I just tasted my old ale and I'm not so sure I'll be ready to drink a few during the holidays or even before spring. It's showing promise, but it clocks in at a respectable 10% and it is boozy, young and brash. Not hot, but there's more than a few notes of alcohol: spicy, rummy, sweet and round in the mouth. It's also very fruity (plum, berries), moreso than the 62-64F internal fermentation temperatures would indicate, but I've read somewhere that S-04 tends to be very fruity in high gravity brews.
I'll leave the beer be a few weeks on the yeast and then bottle.