First, I realize that this is not a new beer, nor a particularly rare one on the west coast…but I had never had it before and in fact, had not ever seen it on the east coast. And I liked it, and if you haven’t tried it…you should, given the opportunity.

But wow…what a strong beer. 9.8%. Overwhelming rather strange taste, really..but a good one fortunately. It seemed somewhat like what I would image Celebration ale would taste like if you extracted 1/4 of the water out of it. The palet was assaulted in much the same area, but much more savagely.

Not something I was interested in having several of though. Definately a starter beer, not one you’ll want to carry around for the long haul. Of course, if you tried, the haul would likely get much shorter.

I can remember several times thinking I would rather have it much colder and in a frosted pint glass, but I didn’t have any…and it goes down pretty slow…so expect it to be fairly warm by the end unless you pound it.

I would however, strongly recommend against pounding it.

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