How: Draught.
Where: Heartland Brewery Midwest, New York.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Lavender, wheat, spices, citrus.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Lavender, wheat, spices, fruit, citrus.

How: Draught.
Where: Heartland Brewery Midwest, New York.
Appearance: Hazy amber colour with a small off-white head.
Aroma: Fruit, malt.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, fruit, some caramel.

How: Draught.
Where: Heartland Brewery Midtown, New York.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Malt, grass, some spices.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, spices, some hops.

Deep brown coloured body with a nice tan head, about a centimetre tall that has faded down from two at the first glance from the pour. Aroma of smoked meats, mushrooms, light malt, a touch of specialty grains and some caramelised sugars near the end. Medium-bodied; Strong smoked malt flavours with a touch of peat, but this really is about the smoked meat and mushroom, earthy notes with a light sweetness near the end and a big hit from the yeast and alcohol towards the finish. Aftertaste shows more of the grain and more pungent malt flavours, but some light sweetness and a dash of complexity from the yeast strain and some dryness from the malts with a good funky mushroom earthy flavour at the tail end. Overall, a good and smokey beer that is full of character and balances quite well with my meal over the course of an hour or so. I sampled this twelve ounce pour on draught at Momofuku Ko in New York, New York on 30-March-2012 celebrating my wife's birthday, before we had any kids at all, for US$8,00 while the meal was considerably more expensive.

Cask @ Blind Tiger, New York. Pours dark golden with an offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light caramel, fruity hops, some strawberry, light piney. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, malt, caramel, fruity hops, strawberry, pine. Medium body, soft carbonation, sweet and light bitter finish. 280418

Tap @ Heartland Empire State. Dark brown. Roasted malts, coffee, burnt coffee beans, not sure if I got the honey, but pretty ok.

Tap @ Heartland Empire State. Clear golden. Malty, hay , fairly sweet, light grassy.

Tap @ Heartland Empire State. Dark brown. Roasted malt,s, cappuccino, choc, creamy, soft. First halfway decent Heartland beer so far.

Tap @ Heartland Empire State. Clear golden. Slightly malty, A bit of citric, soft, creamy. Some bitterness. Underwhelming. If you can't even get your ipa right...

Tap @ Heartland Empire State. Dark copper. Malty, bit of toasted malts, nutty.