Bourbon County Brand Stout - Bramble Rye
(has 2 batches)

Perfumed berries, chocolate, vanilla, oak. Very well-balanced and with huge, but not overpowering, berry aroma. Great stuff! 4.3

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22oz bottle thanks to hopsbreath bottle number 0951. Pours out black topped with a small ring of a brown head. Nose is Rich milk chocolate vanilla raspberry jam some coffee. Taste is more of the nice raspberry jam brown sugar coffee lots of roast malts and chocolate. Very enjoyable

Another fruited and rye barrel-aged variant of BCBS, vintage bottle at Bart’s Bourbon County tasting in Bruges. Forms no head whatsoever, just some minuscule beige-ish bubbles on the edge of the glass, quickly gone; black robe with bronze-brownish edges. Aroma of soy sauce, fish sauce even, salted tomatoes, bitter chocolate, wet wood, salmiak, dark ’forest fruit’ jam, stewed brambleberries, oaky vanilla somewhere, coffee grounds in the background, whisky, very old sherry. Soft but still vivid blackberry sourishness opens the palate alongside a ripe red berry sweetness and a more sedate dried fig sweetness, followed by a very thick and heavy, soy sauce-like umami flavor; soft carbonation (as expected) but still tangible on the surface of the tongue, thick and oily, fatty mouthfeel. Deeply structured caramelly and nutty malt body stretching over the entire mouth cavity, becoming deeply toasted bitterish in the end, bitter chocolatey too, matching well - as always with Bourbon County stouts - with a ’wet’, tannin-rich, vanilla-ish woodiness, spicy hops and heating, whisky-like alcohol managing to avoid wryness. The umami aspect has grown quite strong here - certainly in comparison with the Backyard Rye sample in the tasting glass next to it - but there is still a pleasant, crisp dark berry flavor in here, making it an interesting and very pleasant piece of art. I did, however, prefer the more lively crispness and somewhat more elegant profile of the Backyard Rye version.

Bottle, thanks to cocoapuph! Pours opaque black, fairly fizzy small tan head that dissipates fairly quickly with some residual lacing. Aroma is chocolate, blackberry, toffee, whiskey, vanilla. Flavor is quite sweet, strong berries, black berries in particular, lots of milk chocolate, rye whiskey. Fullish body, some creaminess. Nice beer, pretty sweet tho. Sorry I opened this alone...

Bottle from tderoeck. Many thanks! On RBBWG 2015. Dark brown/black colour. Oily texture. Soft carbonation. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, whisky, vanilla, red fruit. Well balanced. Bit on the sweet side but very good.