Can - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of vanilla, coffee, milk sugar, lactose and cocoa - med body

Draft at brewery. Dark brown, black color. Small creamy beige head. Roasted malt is redolent of coffee and oats. Smooth and creamy with sweet cocoa notes. . Easily drinkable and quite tasty.

But heavy on the charcoal acidity but overall a solid impy with intriguing calvados presence.

Bottle courtesy of hackobock. Pours black with a small mocha head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, burnt caramel, vanilla fudge, charred wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, caramelized apples, raisins, moist soil and calvados alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, tiny sour, malty and fruity. mouthfeel is soft, round, astringent, tiny tart, tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Fin ish is sweet, bitter and tiny sour with roasted malts, burnt caramel, vanilla fudge, charred wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, tart apples, moist soil, soot, charcoal and calvados alcohol. Bit heavy on the charcoal acidity but still quite solid.

Bottle - Pours dark brown tan head - nose/taste of rum, burnt brown sugar, caramel, oak, toffee - medium body.

Bottle - Pours brown tan head - nose/taste of gin, 7UP, caramel, lime, oak and toffee - medium body

Draft - pours black tan head - nose/taste of soured oak, roast chocolate, vanilla and sour light vinegar tartness - medium body -well balanced

Can. Pours a cloudy really bright orange color with a small white head. A light meaty and citrus nose. Caramel, bitter hops, green, big perfume oily hops. This is a sort of odd one, meaty green hops. A bit of heat and higher alcohols. Hmm. OK. Lots to like, needs dialed in. I like the can. The alcohol is a real distraction. I like it overall though.

22oz bottle #245 of 480, bottled Feb 10, 2015, drunk 11/28/15.
Clear black body has a poorly retained beige gead atop.
Very nice nose, soft, mellow and with a lovely vanilla and crunchy coffee bean. Easygoing milk chocolate and very light caramel. No alcohol or flaw.
Toasted malt, bittersweet chocolate, vanilla and cool, 8 hour old coffee throughout a slightly oily, rather watery body. Still there is a decent malty sweetness and it’s quite clean. Some buttery notes linger, with milk chocolate and very low bitterness. Low carbonation, some tighter bubbles would be appreciated but still a fine, drinkable beer.