Bottle, many thanks Erzengel! Dark brown color with tan head. Aroma is barrel sugar, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, caramel, vanilla, toasted wood. Taste is chocolate, cocoa, barrel sugar, vanilla, toasted wood. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. A bit too light-bodied for the barrel, or too much barrel for the body.

Many thanks to jtclockwork for sharing. Woody caramelly nose. The beer starts fresh and smooth. Mild with chocolate, alcohol, intense deep with lots of chocolate and smooth malt. Deep long, malt, chocolate with still a high drinkability.

Smoked imperial stout aged on bourbon barrels. Thick and moussy, pale greyish beige head, black robe with thin hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of milk chocolate, treacle, vanilla-scenting bourbon, chestnut cream sauce, baked banana, brown rum, coconut, whisky-soaked raisins, glue and indeed a touch of smoked bacon, but subtle. Sweet onset, candied dates, chestnuts, figs coated in chocolate - with a very light sourish accent to it fitting in very well. Soft carbonation, thick and syrupy, oily mouthfeel; deeply nutty and chocolate bar-like maltiness, much more sweet than bitter but still with a softly roasted bitter 'coffeeness' to it in the end; sugars linger, coconut candy- and marzipan-like almost, with the smokiness again remaining understated; oaky tannins including vanilla, the latter enhanced by the bourbon, further adorn the finish, detailed by some varnish-like solvents and a strong, long afterglow of whisky-like alcohol, a tad too wry and harsh for its own good. The initial sweetness lingers and cloys a bit. Quite an intense, modern American imperial stout, boozy and sweet, but for me personally not Jackie O's best, in being a tad too alcoholic and, for a smoked stout, simply not smoked enough. In all still a deep, intense, generous beer though, that much is clear.

Bottle. Pours black, small grey head. Smell is bourbon, some heat by the alcohol, some roasty notes. Taste is rather sharp, full, oaty, very creamy ! Some burnt malts, some sweetness. Mild vanilla trough the oak notes. Rich in taste, and for sure intense enough. i get no smokyness myself, and although that’s a negative thing to their effort, it’s a great thing to my pallet, as I strongly disslike smoke. Mild boozyness. Good MF and carbo,

Bourbon, subtle tar nose. Cola black, thin tan head. Bourbon, charred oak. Medium body, soft carbonation.

Draft @ CBC 2015. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate with weak smoky hints. Roasted malty woody bourbon chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate finish with weak smoky hints.