Bottle. Pours black. Peanut butter, chocolate, brandy, booze, heavy booze, vanilla, little grape, lots of peanut butter, lots of nutty vanilla barrel stuff. Oily body. Hefty. Pretty good.

I purchased a 16 oz can at the local craft beer store two weeks ago. Never got sold entirely on the NE style thing but there have certainly ones I have liked, particularly when they are imperials. My ABGB snifter has been taken down from the cabinet for this sampling, I make the pour. A hazy orange body certainly followed by a stupendous head of orange-tan foam, something I have never seen before. The scent is a decent combination of citrus in general, oranges specifically and pine. The drink is, well, it is pretty fine in the style. Cedar, sweet oranges, crackers, citrus, a decent amount of hops, all with an amount of bitterness and certainly with a lot of presence, an aspect of the high ABV, I am convinced. This brew is more of a hybrid between WC and NE in my opinion and it works. Tasty.

A relatively expensive pint can for an IPA from the local craft beer store. Maybe they know something I do not. NE style, still worth a sampling, time to do that. I open the can and lift into my New Belgium globe glass. I see an impenetrable, gold-orange body with a persistent head of pillowy, totally white foam. I have the say the scent is not bad, sweet tropical and citrus with an offsetting presence of hops. And the drink follows that fairly closely, oranges, grapefruit, some dankness, marmalade, cedar, a mango sweetness and dry crackers. A substantial sensation, the ABV is flexing. Okay moving into pretty decent, the beer is better than its throwaway name.