Chewy caramelized candi-sugared malts sweeten dry prune-fig intensity to nutmeg-spiced bruised orange tempest of sturdy copper-hazed 8% alcohol daze.

Butterscotch-laden dark brown ale burrows friskily hopped mocha dryness and roasted barleymalts into earthy sediment finish. But tinny metallic thrust infringes impending mild toasted nut bitterness.

Snappy chocolate sweetness overrun by plaintive bitter grain flow and soothing hard-candied butterscotch notch. Pleasing sugared honey finish peters out to delicate off-dry mocha malt sedation with spiced cherry, plum, and raisin hints.

Boldly robust ale recalls finest dry stouts, easing nutty up-front thrust into molasses-smoked wood-seared oats-charred black coffee bittering. Hop-oiled espresso, tar, and tobacco chaw notes cake latent dark-spiced chocolate serenity.

Chewy ruddy browned ’03 edition retains delectable butterscotch-candied caramel machiado insistence as ancillary soured coffee juxtaposition reinforces prune-plum-raisin splurge and thin roasted hazelnut coat. Lactic chocolate finish invites tobacco chaw and black tar bittering to surge.

Ultimately tepid and weak-bodied compared to better brown ales. Organic hop spicing and mineral-grained water texture too soft for chocolate-y caramel peanut finish to overcome.