 ilovedarkbeer (844), Dallas, Texas, USA
May 29, 2008
Pours a pitch black murky color with some brown highlights. Looks like syrup. Head is medium sized and a honey brown color and looks like little caviar bubbles. Quickly shrinks to a ring. Nose is booze, dark fruit, chocolate, some coffee, and some bread. A really great aroma. Taste is dark fruits up front and then there is a finish of roasted malt and chocolate. Sweet but not overdone. What a well crafted beer that is very different from most ASAs.
nefarious (69), grand blanc, Michigan, USA
Dec 2, 2008 huge slow pour into a snifter. No head and a ginormous malt, sweet, chocolate, earthy and slight alcohol. This stuff is almost like a stout. Slight wood, raison, malt and alcohol. The alcohol is present at first but finished much better. Overall a another fine offering from DFH.
kcmo19 (71), Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Nov 30, 2008 Updated: Dec 1, 2008Heard about this beer from a friend visiting the Northeast. Since I’m a goon for cultural sideshows I decided the unique idea of aging the beer on mystic woods from South America was something I would lend my attention(and money) to. The smell is of a rich caramel and brazillian nut presence. Color is dark, and I mean dark earthen brown with a lightly brown tinged head. Taste consists of the most present "nut" brown flavor with a certain spice that must by the namesaken wood. Aftertaste leaves the taste of dark chocolate. Yum, the best brown ale to date for me. (Don’t let the ABV fool you, it puts a dent on a well accomplished drinker’s night)
ajwilliams (46), , Indiana, USA
Nov 30, 2008 I didn’t know what to expect with this, but I got a full-bodied silky smooth brew that looks as good as it tastes. Pours very dark with a healthy tan head. Aroma of coffee and maple. Flavor is caramel, coffee, roasted malts, some chocolate and maple. This is lighter than a stout, and it somehow completely masks the 12% alcohol except for the warmth. Really a great success of a beer.
luttonm (96), Seattle, Washington, USA
Nov 29, 2008 12oz bottle (and previously on tap). Rich, dead pour with minimal tan head. Molasses, port nose that is rich like the WWS. Taste is syrupy and rich with notes of brandy/bourbon booze, spice and that oily wood. Sticky vanilla bean (extract w/ booze?) finish with very nice warming, perfect match to the abv. Very refined and interesting (and I second nramsburg .. the New Yorker issue has a great recap of this beer’s provenance and inspired me to give it another try).
CapFlu (3353), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nov 29, 2008 (Bottle) Purchased at Brewery Creek in Vancouver for $5.25. Pours a lasting, creamy brown head atop an opaque body. Nose of molasses, deep chocolate malt, sweet cherries, vanilla, boubon, pear rind and leather. Very thick oily elixir, strong bourbon and wood flavour. Interesting and very impressive, imaginative beer. Amazing how DFH hides the high ABV so well. Nice. 7/5/7/3/15
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