Twin Sails Brewing Flex Mex - Barrel Aged 2025 (Heaven Hill & Wild Turkey Barrels)

Flex Mex - Barrel Aged 2025 (Heaven Hill & Wild Turkey Barrels)

 

Twin Sails Brewing in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
7.33
ABV: 11.2% IBU: - Ticks: 3
We started with our Barrel Aged Str8 Flexin' then took select barrels and conditioned them on our Aztec inspired spice blend of Ancho Chili, Cinnamon Cocoa and Vanilla. The ancho provides a delicate dark fruit & raisin character along with a warmth that beautifully accents the aromatics of the cinnamon. The cocoa adds a decadent dark chocolate bitterness while the vanilla's sweetness brings everything into balance Expect lots of warming spices on the cocoa, vanilla sweetness, dried fruit and a nose while the palate is dominated by bitter subtle barrel character.
 

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7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
355mL can, pours black with a medium brown head. Aroma is full of cinnamon and chilis upfront, followed by cocoa, and some subdued barrel notes. Flavour is rich, with lots of chocolate and cinnamon upfront, light vanilla, fairly gentle chilis, and some bourbon in back. Pretty nice addition of adjuncts. The copious adjunct bill hides some of the harshness in the barrel that was dominant in the 2025 version of Catching Moonlight and, to a lesser extent, Lights Out. The palate is a bit sludgy though and could use refinement—this kind of beer benefits from an oilier, silkier palate, which this is far from. All in all, very enjoyable, but not near the peak of past incarnations of this beer.
Tried from Can at Twin Sails Brewing on 20 Dec 2025 at 06:27

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Black colour, with a dark brown head. The aroma has mainly cinnamon, vanilla, and maybe a bit of ancho if I'm being generous. On the palate, it's got a good body, cinnamon, light vanilla. The ancho sort of slides into the finish a bit. Good bourbon character rounds it out. This is quite good - not peak from a few years ago, but I'm enjoying it.
Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2025 at 05:26

8.3/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 8
Taster.
Aroma: mix of spices and American oak.
Taste: along the same lines, nice body. Pretty balanced spices.
Overall: good one
Tried from Draft at Twin Sails Brewing on 30 Nov 2025 at 03:16