Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Jet black pour with a large brown head. The aroma is intense! Thick Bourbon, wood, charred malts, and burnt espresso. Thick, sticky soy, molasses, and alcohol. Thick, viscous mouth feel, soft, and velvety carb. The finish is huge, loads of Bourbon barrel notes, bordering on barrel bomb with a strong coffee, and burnt cocoa powder. This is incredibly luxurious, and decadent, but it’s very intense. At 14.5% this needs to be shar d our you’ll be down for the count after this bottle..

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

Bourbon barrel aged coffee stout from Canada, from an elegant 50 cl bottle with black wax (2021 vintage), packed in its own printed box - a luxury packaging for an expensive and hopefully great beer. After the painstaking process of removing the wax and lifting off the cap, some foam slowly crept out of the bottle neck, but no gushing. Medium sized, bit irregular, tightly membrane-lacing, pale greyish beige, slowly opening but otherwise stable head on a jet black beer, letting no light pass through. Aroma of indeed coffee - in a somewhat 'layered' way, including actual roasted coffee beans but also cold espresso, pronounced bittersweet bourbon, vanillin from oak wood and actual wet wood, black pepper, lots of bitter black chocolate, wet leather, roasted brown bread, hints of salmiak, old raisins, vague liquorice, caramel, cigar tobacco, freshly cut green bell pepper, 'oude jenever', paint thinner. Sweetish onset, dense, with touches of dried dates and old raisins, superseding a dim sourishness underneath and surrounded by faint umami accents (black olive); quite spritzy in carbonation for this style of beer, but in a very fine-bubbled way. Oily, mouth-filling black maltiness ensues, notably thinned by alcohol but not dramatically so, still delivering layers of roasted brown bread, bitter black chocolate and roasted chicory, bittersweet but less sweet than is typical for this kind of beers in recent years - yet not overly roasty-bitter either, leaving the added coffee some breathing space to present itself in a spicy-bitter way, though remaining subtle and brief (probably aromatically weakened by the barrel ageing, too). Peppery hops and especially woody tannins are however quite pronounced, the latter even astringent, an effect further amplified by the bourbon, which is palpable at an early stage already and from the middle phase onwards only becomes stronger, sharper, boozier and even solventy (paint thinner, varnish) in the very end. The bourbon flavour and hot booziness dominates the tail - too bad, in my opinion it should have remained a complementary flavour adding up to a 'grand finale' of malts, hops and wood joining forces, instead of harshly conquering them and boldly crowning itself the winner of an unequal battle. The whole journey from nose to finish is an interesting one, with all those typical American style RIS boxes ticked at the right moments and not drowning in sugary sweetness as is all too often the case today, but the bourbon should have been kept a lot more subtle. Point off for that - just a tad less of that wry bourbon booziness (which even tastes like quickly evaporating liquor when I open my mouth) and this would have scored significantly higher for me.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is vanilla, coffee, meaty, chocolate, taste is sweet toffee, vanilla, bitter dark chocolate, coffee, roasted

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

DC Share. Bottle. Poured a nearly pitch black color with a small light tan, leaning towards ecru head. Aroma was big coffee roast, bourbon. I got some pepper in this one, but not too much of that peppery coffee character.

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

Bottle at share: pours black with beige head. Aroma is coffee and vegetabley hot peppers. Taste is vegetabley coffee and hot pepper.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Really has a green pickle juice jalapeno tone happening in the aroma. Really nice beer sort of, but the coffee has turned.

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

Roast and bourbon. Coffee and bourbon. Well balanced. Black pour with decent head. Bitter finish. Caramel. Bottle.

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

Refrigerated 0.5 L 2019 brown waxed bottle poured into a glass. Black with small beige head. Aroma is toasty coffee, medium/thick body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is roasty coffee, wood, and a little bourbon.

Bottle @Wodan tasting, Lots of coffee, dry..

Roasty, chocolade. Super nice.