Super sweet IPA, very non traditional. I love it.

It's just enough punch to make it delicious.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, two to three centimetre tall off-white and deeper tan head that fades fairly quickly but leaves a thin layer on the sides of the glass. Aroma of nice and robust roasted malts with some grainy, nutty and bready aspects, but there is also a good deal of tart scents from the cherries and a kick of pure fructose from the fruits here as well, at least in the nose - very nice. Full-bodied; Deep roasty flavour from the malts here shows through with a lot of earthiness and some nutty, herbal and pungent almost toasted malts with some bitterness from a more molasses and treacle like finish in the flavour with a ton of residual sugars and slight hit of alcohol noticeable at the end. Aftertaste is rich, very robust, showing a bunch of cherry candy notes but also some deeper malt notes and a lot of earthiness here that has some pungency, but is fairly smooth, sweet and rich, even for the style. Overall, a very nice, super strong and rich beer that has a sort of porter vibe with some sweet stout notes of course, but also a hint of Imperial status in terms of the malt and molasses/deep sugars, but this ends with a slight tartness and very fruity bite at the end - very nice throughout and showing a lot of different notes throughout. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Phillips 66 (gas station) Mini Mart in Spearfish, South Dakota on 26-June-2020 for US$9,99/twin pack (as the candy is sold, too!) sampled at my house here in Washington some two+ years after purchase after the other one in the pack exploded while being cellared, this seemed to have a long time left that could be aged, but I took no risks and drank it right away (upon the other one bursting) on 25-August-2022.