Abita Brewing Company Bourbon Street Barrel Aged Imperial Stout

Bourbon Street Barrel Aged Imperial Stout

 

Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.24
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 41
Bourbon Street Stout is an Imperial Stout that is aged in Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon barrels. Our Imperial Stout is brewed with a combination of pale, caramel, chocolate and roasted malts. Oats are also added to give the beer a fuller and sweeter taste. The roasted malts give the beer its dark color as well as its intense flavor and aroma. After fermentation the beer is cold aged for 6 weeks. This is necessary for all of the flavors of the malt and hops to balance and produce a very smooth flavor.

After the cold aging the beer is transferred into the bourbon barrels. It is then aged for another 8 weeks to absorb all of the flavors from the barrels. The result is a strong stout that brings out the roasted flavors from the malt and the warming toasted, vanilla, and bourbon flavors from the barrels.
 

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
650ml bottle @ ISKTR 2014

Pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma of roasty malts, mild bourbony notes, hints of wood, vanilla, oak and toffee. Taste is smooth, sweetish and mildly roasty with hints of toffee, buttery bourbon, vanilla and syrup. Finish is stuffy, sweet and syrupy with loads of vanilla and hints of butter. A vanilla overdose. A bit unbalanced, though.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2014 at 07:44