UPDATED: NOV 24, 2023 2013 bottle. Pours a murky brown color with aroma of caramel, toffee, and dark fruit. Caramel and toffee sweetness with notes of raisin and fig. Really nice beer.

Bottle. Pours amber brown with a thin creamy off-white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, toffee, dark fruit and yeast. Flavor of sweet caramel, candi sugar, toffee, raisins, dark fruit, and had notes of vanilla.

Bomber from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Pours a hazy dark reddish brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of caramel, toffee, booze, and an almost oaky note. The taste is toffee, caramel, raisin, strong raisin and stone fruit in the finish, booze, a very faint earthy note. Medium bodied, low carbonation, moderately hot.

Bottle shared by BVery on the APN bus. Wow! DuClaw kicks some serious ass in the high ABV realm. Hazy light brown pour with a tan head. Sweet malty nose, awesome taste - boozy, caramel, toffee and awesome. Will be looking for this again!

UPDATED: DEC 29, 2013 Bomber via trade with burgy - thanks man! Wow - this is awesome. Hazy rich amber pour. Very rich - a lot of barrel aged barley wine elements in this. Slick and carmely - fruity - boozy - wood and bourbon. Fantastic!

August 2012. Bottle. Amber color with a white head. Aromas of malt, dark fruit and caramel. Flavors of fruit, spice with some caramel. The alcohol is showing on the finish.

Blonde coloured body with a bright glow and a thick, three centimetre just off-white head. Aroma of alcohol, sugar, malt, bright hops and a bunch of yeast - very nice. Full-bodied; Strong wheat and yeast flavour up front with a lot of alcohol and sugars noticeable, some lighter grassy and herbal notes on the back end though. Aftertaste shows a lot of character with the yeast coming through the most, some coriander seed and curacao noticeable and a hint of hops at the tail end. Overall, a very nice beer and one definitely worth sampling - especially if you are at one of the brewpubs! I sampled this pint [snifter] on draught at the Bowie, Maryland brewpub location on 28-April-2012 for US$6.00.

Bottle at a recent bottle share... Poured deep reddish with a thin, beige head. This was quite sweet. However it still had complexity and definite aspects that made it a Belgian Ale. Notes of vanilla, figs, dates, and other dark fruits, some yeast notes and then even more sweetness in the finish.

22 oz bottle - pours hazy caramel orange with medium, fizzy pop head, white-tan, mostly diminishing. Creamy lacing. Huge aromas of sweet malt, sticky vanilla, dried figs, raisins, touch of orange peel. Taste is more of the same, but more orange on the finish. Bit of burn. Reminiscent of Grand Marnier. Sticky with big sweet malt. Pretty good, but likely much better with a couple years age in the bottle on it.

Poured from a bomber into a brandy snifter. Pours a meh brown with little head and zero lacing. Hot aroma with all sorts of warm dark fruit. Mouthfeel is heavy and sticky as expected. Moderate carbonation gives it some tingle. Taste is Rich and luxurious. Dark fruit, berries of all sorts, some banana, Belgian funk, candi sugar and cinnamon. Very good beer. I was worried that it would have too much booze flavor but it didn't. I highly recommend! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone