Huge roast notes in this beer with the lager yeast. Easy drinking with a thin body ad low carbonation. But a bit of weird beer.

Dark copper, lacy. Medium body, flavorful, refreshing and balanced mouthfeel, good length. Bitter, almost dry. Roasty and hoppy, yeasty, woody. Nice for a change. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a deep brown color with a slight roasted malt aroma. Taste is similar, with a roasted malt flavor at the forefront, mixed with earthy malt. Overall a simple beer, easy drinking and dry.

On tap at the Ballast Point tasting room in Little Italy. Poured a black color with a small sized off white head. Roast, chocolate, and a little bit earthy.

Pour on tap at Woodman, dark brownish black pour with off white head, aroma brought notes of dark cocoa, roast, hints of earth into a bit of yeast, touch of grain, slight fruity notes as well. Taste is a big earthy, roasty and chocolate mix with a hint of spice, yeast, touch of grain into a bit of coffee, finishing bitter.

Trying to fulfill my Ballast Point fix since they hit WI. On tap at Champps Americana. Very dark brown pour, little head. Roasted malt and some pine in the nose. Some chocolate later. Taste has some roast, some chocolate . More bitter than sweet. Solid lager or dunkel. Tasty as all bp stuff. 13.8

Draft at mudville9 in TriBeCa NYC. Pours a dark black color. Has the consistency of a dark mild but taste almost like a porter/black iPa. Very flavorful. Very good

Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark brown with a beige tan head. Aroma is smoky? dark malt. Med body or nearly. Flavor is smoky, earthy dark malt. It’s a good lager, and some hop bitter pops out in the finish. Even a bit of chocolate.

Tap at the brewery. Pours clear dark brown with a medium, frothy beige head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is light roast malt, earthy and spicy hops, woody hop notes and prunes. Flavor is lightly bitter dark malt and fruits, light hops and bitterness with a dry finish. Light body and medium carbonation.

Draft. Pours brown with a beige head. Chocolate malts, light sweetness, some faint spicy hoppy notes, and cocoa chocolate notes in the sweetness. Not a California Common, but not bad.