Very well balanced, somewhat understated, barrel-aged barley wine. Not too boozy, pleasantly caramel-toffee, mildly sweet. Definitely not as hoppy as I'm used to getting from Shmaltz. Delicious.

Smells like potpourri. Tastes like potpourri, and maybe candle vanilla too. Quite a bit of chemical bitterness, like you'd expect from a pool of perfume. Did I like it?

Good black IPA. Nothing notable or special. I expected more from the "black" part of the description. But there was nothing that separates this one from any one of the hundreds of IPAs out there.

Chewy thick malt-sweet beer that is unique but almost too much in every direction.

A taste. Thanks Alex... but yuck. Much too much perfume.

A taste. Thanks Alex! First impression is... boring, brown. Got a wee bit better over time.

Either this got better with age, this doesn't do well on draft, or I appreciate these flavors now. Distinct dried-fruit flavors mesh nicely with both the sugar-spice Belgian and thatchy Doppel characters. I liked it.

Thin body, and clove and coriander at the forefront with not much else. Drinkable, but not my favorite flavor.