Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg pour at NH Brewfest. Appearance is opaque black pour with small off-white head and fair lacing. Aroma is deeply roasted malt with hints of coffee and chocolate. Taste is same as aroma--more medium roasted sweet maltiness with mild coffee/chocolate. Palate is medium bodied with average to lively carbonation with pleasant bitter finish. Overall, this fires on all cylinders.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, batch 1, a generous gift from Airforcehops, drunk 10/15/15.
Medium-sized tan head slowly recedes to cover/ring, but is coaxed out again with every swirl. Clarity is medium and despite spending 4 months in the fridge, there’s very little that’s dropped out, thus showing it to be fairly-to-heavily filtered. Kind of disappointing, but oh well.
Vanilla, fresh and strong is very evident in the nose. Aside from that, plenty of baker’s chocolate, light tobacco and hints of coffee come through. No booziness in the nose initially, with only a bit coming through with warming and breathing. Overall, aroma-wise, the vanilla’s a bit too dominant, but it’s not over-hopped or a boozy mess, so there are pros and cons.
Flavor wise, I’m impressed at the texture for a seemingly filtered beer. Rich, soft, creamy/silky and sweet, but yet not cloying in the least. The vanilla, of course, takes a big role, while chocolate, light ashiness and again, rather minimal coffee (fine with me) are noted. Even with warming, the alcohol is never problematic and the carbonation is quite appropriate, being neither too fizzy/forced nor too low. So it’s confusing here, it certainly dosent have the traits of a heavily filtered beer (fizzy, loose carbonation, thin texture, sugary finish) but yet why was there nothing in the bottom of the bottle? While I didn’t get any acetaldehyde like Mike, there certainly is a bit of raw ethanol that emerges after it warms. Perhaps that’s what he’s getting? Could very well be green apple, though I don’t know how you’d pinpoint that through all of this malt, vanilla and coffee. Anyways, acetaldehyde and ethanal certainly do have a much larger chance of being exposed with heavier filtration, so that works with my theory.
Anyways, to wrap up yet another rambling, ridiculous review (but hey, why am I on this site if not to indulge myself in such behavior?), this was a good beer doing a lot of things right (good attenuation, no sharp booze, no resin, good texture) and a few things that could use some work (way too much vanilla, could use a touch more complexity, some light alcohol notes in places, maybe a touch too sweet). Seems like an unfiltered version of this that was thrown in to a barrel would be incredibly, incredibly good. That would help cut some of the sweetness, add a bit more complexity and take some of the focus off the vanilla. Sounds like that’s in the works, so consider me excited.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours bright gold into an English pint. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Resin and pine aromas. Soft to medium bodied with bread and hay upfront turning to pine and grapefruit in the lasting finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Whole Foods Nashua Slightly hazy light golden color frothy white head. Sweet bready pils with a solid hit of spicy floral hops to counter. Nice blond!

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle thanks to Neil. Pours hazy golden orange, huge off-white head, sticky lacing. Aroma is citrus, lemon, herbal, lemongrass notes. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, nice and dany herbal citrus. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Solid and a bit out of the ordinary.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Growler from the source. Pale cloudy yellow in color with lasting, bubbles head. Aroma is cereal grain with a noticeable citrus rind aroma. Real fresh citrus aroma.

The body leans more a medium rather then light. Nice wheat backbone with the citrus rind giving the mouthfeel a very dry texture after the swallow. I would suggest that this brewery never puts bottles of this into distribution. Make this brewery only. Simply because what makes this great is how fresh it is. If bottles sit on a shelf for any length of time it loses the great quality that it has. Very nicely done for the style.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at Whole Foods in Nashua Slightly hazy deep yellow color with a decent off white head. Fruity spicy hop aroma and flavor with a solid bready caramel maltiness. Plenty of that hull melon character, fruity, meaty, almost smokey, that I’ve decided I don’t care for. Nice to try but not the beer for me.

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

Sample from the Granite State Brewers Festival 7/25/15 Rich chocolate and light roast with faint earth and pitted fruits. One of my favorites of the day.

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

500ml bottle in trade with AirForceHops-thanks Chris. Lt brown-black. A-cocoa-dk malt. T-roasty/ashy/cocoa-dk malt, 2nd earthy hops. Chewy mouthfeel.

Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops. Dark chocolate vanilla silky smooth. Wow.