Draft. Had this one at an anniversery party at Moe’s Tavern. Very strong beer if thats what you call it. Extreme aroma and hop taste to it. There are very few beers that taste like this. Definitley a sipping beer.

12 oz. bottle. 2008 vintage. Previously had one of these on the night before my wedding with alexanderj and kleyland, but didn’t rate it. Pours an amber color. Medium sized, off white head. Aroma of citrus hops, molasses, and warming alcohol. Sweet flavor, with hints of dark pitted fruits, caramel, vanilla. Citrus hops are present, but not too overpowering. Finish is strongly alcoholic and bitter. Everyone should try this beer at least once.

12 oz bottle from trade deal. Pours slightly cloudy and amber orange with a smallish but puffy cap which lasts to lace the glass well. As it warms it gives off a pungent pine-citrus aroma with an underlying sweetness and light fusil alcohol-licorice tone. Big syrupy mouth feel, big bodied and boozy, a citus-pine hop bomb but surprisingly tame for the IBUs and Plato...long metalic bready aftertaste....BIG warming! Nothing like it.... Has to be experienced... it’s been described it as a hop liqueur..that’s it OK.

Cloudy amber with a lasting off-white head. Intense hops and alcohol aroma. Peaches, grass and orange are the most prominent hoppy aromas, and the alcohol is rich barleywine-like prunes and sherry, along with a strong note of gin. It’s very sweet with hot alcohol, but an intense orange and grapefruit American hop flavour and bitterness balances very well. It has a little gin in the flavour as well, and a lasting aftertaste that’s surprisingly malty. It’s not an everyday drinker, obviously, but it’s a lot of fun. And impressive that such a brew can be made at all and still be undeniably beer.

Bottle. Low fluffy but lasting off-white head. Hazy orange body. Sweet fruity hoppy aroma with alcohol notes. Well I am reading the below rating of harrisoni and disagree with him about the drinkability. Sure the beer is hoppy but still I can taste the fruityness what was worrying me more was the high alcohol percentage. It is indeed tastablble but not to an extent that makes it too much of a good thing. The low carbonation and the long aftertaste makes it a very good beer in my opinion.