Growler at RBSG 2005. An amber beer with no head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of caramel and some fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of elderberries, bubblegum, caramel, and some grapefruit.

Draft at the Phoenixville location, July 2006. An orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malty with a light citrusy note. The flavor is very hoppy for a Belgian style beer, but also with nice spicy notes, and some fruits. The end is spicy and last for a long time, drying out the mouth. The alcohol leaves a slight note, but most importantly gives it a good body. Nice.

Bottle: Deep amber pour with a frustratingly immense, forthy beige head. Aroma is a complexity of spices, most noteable are ginger, cloves and nutmeg. Taste is spicey as well with some floral grassey notes, more ginger and cloves, and some bitters. Even a bit tangy. Dry floral and spicey finish. Thanks DocLock.

Tap at barcade - starts out promising, with a very dark purple, heady pour, and a full aroma of peaty, scotch ale goodness - however, the body is far too thin - the caramel, vanilla, smoked malt and dark fruits are all there, but they just don’t interact in the right ways, as if the various elements af the beer are at war with one another, rather than coming together in the harmonious way that they should - all fight for control, but none win out, leaving a flabby beer that doesn’t satisfy on the palate.

75cl bottle at White Horse, Parons’ Green from the Burgundian Babblebelt. Dark brown colour with ruby edges. Aroma of whisky malt. Great spicey malt/hop/whisky flavours in mouth. Bit thin in mouth on palate. Alcohol is harsh on finish. Some nice toffee/coffee flavours.

Clear golden body with a small white head. Sweet caramel aroma with a slight candy sugar hint. Sweet candi sugar flavor with some caramel in the end.

Nitro pint at Hop Devil Grill on 1/12/07
Medium-low clarity in this deeply brown-black guinness-like body. Light tan head is creamy, wet and well-retained, but leaves only moderate lacing.
Coffee and black malt tar/ashiness give an initial jolt in the nose, but soft vanilla cream and minerals take over. Softer roast makes a crescendo, climaxing with a bit of leafy, marginal hops and a pinch of bakers chocolate. Buttercream and toffee sit sweetly on the finish as the roast recedes. No alcohol noted, medium amount of aroma for a nitro beer.
Wet and chocolatey at first, the black malt halts the sweetness, giving a dry, ashen flavor and combining with the base malts to produce more light cofee sweetness. Buttercream and definite sourness emerges midway through and the sticks. Not overly watery, and quite sweet for a dry stout, with a bit of stickiness. Unfortunately, the sourness is a bit much, as is the heavy butteriness. Nice that it’s got a lot of flavor for a nitro, low gravity stout, but the butteriness has got to go.