Bottle - Bacony with some dark fruit and finishes with smoke. Clear mahogany with a rich beige head. Taste has some chocolate, dark fruit, toasted malts and a smokey dry finish. This beer is nice as it has much more going on than just the smoke, the chocolate I get at the front is very surprising.

Cask at Tap & Barrel, Olympic Village
Near black, with generous compact head. The aroma is mild, lightly sour. Lean body, soft, lowly carbonated; the flavor is very chocolatey, much better than ash-forward sister beers. Correct bitterness. Light lactose feeling, light residual sweetness.
On cask, very enjoyable!

Bottle - Caramel sweetness and some grape and berry notes. Clear brownish copper with a thin brown head. If only it tasted as it smelt. Orange notes, with some thick caramelThe sweetness isn’t as well rounded and the bitterness is a bit too much. This has the bones for a great beer, and it may need some time to mellow.

Cloudy amber color with small head. Aroma of overripe fruits, some alcohol, glue. Smooth mouthfeel, full bodied, moderately sweet; anonymous cardboardy malt flavor, with a touch of liquorice, strong bitterness, chicory bitterness in the end, and a dusty feeling.
Messy, difficult to drink.

Bottle from Boundary Crossing, Vancouver
Deep blond color with small head. Mild malt aroma with light paper impression. Dry mouthfeel; pronounced malt flavor, but not exciting, quite round, but again some paper; reasonable bitterness, with no grassy hops.
Either old, or very imprecise.

Bottle - Vintage 2011 - Sweet vanilla, wheat some barrel notes and funk. Clear copper with a thin white head. Sweet vinous with wheat and oak notes. Some booze in the finish that is almost a bit sour. Not bad.

2017-04-18, bottle, 4-4-5-2-8=23
Hazy amber color. Initially it has a soapy smell, then it shows a load of vegetables. Thin body, mild caramel flavor, some dish soap, celery.
Not a good one. It wasn’t special when fresh, got worse with the years.

2013-12-30, bottle, 6-5-6-3-12=32
Dark amber color, clean, with large compact head. Some malt and caramel aroma, with a perfumy and buttery impression. Correct body strength, lean mouthfeel; simple malt flavor with just light nutty feeling; ordinary bitterness; modest sweetness.
Alcoholic, but not a barley wine; still, it’s clean and drinkable

Bottle from Legacy Liquor, Vancouver
Dark brown color; medium sized head, not very persistent. The smoke aroma is deep, persistent, with the campfire and smoked ham character of the Aecht Schlenkerla Märzen from which this one clearly takes inspiration; there is also some wood oven bread. The mouthfeel is dry; dark caramel flavor, with some darker, burnt sugar; strong smoke presence, smoked ham, light ashes; correct bitterness. The final is a bit too dry and ashy.
Remarkably close to the original.

Poured from 650mL bottle. Clear, copper colour with minimal tan head. Full smokey aroma and flavour of bacon and hickory. Medium body. A well done smoked beer.