3.8 Bottle from trade. Thanks to umich43jm! Pours dark brown with a beige head that falls quickly. Aroma is dark chocolate, a touch of smoke. Taste is dark roasted malt, dark coffee. Really nice full mouthfeel.

3.7 Bottle. Pours brownish gold with an off white head. Aroma is grapefruit and caramel malts. Can't smell anything else because there's a lot of Yankee Candles in the room. Flavor is white bread with orange and grapefruit peel bitter.

3.9 12oz bottle. Pours Coca-cola black with a scant brown head. Scent is dark chocolate, Gran Marnier orange. Flavor is very roasty, coffee, dark chocolate. Orange flavor is very subtle, can’t taste the yuzu.

3.8 Bottle. Pours motor oil black with a lacy brown head. Aroma of coffee, dark chocolate. Flavor is molasses, dark chocolate, grains, a touch of smoke.

3.7 Bottle. Not a gusher, like previous reviews. Pours cloudy brown with a nearly white head. Aroma is clove, cinnamon, nutmeg. Flavor is a thin brown amber with the aforementioned spices. Spice is fairly strong.

3.8 Bomber. Pours bright amber with an off white head. Aroma is raisin, dark cherry, cereal. Flavor is sweet, with dark cherry, candied sugar, raisin. 10% abv is well hidden.

4.0 Bottle. Pours Coca-cola brown with a scant beige head. Smells just like the filter holder in my coffee maker. No, really, it smells that much like coffee. Flavor follows nose, this is cold brewed iced coffee, the beer has pretty much disappeared. There’s a little malt sweetness, alcohol and carbonation. The rest is coffee. Quite good, but more coffee than beer.

4.3 2012. Bottle, which broke upon opening. Filtered through a coffee filter to avoid ingecting glass shards. Pours black. Had a nice beige head in the filter, but that’s gone now. Aroma is spent coffee grounds, bourbon. Flavor is heavy on the bourbon, with dark malts, dark fruit, and a bit of coffee bitterness. This is pretty amazing.

4.1 Bottle. Pours deep black with a hint of brown head. Aromas of oatmeal, coffee, raisin, vanilla. Surprisingly easy to drink for 13%. Flavors of caramel, dark fruit, dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla. Finishes with a nice coffee bitterness.

4.1 From my first trade ever (with ygtbsm94), thanks Brad! 2009 vintage. Bomber. Pours dark brown with a fine medium brown head. Scent is bourbon, molasses, vanilla. Full mouth with dark malt, molasses, licorice, coffee, ash, and a touch of vanilla sweetness in the finish.

3.5 Bomber from trade. Thanks, GT2! Pours yellow golden with a lacy white head. Aroma of pineapple, tropical fruit, french bread. Has a very dry, pale malt backbone and some grapefruit hop. Slightly mineral at the finish.

3.8 Trade from umich43jm. Thanks, Jason! Pours a beautiful copper gold with a lacy off white head. Aromas of citrus and pine. Light easy drinking pale malt backbone followed up by a good helping of grapefruit hop bitterness. Oily finish.

4.1 Bottle in trade from umich43jm, thanks Jason! Pours white gold and fairly viscous. Aroma is cinnamon, clove and curry with a hint of citrus. Flavor follows nose. Flavors of coconut and lime balance out the spice. Nice.

4.4 Bottle from trade with GT2. Thanks GT! Something I hope is worthy of my 200th rating. Pours a murky mud brown with just a bit of white head that runs quickly to the edge of the glass. Aroma - wow, this is special! Whiskey, raisin, cinnamon, fig, vanilla oak. On the tongue, so many flavors - I’m getting raisin, oak, fig, then there’s a sour cherry element, like a Monk’s Cafe or a Rodenbach which quickly gives way to tart lemon. There’s something floral, caramel, dark fruit and a bit of dark chocolate bitterness on the finish. Worthy!