Bottle from a trade with cbkschubert. Thick, black pour with brown head. Milk chocolate and roasted malt aromas. Bittersweet milk chocolate flavor with dark roasted malt and hints of espresso. Slight alcohol burn. Full body with minimal carbonation and a silky mouthfeel. Very good. Thanks Craig.

22oz bottle from whole foods in SF
Appearance: Clear amber with a medium sized off white head and good lacing
Aroma: Pine and caramel
Taste: Dusty caramel and bitter pine resin
A nice solid dipa

Draught @ 1 Mission Street, San Francisco

Pours light yellow with a small head. Aroma of fruits, some spicy notes, malts and wheat. Taste is wheaty and slightly spicy with some malty notes, fruits and yeast. Finish is slightly hoppy and malty with some spicy notes. Okay, quite easy to drink blonde.

Bottle. Pours black with brown head. Nose/taste of dark chocolate, roast coffee, vanilla bean, dark fruit, plum and roast black malt. Medium body/slightly lighter.

Tap. Pours clear light amber with a small off-white head and good lacing. Aroma is of grapefruit with notes of pine and some astringency. Flavor is also grapefruit. Some sweetness apparent but no real malt flavors. Finish is medium bitter. Quite nice.

From tap. Pours dark roasted malty and liqourice. Bitter and liqourice flavoured. Dark chocolate and roasted dark malty. Bitter and roasted malty. Dark malty and chocolate, light liqourice.

Tap @ Hopping Pig, San Diego. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, vanilla, chocolate, notes of fruit and hops.

12oz bottle pours very dark with dark brown head. The aroma offers up black licorice mixing with dark rasted malts, some molasses and a faint toffee like note. Wow, I’m digging this flavor with its dark roasted malts, black licorice, some molasses covered chocolate brownie and then rolling into burnt maltiness. This is rich and yummy and but ends a little under whelming for the style as it is thin and picks up a touch of malt astringency. Over all a very tasty brew.