Very hazy golden and straw coloured body with a very large, three to four centimetre tall off-white creamy tan head that stays afloat for a long time above the 90 per cent opaque glowing body - very nice looking! Aroma of super dense honey, sugars, mangoes, papaya, guava and melons, with some alcohol noticeable on the edges, but this smells SWEET! Full-bodied; Very rich, syrupy and sticky sweet resinous notes show strongly with a light bitterness from grass and resin with a light piney kick as well, but a lot of rich fruit notes really come through with melons, papaya and mangoes all here, but the end really is about the deep alcohol bite - this does show close to the posted ABV (I feel like it's closer to 9 per cent, so hidden a little bit) and the pungent sugars that aren't very cloying. Aftertaste is rich, pungent, deep and pretty good for the style with light actual bitterness, strong sugars, nice fruit notes and a lot of alcohol, with a tiny bit hidden. Overall, a strong (of course) beer, but a nice set of flavours with some complexities and pungencies, but nothing cloying or off-flavoured - good to sample, it's still not easy to drink sixteen ounces of this, but seemingly possible! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from The Perfect Pour in Elkridge, Maryland on 25-October-2022 for US$8,50 sampled at my house here in Washington on 11-December-2022.

Dose 0,473l: Schwarz, kräftige Trübung, viskos, eher flüchtiger brauner feinporiger Schaum; sehr würzige + kräftig malzige Nase, malzig-würzige Süße, dunkle/getrocknete Beeren, eher trockene Hopfennoten, kräftig Malz, dunkles Karamell, Vanille, kräftige Röstaromen, kräftig nussig, dunkle Schokolade, kräftig Kaffee, Mousse au Chocolate, malzig-würzige Bitterkeit; sehr würziger + eher trockener Körper, kräftige Röstaromen, Röstmalz, dunkles Karamell, dunkle/getrocknete Beeren, sehr cremig, dezente Kohlensäure, trockene Hopfennoten, Vanille, Zimt, kräftig nussig, Haselnussschalen, Kaffee, Kakao, dunkle Schokolade; trocken-würziger Nachgang