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It's not as good as I expected.

4.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

650ml bottle @ ISKTR

Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma of malts, metallic notes, hints of berries and bourbon. Taste is sweetish, malty and stuffy with some hints of berries and sweet toffee. Finish is stuffy, sweet and messy. Sweet and messy.

7.2

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

22oz waxed bottle picked up in CA
Pours clear dark amber with a medium sized off-white head and lots of lacing. Aroma of toasted malts, woody and vanilla. Flavors of whiskey, coconut, vanilla and woody
Decent, smooth, It doesn’t taste like a 12% beer

6.6

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

Bottle at Brewdown. Pours reddish amber with white head. Nose and taste of caramel, whiskey and toasted malt. Medium body.

7.4

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

Bomber from the Brewery. Nose is vanilla, oak, caramel, and a very slight hint of bourbon (must not have left all that sweated bourbon in the barrels when they filled them). clear rust copper with a medium light beige head that leaves a faint lacing. Flavor is vanilla and caramels with just a slight bitter aftertaste and a hint of bourbony alcohol.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bomber from Hi-Time. Pours copper with a beige head. Aroma is reminiscent of bourbon and coke. There’s booze in the nose. Med body. Flavor is mild bourbon with some malt. There’s a little heat. But very little considering it’s 12%. Over all I’d say it’s like drinking Irish whiskey, but without the normal heat. There’s bourbon, but not very strong. There’s no complexity to it, but it’s quite drinkable, and I have no idea why the ratings are so low. Perhaps this latest version is improved somehow.

4.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

22oz wax top bottle for a what I subconsciously new as a higher price (by many fold) that I should pay for an Indian Wells beer. Pours with a hazed deep amber hued body with a lasting tan head. Aromas are very cidery, alcohol, caramel, nutty, grainy, fusel, very estery, minimal wet wood contribution. Flavors are medium caramel, thin, lightly toasty, very cidery, strong esters, rough fusel alcohol. Minimal bourbon. Thin and boozy with medium carbonation.

4.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Big thanks to cbkschubert for taking one for the team and getting this thing. Thanks again Craig. Growler that is nearly 60oz too big pours out sort of brown with copper hues and virtually no head to speak of (so I won’t). The aroma is just bowl you over straight up booze with a combination of harsh whiskey and nose searing heat. The taste is similar as it basically only offers up various whiskey booze notes ranging from sweet candy like whiskey to harsh ‘out of a 99¢ 1 liter plastic jug’ whiskey. It goes downhill from there as you dare to consume more. So when you’re ‘spit balling’ about what beer to make next how did it end up being an amber lager into a barrel? It would be interesting if a style was picked that could stand up to this much barrel time and create a small semblance of balance.