This beer is a complex color, a mixture of brown, red, and orange, blended into a dark body with a creamy tan head. A moderately sweet aroma, featuring some caramel malts and fruity undertones. Upon drinking, the beer was first sweet and wet, but that faded away, being replaced by a finishing kick of alcohol. The beer had a dense body with light-average carbonation; very drinkable. Needless to say, it warmed me up a bit!

Crystal clear, light copper body with nice lacing from a beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, some lemon, light caramel. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, some caramel, earthy, moderately bitter. Creamy medium body with some resin.

Mostly clear, orange ale with a large, frothy, off-white/barely orange head. Good retention with cirrus lacing. Big aroma with blasts of evergreen and peach and lesser notes of leather and cotton candy. Well-hopped and moderately bitter, but so rich and malty that it leans a touch too far toward the sweet side. Full-bodied and syrupy with mild carbonation. Lengthy, sweet, grassy finish. Not balanced enough for the style, but still a very drinkable, warming Winter beer.