750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 12/14/2016. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy dark ruby red/light brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge cinnamon, nutmeg, maple syrup, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, and brown bread; with lighter notes raisin, fig, plum, date, apricot, coconut, and yeast/oak/toasted earthiness. Incredible aromas with fantastic complexity and balance of dark/bready malt, maple/spices, bourbon barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of huge cinnamon, nutmeg, maple syrup, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, and brown bread; with lighter notes raisin, fig, plum, date, apricot, coconut, and yeast/oak/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/cinnamon bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, maple syrup, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, brown bread, light dark fruit/coconut, and yeast/oak/toasted earthiness on the finish for while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple/spices, bourbon barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a nice malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly drying from bitter/spiciness as well. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and lightly silky/sticky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is extremely well hidden; a mild warmth with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an insane spiced English barelywine! All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple/spices, bourbon barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. Perfectly balanced between malt, spice, and barrel flavors. Tastes exactly like french toast as advertised. The spices mask a lot of the fruity yeast character of the base beer, but there is still a solid amount there. An insanely delicious offering, and probably my favorite of the Mash series so far; but the regular and vanilla were pretty much equally exceptional in different ways.

Sample during Blarney Wine Festival 2017 on 03/18/2017. The beer is a dark mahogany-brown color with a medium foamy beige head that diminishes gradually to a wispy film. Small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of malt, cinnamon, maple and oak. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, cinnamon, maple and oaky bourbon. The finish is sweet with a bourbon-infused maple syrup aftertaste. Good beer all around.