Draft at Lucky Baldwin. A brown beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of malt and caramel as well as a light touch of alcohol. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of caramel and medium notes of brown sugar, leading to a dry bitter and caramel finish. Good body.

From tap. Pours dark brown with small redish glare. Roasted malt and slight hoppy spiced aroma. Flavour starts spiced hoppy but also holds a slight roasted malt base. Goes quite bitter and hoppy into the finish.

Draft. Mahogony beer with a light cream-colored head. Slight citrus aroma with caramel. Caramel, citrus, and light earth flavor. Medium body. Lingering caramel, rich malt, light citrus. Nice malt flavorwithout overpowering. Good beer.

On tap at the Oldsmar Tap House. Served up cold in the tumbler with clear deep copper body, tan head and spotty lacing. The aroma is faint (thanks to the serving temperature) with semi sweet roasted malts and little else. The taste is in stark contrast to the nose with big brash bold roasty. I get malt sweetness and rich malt roastiness meeting up with some fruity esters. A pine hop bitterness builds along with the roastiness masking some of the sharp pine flavor leaving an increasingly near vague hop bitterness into the finish. The beer is too heavy on the fruity esters with a nearly cherry cough syrup experience by mid glass consumption.

Pours a murky, cloudy, dark brown/maroon, with a small light tan head. Smells kind of sweet, with a noticeable vanilla presence to go along with the dark fruit and malts. Kind of dug the nose. Alot of caramel malt, vanilla, and dark fruit comprise most of the flavor characters here. Pretty standard scotch ale in the taste, but certainly solidly done. A little bit woodsy in the finish and then leaves a sweet fruity aftertaste. Not bad.