Bottle, from Kramer. Nice deep, rich black color. Flavor was very nice - deep roasted flavors, lots of hops and a nice chocolate finish. Very drinkable. Pretty good.

I had this in a bottle poured into a wine glass. Pours a typical dark brown, but with just a little bit of a white head. Smell is a little smokey, not sweet. Taste is exactly like it smells. It is very light, almost refreshing, but with smokey aftertones. Lots of roasted malts. There is really no sweetness at all. It tastes like a mild rauchbier. Overall, I’d say this is a lot more drinkable than a typical porter, or a typical rauchbier. I would recommend this for somebody who wants to get into rauchbiers, but it a little afraid. It’s a good beer. Extremely light and drinkable, but still having a complex smokiness to it. Thumbs up!

12oz bottle, no date from kramer, thank you Jason! I’m not one for being cuddly, but it is one of the cuter labels I’ve come across--I’ll have to give the bottle to my gf’s niece for her 3rd b-day. Clear deep ruby with a 1/2 finger tan head, fading to a thick ring and tattered film after 30 seconds or so. Roasty malts and burnt malts up front with a bit of burnt plastic, and some light dark chocolate notes. Flavor is quite ashy and burnt with some sweet caramel attempting to mask the flaw, but the sweet and burnt ash are two separate entities--usually porters and/or stouts will smell sweet, but won’t taste it at all--this is the opposite. I doubt this has any strength at all to it, but some alcohol is detectable. Bitterness peaked around a 3. Low carbonation with a light body. Not too bad, but not a must-have beer, either.

Bottle, maybe form Kramer. Brownish pour with a fizzy head. There is a definite smokiness to this, a bit hammy, backing up what is otherwise more of a brown ale than a porter. Fairly easily drinkable but metallic. Goes down a touch sweet. Decent enough.

bottle by way of kramer... pours a fairly opaque dark brown and ruby with a spongy toasted almond colored head. the aroma is chocolate, light smokiness, earth, grass and creme fraiche... there’s definitely a sour creaminess to it. that sour/acidity carries over to the flavor where it meets up with lightly ashy wood, toasted walnuts, floral hops, some yeast presence, roasty grain and a herbal spicy finish. underneath those flavors lies a strange almost medicinal characteristic... it’s odd, really difficult to describe but not off putting. medium body. creamy soft carbonation.