I found this at a local shop that never carries previous years of anything, but there they were sitting on the shelf. I picked up two, one for tonight and one to save to do a vertical sometime after I get a hold of 2011. Might wait until I get the 2014 next year before I do that. As for this one the hop character is still definitely there, but quite muted. As would be expected, due to the reduced hop character it's a lot sweeter than fresh. I can taste those dark fruit flavors starting to develop, but it's still a hop dominated beer albeit closer to balanced than hop forward.