Respectable collaborative adjunct ale honors home state Springsteen sax legend, Clarence Clemons, with a winning 8.5% alcohol blend every bit as heavy, rounded, dark and sweet as the ‘Big Man’ himself. Creamy brown chocolate richness, maple-sapped rye graining and oats-sugared cookie dough opulence commingle with less opulent IPA-like bruised fruiting. Raisin-pureed blackberry, cherry and grape undertones graze against hop-charred peat dewiness. Ancillary port, noir and burgundy wining and recessive ashen cocoa powdering fill out backend of thrillingly vigorous full body better labeled a stout.