UPDATED: MAY 23, 2024 Aroma is strong/close to pure caramel and dark malts. The flavor is milk chocolate, dark malts and an acidic/salted caramel sweet/slightly alcoholic finish.

UPDATED: APR 22, 2024 Can from Bridge Tap house. Pours black with a khaki head. Leaves a truckload of lacing in the glass. Lots of bourbon and chocolate on the nose and tongue which is almost torpedoed by the vanilla which cuts through like a machete. Nice creamy mouthfeel.

UPDATED: APR 20, 2024 Pint can, 2022 vintage. Caramel aroma with notes of chocolate, sea salt, roasted malt, bourbon, vanilla and oak. Pours deep brown with half a finger of mocha brown head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with caramel, sea salt, chocolate and roasted malt as well as having a rich, full body and sticky sweet mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Decadent and delicious.

UPDATED: MAR 20, 2024 16oz can from Antioch Fine Wine with a '22 can date, cellared 18 months and served at cellar temperature. Black pour with a tan head. Aroma has caramel, barrel, coffee, and cacao nibs. Taste is smooth and sweet; caramel, barrel, certainly roast, saltiness, and tons of cacao nibs. Good depth and solid thickness. Some alcohol presence. Finishes to the sweet side of bittersweet. 14.6

UPDATED: MAR 12, 2024 Can. Pours a pitch black hue with a medium tan head. A big sweet nose, caramel, roast, sweet toffee. The flavor is sweet caramel drenched cinnamon roll, lighter roasted malts, bourbon. No heat. The sweetness works because the base is so good.

UPDATED: FEB 20, 2024 Canned, 473 ml, shared with others. Black with tan head. Caramel and milk chocolate, sweetish with some bitterness. Vanilla. Just a tad thinner than expected.

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2024 Can from Lone Star. Luggage ride home. Low-ball. Frothy, extra sticky, dark brown, opaque can pour @home. Low-ball glass, not too cold. Caramel, vanilla & cocoa upfront like a freshly baked cookie. Hint of fruitiness & amaretto in the air. Taste is bittersweet & slightly astringent. Cookie dough & Asprin bitterness with a touch of bourbon sharpness to cut it. Sweet n smokey caramel with a bit of cocoa & burnt salt on the tail. A touch too sweet. Quite good.

UPDATED: FEB 10, 2024 Can from BevMo! in Palo Alto, CA. Aroma is chocolate, vanilla, booze, caramel. Taste is smooth chocolate with spiked bourbon. Drank from a Philz coffee cup at the SFO airport.

UPDATED: FEB 5, 2024 16oz can. Pous a black color with a tan head and nice lacing. Aroma of vanilla, roasted malt and caramel. Taste of vanilla, caramel, roasted malt, coffee and brown sugar. Some bitterness that lingers into the finish. Fairly full body, tasty with nno real hint of the ABV. Very nice.

UPDATED: JAN 28, 2024 Pours a deep brown black from can.. salted caramel, vanilla, oak, quite good, not overpowered