Faint sour smell. Sour taste start but with thin body quickly transitions to pleasant coffee bitters and roasted chocolate finish. Does not leave mouth tacky.

A lot going on here, which now seems normal for Deschutes's high gravity brews. Aging has mellowed out the vanilla-cherry-bourbon flavors in the middle (making it better than the young 2012 I've had), but the transitions aren't smooth and there's a sharp wood quality that reminds me of my less favorite features of, say, the Yetis.