Smoked hop smell. Sweet start and full sweetness in body bit without actually being sweet. Smoke shows up at finish again.

The smokiness is very light, easily lost in the roastiness of the beer. Quite tasty but it's bitterness gets slightly anoying after a while.

Opens creamy, with an oatmeal-like sweetness - wouldn't be surprised if the OATstanding was the base beer here. Mouthfeel is thin, although the foamy head reinforced the sense of creaminess. The smoke manifested more as a kind of tobacco-ash roastiness than as the kind of wood smoke that I've commonly encountered lately. Pretty good, although the bitterness builds up faster than I liked.