Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, oatmeal, graininess, molasses, a bit of pitted fruits and a heavy note of vanilla and icing sugar here. Medium-bodied; Relatively rich malts and oats show at first with a big molasses and pitted fruit set of flavours with some light alcohol towards the end and a strong vanilla finish. Aftertaste shows a lot of earthy, graininess from the malts with a big roastiness, almost a burnt note with some coffee at the end as well, but a lot of rich, robust notes dominate here and don't provide much sweet balance, especially at the end. Overall, a nice rich and very roasty, earthy and grainy beer with a lot of earthiness and some rustic quality, but there is a dose of sweetness from vanilla and cream to temper the flavours somewhat. Overall, a nice deeper stout with a lot of rich notes, especially from the oats, malt and earthiness, but also from some molasses and pitted fruits. Nice to sample, especially in the colder months, even far removed from the really cold areas of the UP of Michigan! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Merchant's in Dearborn, Michigan on 10-December-2018 for US$2,79 sampled at my house here in Washington in February 2019.

Sample during the It Would Brighton MI Birthday If Yoopers Could Lake It To This Tasting #2! event on 09/11/2021.

Can from Livonia Liquor. Pour a hay, juice-like gold orange with no head. Passionfruit, guava and citrus rind and pith on the nose. More of the same on the palate. Some tart and sweet citrus flavors, more tropical fruit. Tropical fruit skin bitterness on the finish.

12oz can c/o Anndiesel. Pretty solid classical West Coast IPA tendencies. Cool, crisp Simcoe tone, smoothed out by the Mosaic, Citra somewhere in the middle. Has a somewhat oily, resinous tone. OK.

12 ounce bottle from Tadych's Iron Mountain, 7/2/21. Don't know what time it is by but the lights are low. Slightly hazy orange, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of grapefruit, pale malt, honey, citrus. Taste is grapefruit, mango, tangerine, pale malt. Juicy, low low low bitterness. Solid. I'm glad that I met it, but it didn't blow my mind.