Modest winter warmer plies tobacco-roasted cigar leafing to resinous mocha dryness and nut-grained pumpernickel rye toasting. At the midst, peat-mossy honeyed molasses sweetness abuts wispy dry-hopped bittering (reminiscent of tamer Extra Special Bitters). Just don’t expect typical seasonal spicing to dot its mild blend. 2012 tapped version at Manhattan’s Jack Doyle’s Pub upped the cinnamon-toasted gingerbread-nutmeg seasonality, gained a creamier vanilla-chocolate stead and dabbed black cherry tartness onto the spruce-tipped evergreen recess.
