8.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Notater fra en aldeles utmerket hyggelig dag på Våland Brygghus, her en 0,44 beholder delt med Johan, Bernt og Tor: brunsvart med fint skum. Iintense og saliggjørende inntrykk av mørke karamelchokolader, bourbon, vanilje/eik, kakao, kokos og ymse godbiter fra en konfekteske. Voi, voi - dette gir ganglag for sjelen.

8

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

Bottle from the lcbo. Pitch black pour, with a small brown head. Aroma is pungent roast, big bourbon barrel, vanilla and earthy, subtly burnt, a tad sweet soy. Mouth feel is viscous, carb is soft. Finish is medium bitter, sweet, loads of bourbon barrel, but the bitter roast cuts the sweetness. Alcohol is incredible well hidden this one could be very dangerous.

7

Heavy on the bourbon, some coffee notes, not getting much of the vanilla. Quite smooth though.

7

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Review based on the BJCP2021 guidelines (style 33B: bourbon / 34B: imperial Porter - 20A). Can 35.5 cl - Batch 25/08/21 11:40 (BB: 25/08/22). AROMA: medium-high alcoholic aroma (bourbon, hot), medium-low to low woody, vanilla, slight chocolate. APPEARANCE: dark brown body with faint ruby highlights. low light brown head with low retention. leg formation. TASTE: initial medium bourbon, low vanillin, slight sweet chocolate. medium bitterness with a semi-dry and slight roasty finish. MOUTHFEEL: medium-high body with medium-low carbonation. alcoholic warmth that grows as you drink. OVERALL: an imperial porter with a bit too much alcoholic presence (especially in the aroma), masking the underlying malts. Even as it seems this beer is already 1 year past its BB...

8.5

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8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Can (8/16/22) pour from The Beer Store, Salem. It's an opaque black with thin cap of beige head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong roasted earthy malt, bourbon, hint of toffee. Taste is strong bourbon, roasted malt, late vanilla and hint of oak. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, no adjuncts, just a well-executed, nicely balanced base porter in a barrel. If you take the time, well worth appreciating. Alcohol well hidden.

7.6

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

500ml bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is nice roast malts some ash coffee bourbon barrel touch. Taste is more of the roast malts coffee and bourbon barrel touch.

7.2

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

Can picked up from Beer Republic online shop, Breda, Nethrlands and consumed at home Tuesday 9th May 2023 listening to Steve Lamaq on 6Music on a glorious sunny Spring Day. Pours black with a small tan head. On the nose there is some vanilla, a little bourbon and a chocolate maltiness, flavour follows a similar trajectory with a little sweet liquorice. good without ever being amazing.

8.1

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

As "Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Porter", the 2021 (and later) canned version - spotted in the AD Delhaize Zwijnaarde in Ghent, much to my surprise. Medium sized, quite dense and creamy, greyish pale beige, slowly thinning and opening but generally stable head; black robe with thin purplish-burgundy red edges. Classic but intense bouquet of obvious sweet bourbon, chocolate liqueur, strong vanilla-scenting oak wood, lots of toffee, chestnut purée, caramelized brown sugar, blackberry wine, nougat, ground hazelnuts, cold cappuccino, ovomaltine, Irish coffee, hints of 'speculoospasta', almond, bayleaf, cinnamon, Mallomars, some fusel alcohols. Full, sweet onset, rounded impressions of blueberry jam, candied apple, fig compote and ripe blue plum, softly carbonated with a very thin layer of porcini-like umami on top; smooth, oily, very full body, a tad thinned by the bourbon which becomes apparent early on, dispensing 'stings' of heating, peppery alcohol here and there through layers of deeply chocolatey, hazelnutty, nougat- and toffee-like malts, sweet with a mild coffeeish-bitterish edge but not going full roasted - and in that sense indeed imperial porter in the modern sense of the word rather than imperial stout. Woody tannins, including that typical oaky vanilla scent, come up strongly in the finish, with their astringency amplified by the bittersweet alcohol from the bourbon, the flavour of which becomes rather dominant in the end, though the toffee-, ovaltine- and chocolate-like layers of maltiness do their best to absorb much of it. Some leafy hops linger beneath all this, but the power play of bourbon versus malts remains in the foreground, as an epic spectacle. Powerful and boozy but not necessarily more than one expects from an American 'BBA' imperial porter; in many ways a textbook example of this style - and one I love if it is well done. This, even if the bourbon is perhaps a tad too dominant for me personally, is undeniably well done and would easily have received a few points more from me if the bourbon were a tad less explicit. One to slip slowly on a chilly winter evening.

8.2

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

Can @ Sweden. Pours black with a small creamy beige head and lacings. Bourbon, coffee, vanilla and lakridskonfekt. Vinous and slick. Long finish. Delicious!