Pours barely translucent chocolate brown with a nice beige head. Aroma offers roast malt, caramel and toffee tones. Flavor features roast malt, toffee and chocolate tones, rather delicious. Mouthfeel presents fair body and fair fizz. Happy any anniversary!

22oz bottle 1/12/16 (Old Notes)-Pours amber with a decent sized head. Aroma of malt, toffee, caramel, and nutty. Taste of malts, slight chocolate, and nutty. This full bodied brew is a pleasant surprise.

"4 years later can’t taste the influence of the oak anymore. it was a pretty drinkable beer, but as the years have mellowed the already lower than normal hop prescence, it was good but nothing really special. maybe a different story when it was fresher.

Bottle from Aces and Ales. Pours a clear amber with no head. The aroma is faint wood and toast. Medium mouth with a sweet roast, light caramel, lingering sweetness, held up very well, very good.

Bomber in trade. Not sure from who. Think I have had for a year or two. Oldest beer I have ever had. Was fearing the worst but I liked this!!! Nice aroma of sugars malt soy dark fruits. Taste was interesting. Still had some of the original intent plus some soy?? Med palate. Glad I tried

22 oz bottle (from notes 2008). Pours a clear deep amber color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have dark fruits, caramel, wood, vanilla, a hint of alcohol, honey, just a touch of roasted malt. Good mouthfeel, good flavor.

Entering old ratings from notes. Draft sampler at Urge Gastropub for their Stone tap takeover back in mid-January 2014. Pours a cloudy auburn hue with big beige head with good retention (similar to the rye whiskey Arrogant Bastard in the next tasting glass, but much more cloudy). AROMA of ashy malts, some toffee, light hazelnut coffee, roasted nuts, and semi-burnt toast. FLAVOR has an interesting taste than I can only describe as “roasted butterscotch” along with other notes of caramel and roasty notes of chocolate and mild coffee. Still some hints of hop bitterness in there, even after all these years. Finishes with some booze (actually oaky bourbon…the oak chips did their job) and semi-sweet chocolaty malts. Interesting to have this almost decade-old beer on draft…makes me wonder what it was like originally. (494, 859)

Very sweet! Almost like a very watered down scotch if you close your eyes. The boyfriend says it reminds him of coke. I amend that to flat coke.

Pours hazy amber with a small beige head. Aroma and flavor bring sweet malts. Unfortunately, the hops and wood have all faded at this point. =

Bottle thanks to djd07. Pours hazy dark brown. No head. Smoky, musty, nose. Taste is fairly, hints of chocolate, burnt malts. Body is a bit thin. Held up well I guess.