750 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 12/2016. Pours dense pitch black color with a 1-2 finger dense, creamy, and rocky tan head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big juicy/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, nuts, biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of coconut, molasses, licorice, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of blackberries, coffee, dark/roast/bready malts, bourbon barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with big strength. Taste of big juicy/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, nuts, biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of coconut, molasses, licorice, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, roast, charred bitterness; and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, nuts, biscuit, dark bread/crust, coconut, molasses, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of blackberries, coffee, dark/roast/bready malts, bourbon barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet, and tart/tangy fruit balance; with no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness and tart/tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and fairly sticky/acidic/tangy/tannic mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 10.6%, no lingering barrel booze after the finish. Overall this is an excellent barrel aged fruited imperial porter. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of blackberries, coffee, dark/roast/bready malts, bourbon barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/tart/tangy/drying finish. Great soft feel for the ABV. Awesome balance between juicy/jammy berries, rich malts, and fruity/nutty coffee complexity; with nice bourbon barrel presence/integration, mild earthy hops, and restrained fruity yeast. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive experimental style example as expected of the brewery. No complaints.