Chestnut brown pour with some murk. A few orange highlights. Better color than those words might suggest! Super head, decent retention, good lace.

Nose has a ton of lighted roasted malts. Same initial tastes with some lightly bittering hops cutting across the mid-palate. There’s a ton of powdery chocolate and light caramel. It seems like the beer has a touch of citrusy, sourness about like as if a lemon or grapefruit has been squeezed into.

Mouthfeel is good with decent richness about the beer, and it finishes with more bitterness than the finish promises. Drying element in the back-end too.

This is a bit odd TBH. It has a bit of hybrid feel about, with elements of Belgian sweetness, the caramel richness of an English heavily malt-forward beer, and a some bitter dryness that seems a little misplaced. Having said all of that it seems to work – just.

I would never recommend this to anyone as quintessentially anything – in fact I really have no idea what it’s doing or even trying to do – but it’s a long way from the worst beer I have ever had. I think it’s one of those, “give it a try once and see what you think”, beers. This won’t hit for everyone, and it didn’t really for me, but I didn’t hate it either.