UPDATED: FEB 11, 2024 On tap in a glass. Pours brown with a beige head. Aroma of caramel and nutty malts, light hops, bread. Flavor the same with a nice balance of it all. Solid beer for the style

UPDATED: DEC 26, 2023 Pours dark brown into a stein. Mocha head with good retention recedes to pancake surface. Sweet with dark raisin bread, date and fig front to back. Lasting dry toasted pumpernickel finish.

UPDATED: NOV 3, 2023 Draft at the source. Dark brown, creamy beige head. Toasted malt, caramel, chestnut, nice.

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2023 On tap at brewery. Dark brown color. Creamy tan head. Sweet toasted malt nose. Flavor is sublime. Lightly roasted malt, carame, spicy hops and a hint of cocoa. Absolutely delicious.

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2023 Draft at HF. Pours rich brown with a lasting, creamy khaki topping. Nicely toasted malt aroma. Delicious beer, gorgeous roasted malts, cocoa, mild earth, toasted biscuits. Light bodied with massaging carbonation and creamy texture. Great balance to finish, fresh brown bread, cocoa. Superb.

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2023 750mL growler filled 2/7/23 drunk 2/24/23. Clear, dark. Large, beige head, moderate-to-strong retention. Sweet raisins, cinnamon, oak and cookies with dollops of baking chocolate and honey. Plentiful minerality, not excessively specialty-malted, with seemingly good attenuation but also equal malt richness. Soft, delicate, herbal hops. Clean. Wow the hop plus specialty malt and wood really give it a spicy, almost christmasy feel. Cinnamon, moderately-sweet baker's chocolate and soft oak and lightly burnt cookie in the background. Rich base malts with high attenuation and excellent body. A clean, mineralesque, highly drinkable, malty treat.

UPDATED: JUN 22, 2022 Draft at brewery. Pours dark brown with a thick khaki head. Lots of toasty malt notes on the nose and tongue. Has kind of a thick mouthfeel. It’s a meal as well as a drink which is nice when there’s a bit of chill in the air.

UPDATED: MAY 26, 2022 Draft at Hill Farmstead. Dark, muddy brown pour with a thick, creamy off-white head, rings of lacing. Light roasty aroma, chocolate. Taste is malty, nutty, light chocolate, creamy smooth. Mild bitterness at the finish.

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2021 On tap at the brewery. Pours a very dark brown with medium beige head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is raisin, oats, toasted malt. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, nice lingering dryness, very good.

UPDATED: APR 12, 2019 Looks dark brown to black in the glass. 2 finger very creamy head. Sense cream with a tan hue. Old wet grain, smells like wort sweet corn. Wooody, dense and dry mouthfeel. Chewy malt, rye bread. Sticks around a Bread yeast finish. Very tasty