Can. Pours a thick dark brown with a thin head and aromas of maple syrup, cream, bourbon, and chocolate. Flavor has a blast of roasted malt up front that hits you with a coffee grounds, chocolate, and charcoal punch to the palate. Finish is smooth cream and maple with a little bit of abv and bourbon. Kinda nice beer, Roak!

16 ounce can into snifter, canned on 10/19/2018. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger dense and rocky khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, toffee, cinnamon, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, fudge, marshmallow, nuts, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coconut, licorice, raisin, prune, smoke, char, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Slight booze in the aromas as it warms, but not overwhelming. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, maple syrup, spices, bourbon barrels, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, toffee, cinnamon, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, fudge, marshmallow, nuts, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coconut, licorice, raisin, prune, smoke, char, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, peppery hop; roast/char bitterness; and cinnamon, bourbon, oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, toffee, cinnamon, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, fudge, marshmallow, nuts, dark/brown bread, coconut, licorice, dark fruit, light smoke/char, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, maple syrup, spices, bourbon barrels, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet and cinnamon/bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with no cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char and cinnamon/bourbon/oak spiciness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and fairly sticky/chalky/tannic mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 11.4%, with minimal barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic barrel aged imperial oatmeal stout. All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, maple syrup, spices, bourbon barrels, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV; with the mellowly bitter/spicy/tannic/drying finish. Outstanding balance of rich malts, maple syrup, spices, and bourbon barrel presence/integration; with solid earthy hops against sweetness. Just as impressive as the base beer. Richer, more dessert-like at the higher ABV; and mellower on the hop/spice, and roast/char bitterness from the barrel aging. A highly enjoyable offering, and amazing style example as expected.