Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
.3L dimpled mug at the brewery - dark amber pour - creamy head - presents with a lot of dark bread, raisin, and caramel flavors up front - a slight acidity and bitterness breaks through the malt richness through the middle, adding interesting depth to the raisin flavors - finishes with lingering dark bread - rich but quaffable - I like it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
.3L dimpled mug at the brewery - clear medium amber - creamy head - malt-forward and medium-sweet, but still light and crushable - some mild caramelized sugars, raisin, and cherry make way for light acidity and moderate hop bitterness - finishes with lingering caramelized malt sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
.5L dimpled mug at the brewery - light hazy gold with a thick, creamy head - clean but rich light maltiness up front, followed by mild acidity and an herbal and grassy bitterness - mostly clean, but it has a very mild sourness way in the back that keeps me from pushing the score higher - this is squashed by a return of light honey sweet maltiness through the finish - it's decent.