2006 vintage - Thank you Peter and Jessica. Cloudy dark amber in color with a very slight off-white head--limited carbonation from the aging, but still enough to distribute the complex flavor profile delicately across the palate. The aroma is filled with caramel malt, fruity fermentation esters, and alcohol all melded together by a velvety aged characteristic that enrobes everything. The aroma characteristics flow directly onto the palate with the addition of well-constructed bitterness and some sweetness from malt and alcohol. Restrained fermentation flavors provide harmonious counterpoints for the substantial maltiness in the big body. Very well-constructed to have aged this long and still be so vibrant. This is a really fun "new-world" Belgian-style ale.

750ml bottle: pours a dark amber brown with an off white head that fades to nothing in seconds, aroma is strong in raisons and spices, flavor hits the belgian style pretty well lots of spices raisons slightly sweet. Great beer

Bottle. Poured a cloudy amber color with a thin tan head. Aroma of fruit and chocolate. Flavor reflects the aroma. Medium/full body with mild carbonation.

2006 thanks peter for the rbsg gathering! Great nose of dried fruit...and cocoa...flavors much of the same....damn good....best free beer ever from the brewer yet!

750ml bottle, hazy dark amber hue, with a small beige head, yeasty, sweet honeyed, candied orange peel nose with some caramelized malt, spicy madeira candied fruity apricot, tangerine, dark dried raisin, date accents in a warmth aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, caramelized, toasted malt and portish character, with some madeira raisin and date fruitiness, a hint of black chocolate in a warmth mouthfeel, close to an old barley wine here by the taste, leading towards a sweet honeyish, caramel, fruity finish.