7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

From bottle at bytemesis 10K tasting. Clear dark brown color with off white head. Malty aroma, roasted, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, light fruity. Sweet and light bitter taste. Light to medium oily body with soft carbonation.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle, shared by Andrew?? Pours clear chestnut, small beige head, dissipates quickly, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, toffee. Medium sweet, medium bitter. Medium body. A bit sharp.

9

Bit thinner than expected but not a stout or Porter so forgiven, huge sweet upfront but forgiven with the spice that follows. Well done.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bomber. Aroma is pungent bourbon, oak, Play-Doh, caramel, chocolate, coconut, earth, almonds, dark fruit. Goddam that bourbon is strong, but it fades thankfully to a nuance after a couple minutes, just where I like it. Pours hazy brown with orange highlights and a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is sweet, savory and very faintly spicy with a very mild detection of chili pepper heat, finishing with a hint of tartness; flavors like the best bourbon barrel aged brews: not overly boozy with suggestions of bourbon and flavors of vanilla, coconut, cashew brittle, wood. Overall, it's a really nice brew that I was expecting to be a nasty booze bomb considering that aroma and my previous experience with their Salted Caramel barrel aged beer. I'm glad it redeemed itself and mellowed out. Edit: the chili pepper heat builds on the tongue almost imperceptibly, helping to create this really nice flavor profile. What started out nearly undetectable builds up noticeably, never becoming even moderately spicy by pepper beer standards, but still building up to where there's a nice tingle going on all around the mouth. Pleasant overall.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

It's a super smooth Ultra mellow beer that hides the alcohol very well but also hides all the other qualities that they're touting such as chocolate chillies fruits and spices. Nice beer but nothing really crazy good.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured into a snifter, the appearance was a ruddy dark orange to light brown color with a little off white foamy head that fell off at a moderate pace. Some sliding lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, sweet wood and a dry little spicy chili pepper balancing it all out nicely.
The flavor was sweet with the chocolate, coconut and vanilla up front allowing the chili heat to come in slightly. Aftertaste was almost non-existent but seemed to have just a touch of the milk chocolate. Finish was the same.
The palate was medium bodied with some of the \"heat\" to coincide with the meddling of the feel (the bourbon to the spicy \"heat\"). Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty nice strong ale, American or English, hell if I know, just damn good.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bomber from Tavour given to me by my daughter. Nose is chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, and a hint of chipolte. Murky rusty orange with a medium, lightly lacing, beige head. Flavor is big vanilla, oak, light bourbon, and a very light capsaicin heat. Nicely done as far as I am concerned.

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Pours a near clear reddish amber with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has an odd combination of spice, earthy grains, oak and chocolate. Flavor is muddled as well with chocolate, oak, pepper and some earthy grains.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

22oz bottle pours a hazy orange with some thin, sudsy, fading head. Nose has booze, butterscotch, buttery oak, malt, some green vanilla, mild dried fruit. Nose isn’t great. Flavor follows along, overly sweet, lots of tannic sweet tea, the pepper comes through, heat but also odd vegetal notes, some paint thinner. Thin, oily finish. Was not digging this.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Tasting at Matt’s
Hazy amber color with small head. Aroma of green chillies, a bit dusty. The mouthfeel is a bit sweet; no distinctive flavor, a bit of sweeteners, dusty peppers; the alcohol is clearly perceived. Somehow messy and boozy.