Wow, I'm glad this is a dark IPA, I find them just a little more tolerable than a straight up IPA of various styles. Pour is a beauty, like stout or porter. Nice tannish head that fades rapidly. Nose is mild IPA but with a mild dark hint on the olfactory. First taste is certainly IPA, but it has this dark attitude about it. Yes the IPA bitterness is not in yer face and much of the bitter aspect seems to come from the roasted darkness. But hey, it may be just my dark beer mind playing tricks on me, hehehh. Yea really, bitter yes, but not rude ass IPA bastardly bitter LoL. I've actually tasted some other dark beer styles that were significantly more bitter than this, fer sher. It even has a good level of co2 that helps me forget this is IPA based. Not as good as Beaver Brewing I.Porter.A, Upland Komodo Dragonfly Black IPA or even Full Pint Deuce India Brown Ale; but its pretty considerably good by my standards for an IPA!

Can pours clear reddish orange brown 231. Very little head, just some pond skum. Quite sweet on the nose, with an addition feel of ropey leather character on the olfactory. Very malty taste on the uptake, some sweetness breaking thru. Easy manners yet the sweetness gets on my nerves a bit. Just maybe some earthiness comes thru in the middle. Some odd leather and perhaps a touch of peat mixing with the sweetened malt. Sweetness at the end of every gulp. Not enough to be cloying, but certainly more than is needed. Hides its 6% very well.

From a cheap two buck can. This stuff pours clear pale with no head. Node is very light sweeter apple cider. Taste is apple cider mostly and yes a little sweet. Certainly not dry LoL. Now I'm getting some vanilla in the backdrop. Good level of carbonation. Maple getting stronger as the session continues. Maple begins to show and vanilla is really getting apparent. Not as sweet as that woodchuck stuff, but its getting there. Different. Just a little worried about how the sugar will affect my beer gut.

2$ bottle. Nice black pour, very little head, immediately fades to nil. Nose is a giveaway to sweet milk stout. Medium strong initial roasted oatmeal stout taste. Bitter semi-sweet baking chocolate and maybe some mild coffee. A little strong and boozy, yet retains the stout experience without getting too much of that imperial aspect in it. Finishes with some molasses and dried whisky soaked fruit. Somewhat mouth coating feel in the end.