Stout Aged in Bourbon and Red Wine Barrels - 13.6% ABV

Every once in a while things just go some kind of perfect. Following up on our 2024 collaborative French-oaked Darkness variant with our favorite happy hairbangers to the north, we invited them to select a blend of Deth’s Tar casks for a wine-focused finishing routine down here in the world's greatest city. Half of that blend was rebarreled in lees-enhanced red wine barrels from a mutually-adored winery, Herman Story in Paso Robles, CA. Wine lees consists primarily of yeast and grape sediment in a slurry of hazy wine. In the case of Herman Story’s lees, it’s also going to be abso-stinkingly loaded with oak, fruit, and organic acid. The other half of the blend was rebarreled back into fresh bourbon barrels. Their marriage melds the disparate worlds of big beers and equally big fine wines, showcasing our favorite things about each without ruining either.