Got free glass with this creamy burgundy-port-like suffrage tributary featuring mahogany-marooned hue rising above ravishing ruby-garnet sash. Dried fig, raisin, date and bruised black cherry linger atop vanilla-chocolate souring, infiltrating earthen peat bottom and impending tobacco chew, hazelnut and walnut mirage, finishing with molasses-like Scotch malt twist.

Really fine full-bodied southern ale may lack creamy resilience, but not rounded nutty makeup. Oily coffee surge embitters cocoa-powdered toffee malts and hazelnut-pecan-walnut illusions. Fig-date souring enhances peanut shell reminder.

Celebrating nine years brewing with 9-malt, 9-hop, 9% alcohol limited ’05 release, this dramatic tan-headed, brown-bodied Semite-embracing ale brings incipient visual pleasure as frothy cascading spume floats briskly to top. Ebullient brown chocolate sweetness saturates complementary creme caramel center, swirled vanilla scoop, and cherry syrup topping. Deep-recessed creamy coffee linger perfectly counters curvaceous sticky sugared malt spine. Photo courtesy of www.beeradvocate.com

Sweet yeast aromatics grace organic barley-hop palate, initiating elegant butterscotch mouthfeel complemented by silken crisp-watered carbonation. Only the quickly dissipating mocha finish keeps this from absolute perfection.