UPDATED: NOV 21, 2021 Can at home last of evening. Copper colored and few fingers head. Nose is caramel, and the booth of an English pub. Tastes of dark fruit, caramel, dust, malt, leather. Smooth palate.

UPDATED: FEB 28, 2020 12 oz can. Pours a bright amber orange with a tight dense head. Lacing. Scents of leather and apricots. Malty sweet with some spices and above average carbonation and dry finish. Interesting and good.

UPDATED: MAR 15, 2018 Pours a nice clear mahogany from a tap, cream colored head has some lacing. Malty, light wheat toast aroma. Slightly bitter but mostly sweet. Good beer.

UPDATED: DEC 28, 2018 Cloudy amber. Full body, rich , hot, well carbonated palate, flavorful, good length, tasty finish. Medium bitterness, dry but well balanced. Malty, hoppy, yeasty. Intriguing, each sip invites the next one. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a ruddy burnt orange to brown color with a solid sustaining finger’s worth of off white foamy head. The head must last for a good minute before gently dissipating and creating some light speckled lace. The aroma starts off with some sweet to spicy estery fruit flowing upon rich caramel and toffee malts. Some grassy notes. Clean earthy and spicy hops beat feet upon those malts to add a little bit of zing. Sly herbal notes underneath and then a little bit of chocolate. The flavor balances very nicely between the sweet to spicy to fruity and caramel/toffee blended flow all combining extremely nice and right on into the aftertaste and on into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable flow smoothing out on my tongue. The use of the malts in this beer really helped smooth out some of that "zing" I smelled in the aroma as it doesn’t let in any cloying features but just really feels absolutely wonderful. Overall, an English pale ale with a little beef. Feels just a tad heavier than some others of it’s style, perhaps the chocolate in it, but if anything for a medium ABV-ed beer, it’s heartier than expected and definitely could still go with some fish n’chips.

Pale murky amber brown pour. Spicy hops and a heavy malt backbone. Not terribly ruch for a winter ale, but serviceable with a spicy bitter malty finish.

Draught. Pours mahogany with a medium beige head. Aroma is sweet malt, grain, and spice. Taste is muddled caramel and fruit with a little spice. Lightly metallic. Drying, bitter finish. Medium body. Medium carbonation. Oily mouthfeel.

Bottle. Pours a murky brown with malt aroma. Sweet malt up front that lingers. A little spiciness at the end. Pretty pedestrian.

Out of the bomber with fam. Not reall but i digress, slight bitterness washed over by caramel and toffee, hay. Medium body.

UPDATED: DEC 10, 2014 A small taste from a bottle @ Bauer Wine & Spirits. Pours clear chestnut with a medium head. Aroma is malts with some spices. Flavor is malts with some pumpkin, some spices and a hint of hops. Lighter than most winter warmers, which suits me just fine.