Pours motor oil black into a tulip. Off-white medium head hugs rim. Fruity chocolate, toffee and coffee notes. Upfront dried fruit and chocolate with a lasting coffee finish. A little thin for an imperial.

Bottle: Poured a slightly hazy dirty yellow ale with a medium foamy head with average retention. Aroma of floral malt is quite powerful and very enjoyable. Taste is very refreshing with a nice dose of floral malt, Belgian yeast and a medium hoppy finish. Definitely not a great beer but a good golden Belgian ale that can be served as a refreshing drink during hot summer days.

750 bottle. Pours brown but comes out almost black. very dark but cannot see through it. Smell is present - Smacks (the cereal) with a fishy/oyster-like aroma in the background. Taste has a good roasty-chocolate aspect. A bit watery.

Bottle. Pours with a small head that lasts. Lots of bubbles shooting all around the beer. Color is amazing - thick reddish-orange with glowing edges. Can only make out shapes through it. Aroma is very present. There is definitly a sour aspect to it maybe more like a sweet tartness, cherry like. There is a huge creaminess to it. Some slight hop bitterness as well. Taste is similarly complex and balanced. Again that very present creaminess, tangerine flavor as well. Pretty much imagine a lactose fruit flavor.

7/13/06. Had it on tap at D.B.A last night. It was more abrasive on tap (even though for my friend it was very smooth). Lots of bitterness jumped out at me that got in the way of those great complex flavors I noted in the bottle. Also, didn’t have that creaminess present in the bottle.

2/25/07. This is still full of life, strong carbonation. The aroma has a brett character but not a fruity aspect like the original bottle. This seems to be a sign of brett with age. The creaminess and "tangerine" flavor are no longer present as well. However, there is a bit more of a light Belgian sweetness coming through.

Tap at open house, and again later from the bottle - kind of a burnt copper color, with a small ring of off-white lace - semi-dry aroma of roasted nuts, cookie dough, light cocoa - the flavor is even more dry than the aroma (surprising for the style, but not unpleasant at all) - smokey, with notes of toffee, hazelnuts - a little thin on the tail end, but otherwise a solid ale.

750ml bottle-pours a tall, foamy, light tan head. Color is hazy gold with plenty of effervescence. Aroma is grassy, hops. Taste is grassy. Well balanced light, mild malts and hops. Good hops presence, interesting, nice selection of hops. Good carbonation, good beer.

I think this was just a one-off? Anyways, I split a 750mL bottle with SuIIy on 4/27/06
Pop of the cap is heartening, as there is ample carbonation, but no gushing. The appearance shows fine aging, with a foamy, large, extremely-well retained white/off-white head that creates sheets of lace on the sides of the glass. Clarity is rather high, having let the sediment/yeast settle in the fridge for some time, but there certainly is plenty of sediment left on the bottom. Moderate amount of tiny bubbles rise about in the liquid.
Diacetyl is detected in the nose before anything else. Arg, not this again. Fortunately, the hoppiness does fight through it to give some herbal, wintergreen like freshness and bitter orange peel from the cascades. Zesty, leafy and quite dry, the oregano/dill-like herbal notes play on top of the restrained, mild Belgian yeast. White bread and just a touch of very light caramel sneak in behind the diacetyl, while more light hop derived fruitiness keeps things lively. Warming, thankfully allows some of the diacetyl to pass, but there is still a trace of butter, that, once detected, is difficult to get around, as much as I would love to just sniff in these gentle, but highly aromatic hops and clean yeast.
The flavor shows the diacetyl too, of course, but fortunately, the diacetyl is even more passing in flavor, after warming and breathing, coming out to just a touch of dry butterscotch on the end. Wintergreen, dill, oregano and light orange zest all burst forth on the tongue, carried on by a snappy, engaging and tight carbonation and finally smoothed out, somewhat, by medium-soft, vanilla-wafer-like maltiness. Fresh cut grass begins to build minor acidity/bitterness on end, but is well balanced with clean yeast and calcium carbonate-like notes. I like how they fermented this cool to reduce the phenols/esters and allow the hops freedom to roam. No alcohol in aroma or flavor. Carbonation is near-perfect, as is the unfiltered texture. I just wish there wasn’t any diacetyl present.....
Big thanks to FrumptyDumpty for the bottle!