Bottle at home ... from my GBBF Haul ... Red copper ... thin head ... sour malt nose ... medium body an medium carbonation ... quite sweet ith quite a lot of hop in background ... odd low toned bitterness ... and some off fruitness and liqorish.. not workinging for me.

BOTM club. Amber pour with a thin tan head. Aroma of caramel and malt. Taste is somewhat thin and not as sweet as most in this style. Faint caramel and chocolate linger with the finish.

BOTMC Selection, September 2008: Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a reddish-brown body with and almost non-existent head of foam. Great caramel malt aroma. Low carbonation with a full body, and a good measure of sweetness. Alcohol is well concealed thought the hops leaves a slight bitter aftertaste on the sides of the tongue. Palate is unassuming, and aside from the sweetness of the malting and it’s overall heaviness, I don’t think that this is a complex beer. Nevertheless, I think it meets it’s commercial description rather well and a certainly a beer to warm up with on a cold day or night.

I liked this much more than most it seems. Nice sweet caramel taste. It looks great with a dark amber color and small head. Aroma is very nice malty sweetness. Nice little burn as it warms.

Please forgive the brief descriptions. Taster: aroma and flavor have a wonderful malt profile. The flavor has caramel sweetness with mild chocolate bitterness