Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cloudy copper, big beige head. Lots of coffee in the aroma, bitter coffee ground, and some light fruit and yeasty cereals. The base dubbel is pretty lost, and hard to find. Hints of fruit, and dry dubbel style cereals and light metal, and minerals. But the coffee dominates, and even though it’s quite nice, doesn’t mingle well because of its overpowering nature on the beer.

Smooth. Like velvet.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

S: vanilla - liquid smoke - prunes A: deep dark brown body - fast-dying tan head T: cream - brewed coffee - earthy finish P: rich sugars - toffee - milk chocolate O: nicely complex - rich throughout - nice for season (as it gets cooler) 16 ounce can - Pharmacy Bottle & Beverage: Cary, North Carolina - purchased: 11-June-2023 - canned: 27-May-2022? - US$4,00 - sampled: 30-September-2024

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

S: biscuits - vanilla - bread A: crisp coppe body - fast-dying head T: yeast - crisp grain - earthy P: cereal - rustic - specialty grains O: big lager notes - clean-drinking - heavy on malts 16 ounce can - Pharmacy Bottle & Beverage: Cary/Raleigh, North Carolina - purchased: 11-June-2023 - US$3,50 - sampled: 12-August-2024

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Notes from 8/25/18 Medicine bottle from Bruisin’Ales. Poured into a Rare Vos glass. Opaque, slippery, dark yellow brew with a tall white, but quickly wilting eaten away head. Obvious smells of green & white pepper, but not as bold as I was hoping for. Cereal, faint lemon, veg, pithy lime. Taste is weak pepper & starchy grains. Carbonation is strong at first, but falls fast, turning the brew soupy & a bit difficult. Mild to moderate grain sweetness, leaving a bit of an itch in my throat. It’s okay. CBC made(makes?) a peppercorn brew that I couldn’t stop ordering pints of in the moment. All the extra grains in this just make it a bit mushy. Raw amaranth... well then.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Notes from 10/15/18 Bottle from Tasty Beverage in Asheville. Stubby pint glass. Brown on black. Minimal head. Toast, toffee, grease, dark fruit. Fruity, black patent, thin, half sour, light oxidation, bourbon finish. A fruitier, less layered sour bruin. Can't do more then one.

Mostly clear dark amber body small foamy off white head. Spicy herbal floral aroma. Spicy herbal floral perfumy flavor. Medium body moderately low carbonation. 7/4/7/4/15 3.7

Mostly clear golden body small foamy white head. Spicy floral honey aroma. Spicy honey floral fruity flavor. Medium full body moderately high carbonation. 7/3/8/4/16 3.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle pours out cola brown topped with a tan head. Nose is coffee forward some light pitfruit and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice roast coffee pitfruit and spice.

Dark brown body medium foamy tan head. Fruity toffee caramel aroma. Red twizzler fruity caramel flavor. Full body moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/3/15 3.6