Dark brown, no head. Medium nuttiness on the nose, a good spirit quality, sort of whiskeyish. On the palate, with a soft body, and the spirit comes in. It's a bit rounded, not bad, though the barrel isn't the greatest. Still, it comes together fairly well. I'd say the body is lighter than many top examples, but the base and treatment work well enough together.

500mL bottle, pours jet black with a tiny tan head. Aroma has plenty of whiskey barrels, medium roast, and a hint of cocoa. Flavour is light-to-medium bodied for an impie, with lots of boozy whiskey, dark sugars, molasses, and booze. Very boozy and hot, but has a nice smooth, oily malt character. Good but not refined.

Draught @ George Keeley, Manhattan (June 2024). Clear golden with a creamy off-white head, orangey aroma, low carbonation, medium bitter orange peel, floral hops, lightly piney, smooth thin body, long medium bitter finish. Smooth and floral.

Bottle split at Craft Beer Junction, thanks to Tips 18/10/23. Black with a khaki head that thins to a swirl. Nose is chocolate, mellow bourbon, caramel fudge, dried fruit rinds, dark malts. Taste comprises roast malts, cocoa sprinkle, toffee, bourbon nip, light spice. Full bodied, light oily feel, semi drying close with a balanced boost offered. Not bad.

On tap at the Double Windsor. Pours hazy yellow. Lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, little earthy, wet grain. Medium body. Fine.

can. mild flowery aroma that also have grapes in the aroma, green white wine grapes if I should gueess. The hops and the grapes make the aroma more IPA like than sour/wild like. practically no brett or the like in the aroma, not very wild. But quite fairly okay nevertheless. As with many sours, aroma is not sour, but flavor is. Sourness here is a very gentle wild ale sourness with a lot of wine grapes added and also with quite a distinct US hoppy layer to the flavors. There is some subtle wildness going on in the flavor, but it stays very clean. This is sort of a bit like a sour IPA if that is a style. Tasty and refreshing, and if you want some more agressive hops with your sour, you might like this one.

3-16-23 Craft + Carry NYC

Very hazy golden and straw coloured body with a nice-ish two centimetre tall pure white head that fades pretty quickly and doesn't leave anything up top or on the sides. Aroma of honey, resin, grapefruit, pine and a lot of astringent, super pungent alcohol, metallic and deep bitterness - in the nose, at least. Medium-bodied; Very rich and super astringent alcohol and strong bitterness from the alcohol, metal and strong malt components, with some softer orange and grapefruit notes, but the astringency and pungent dry bitterness is strongest. Aftertaste shows almost no malt components with no real body detected, only a touch of flowers and dryness, but the pungency and strength of the alcohol is very noticeable throughout, not showing any signs of letting up, and is really the only strong flavours here at all. Overall, this was far from what I was expecting, and is very poor overall - there is haze and an unfiltered quality, but literally everything else is poor - no malt backbone, no fruits, no complexity, no sugars, just a thin, astringent and pungent alcohol bite that shows metallic, deep flavours and nothing nice. Not worth trying to find, even if you like their music...glad to have this after leaving New York today, but not worth bringing back down, even easily on the train like I did! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Whole Foods in New York (NoMad, 28th Street), New York on 03-December-2022 for US$4,99, canned on 08-November-2022 with the tagline 'Cuatro' on the bottom and sampled at my house here in Washington after returning from New York again, on 16-January-2023.