6.9

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

2025 edition from Reserve Society. Aroma is chocolaty, woody, bourbon, molasses, licorice, pouch tobacco. Pours very dark brown with a half finger beige head that settles into a ring quickly. Taste is moderately to highly sweet with some firm bitterness that attempts to rein it in. There’s a sense of saltiness, but it doesn’t stand out like a good salted chocolate does—it’s sadly just a hint of it, and what I was hoping for here. Chocolate Salty BBLS is an extremely rich sipper and pretty decent but I was hoping for more.

8

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

2018 Bottle shared at Farewell to Ferndale Share. Thanks Brad & Janna! Pours a deep brown to black with a finger of tan head that dissipates instantly. Big boozy, bourbon aromas with oak, vanilla and dark chocolate. Palate is similar with dark chocolate covered bourbon balls dominating. Warming finish with cacao nibs, vanilla and oak-y bourbon.

8.1

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

2015 bottle.

8.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours opaque black, small tan head, dissipates quickly, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, cocoa, vanilla. Flavor is medium sweet, medium bitter. Full body. Quite good.

8.3

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

Bottle @ Fonefan US Tasting. Pours black with a small fizzy brown head. Aromas of heavy booze, chocolate, savory licorice, vanilla, toasted malty. Taste is boozy, vanilla, roasty, oaky, vanilla, huge chocolate, light ashy, savory, roasty, fudge. Pretty nice.

8.4

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

750 ml bottle into snifter; 2018 vintage, bottled on 1/24/2018. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy khaki head with poor retention, that reduces to nothing eventually. Minimal lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, bourbon, toasted oak, marshmallow, fudge, brownie batter, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coconut, coffee, molasses, licorice, raisin, prune, salt, smoke, tobacco, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Increasing booze in the aromas as it warmed, but not too overwhelming. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, and bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, bourbon, toasted oak, marshmallow, fudge, brownie batter, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coconut, coffee, molasses, licorice, raisin, prune, salt, smoke, tobacco, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Light herbal/roast bitterness and bourbon/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, bourbon, toasted oak, marshmallow, fudge, brownie batter, dark/brown bread, light licorice/molasses/dark fruit, tobacco, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, and bourbon barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and bourbon/oak spicness balance; with no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering roast bitterness and bourbon/oak/alcohol spiciness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a smooth, creamy/bready, fairly sticky/chalky/tannic, and lightly slick/syrupy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Lightly increasing warmth of 18.6%, with mild barrel booze lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic flavored barrel aged imperial stout. All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, and bourbon barrel flavors; smooth and dangerously easy to sip on slowly for the enormous ABV; with the mildly bitter/tannic/drying finish. Right in line with a majority of the BT variants. Impressive, but not mind blowing. Outstanding balance of rich malts and flavorings; with great barrel integration. Not overly boozy/tannic for the young age. Bruery imperial stouts are unique in that they are not very roasty/charred on malts like most others; but also insanely high in alcohol. Very similar to Black Tuesday with added flavorings. Not overdone on salt which enhanced flavors, and not overly sweet/heavy for the ABV from lingering bitter/spicy/alcohol dryness. A highly enjoyable offering as expected.

8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at tasting. Black pour. Aroma of chocolate, salt, booze, caramelised malt and vanilla. Taste of smooth chocolate, vanilla, rich bourbon booze, salt, oak, cacao bean and a long rich finish. True bruery awesomeness.

9

4.4

8

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

31st July 2017
Hackney Bottleshare. Opaque dark brown beer, short lived tan head. Palate is smooth and exceptionally light for its massive abv. Decent fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, not at all heavy. Nice dark chocolate streak. Lovely rich fruity bourbon, not that much heat. Modest savoury note before a smooth bourbon finish. Super light for such a big beer and very dangerously drinkable!