[Bottle] Pours hazy gold with an off white head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, and peat. Flavor matches. Sweet and mildly astringent.

Pours an orange amber color with light white head. Abundant amounts of lacing weave a nice lattice pattern in the glass. Aroma is light oak, malt and blue cheese. I kid you note, the aroma smells like some right blue cheese. Taste ALSO matches this as well. there is some caramel malt backing, but all an all, it seems a bit lop-sided. An okay balrley wine.

Pours an orange-amber color with a HUGE frothy white head, that fades slowly and leaves lots of sticky lacing. Aroma is oak, pineapple, apricot, and grassy hops - all that combines into what my brother determined as blue cheese! The same goes for the taste......a high oaky taste, but not as hoppy as the aroma would make you think.

Bottle, 9.1%. OK grassy hop aroma. Cloudy dark amber colour. Small stable tan head. Good flavour, very malty and quite smoky. Good alcohol level to balance the malt and give a good mouthfeel.

Courtesy of Gillard. 2007 vintage poured hazy copper with gold edges and thin white head. The aroma is peach and tangelo followed by some chewy malt sweetness, wood notes and just a bit of booze. The taste has bold notes of oak but not too much. Next to the wood are chewy sticky malts, solid pine hop flavor and pine hop bitterness. Yum. The varied notes are well matched creating a pleasing experience. This should only get better with age.