Poured a deep black colour with a creamy, brown head. Nice lacing. To the nose we get cinnamon, vanilla, minimal ginger, coffee and cocoa. First swig was interesting. Probably the spiciest beer I’ve ever had. Flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, spicy pepper and coffee. Finish is warm, with almost too much cinnamon flavour. Drowns out everything else.

Golden ale from Michigan flavoured with coffee - an unlikely ingredient perhaps in blonde beer styles (though common in porters and stouts these days), but I had several other blonde ales with coffee and sometimes the combination works well. Medium thick, opening and thin, snow white, loose head on an initially clear but later misty yellow blonde robe with apricot tinge. Aroma of indeed coffee in a sugared kind of way but certainly recognisable as such, white chocolate, breakfast cereals, ripe pear, cherry blossoms in spring, ripe melon, vanilla extract and a persisting scent uncannily similar to Cécémel. Clean onset, sweet with a sourish but refreshing, mandarin-like side note, hints of pineapple and ripe pear, softishly carbonated; slick and thin, even rather watery mouthfeel. Sweet pale maltiness, notes of melon, pineapple and mandarin subtly continuing and accompanied with these odd Cécémel and white chocolate elements, with the coffee powder providing some mildly astringent spiciness in the end as well as a bit of dryness - much needed, because hops remain very understated and the faint bitterness which is present, seems to be generated more by the coffee than by hops. The lack of hops does not help the already thin and watery feel, but the overall flavours are admittedly fascinating, with the coffee behaving less spicy and bitter than expected - instead, this whole beer feels like a light, sweet, mellow, summery quencher with odd but pleasant aromatic effects. Quite distinct and enjoyable for what it intends to be.

12 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a clear yellow-gold color with an off-white head and great retention. Almost no lacing. Sweet chocolate and light coffee aroma. Like their Pumpkin beer, this S'mores version doesn't have much s'mores taste. It tastes like a regular Bean Flicker with some added vanilla and smoky notes and a little sweeter too. A little misleading, but still good. Medium-light body with medium carbonation. No bitterness.

12 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a pitch black color with a light tan head and good retention. A few spots of lacing. More spiced aroma versus stout aroma. The taste follows the nose: Fairly standard pumpkin pie spices in a mild stout base beer. A little thin for a stout. A nice change from regular pumpkin beers, but the stout is more color than flavor. Medium-light body. Medium carbonation. Not bitter. And the 7.5% ABV is warming, but mostly hidden.

12 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a hazy yellow-gold color with a white head and great retention. Good lacing. Coffee-forward aroma. The coffee flavor is very subtle, like a white stout, and I barely taste any pumpkin spices. Medium body and medium carbonation. Not bitter. Slightly sweet. An enjoyable beer, but not much of a pumpkin beer.