Murky brown color with a thin head. Aroma of sweet celery. Very bittersweet malt taste with a finish of mint. Possibly some grape or plum bits at the end. Weird.

Barrel aged version poured a cloudy dark brown with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of cherry, orange, vanilla, oak and maple. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of apple, cherry, wood and carmel with a dry slightly bitter finish.

Dark Brown Coloring with sandy Ring. Malty and Somewhat Grapey Aroma. Rich Malt, with a Dusty Dry Malt Aftertaste...Grapey Tang From Malt and Caramel Resides with a Light Alcohol Presence. Certainly an Enjoyable Dopple, But Nothing Stellar.

A pre-release growler. how nice. Not as nice as a bottle-conditioned sample like some people get...sigh...Anyway... Pours from the growler a deep russet brown, with a slim, disappearing head (looked bigger on pre-release pints my pals enjoyed this afternoon...maybe it’s the glass I’ve employed)... Aroma is rich and sweet, toffeeish, deep with malt, and, frankly, delicious...a most sublime candy bar, melted down, and whipped up for us to enjoy, very likable, hell, lovable! Thick entry on the mouth, slick, supremely tasty, malt-tastic, I say, the very key to happiness, found in a beer glass. Caramel is here, too, all the sweet malts at work...and the intoxication starts it’s course... Mouthfeel is nice and mild, sweet, but never too much so, lighty drying off in the finish, leaving every new sip and suckle all the more satisfying. A wonderful shock of fantastic taste greets one anew. Goes down with ease, though the booze factor jumps and demands to be noticed...not too hard, but it slows down appreciation. This is a kind creation of Mr. Haug, a well-appreciated doppel, and I’m glad I finally got a

Dark dark brown in color with a nice cap of foarm. Served in a brandy snifter. Chocolate aroma with a thick chocolate body and a portish characteristic though the alcohol was very pronounced.