Big Bad Baptist - Barrel Strength
Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.63
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Epic’s cellar team has over a decade of experience perfecting world-class barrel-aged beer. Barrel Strength was refined through this wealth of passion and experience. Using the finest wood and in-house techniques, we've created a beer with flavors only attainable through true craftsmanship and patience.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle [2022] shared with Joen and Laura. Opaque jet black color with a medium brown colored head. Aroma is malts, coffee, espresso. Flavor is malts, heavy espresso, coffee, earthy lightly, metallic / iron bitter, heavy bitter, coffee / espresso bitter and heavy roast in the flavor. Damn, this is quite heavy. Way more than I had expected. Solid though nonetheless.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2025
at 22:25
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
2022 bomber drunk 8/23/23. Clear, dark. Tan head, quickly to ring. Nose is initially quite full of whiskey, as is the flavor. At first I declare it to be too whiskey-forward, with notes of alcohol fast on its toes. But it gets softer, richer, sweeter, more syrupy (never actually syrupy or sweet), just moreso than when more chilled and upon first sip. There's a touch of alcohol throughout, propelled by the strong whiskey character, but the body is near perfect, as is the attenuation. This is a more traditional, albeit giant RIS, not today's soft, syrupy monsters. Yet it's not too light ever. Excellent, peppery, spicy, lead-forward whiskey, plentiful oak and vanilla, chocolate, earth and lingering spice. Soothing body with excellent attenuation and still ample maltiness.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2023
at 23:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a black body with no head to speak of. Aroma's: firm coffee, roasted malts, wood. Retronasal: coffee, roast, boozy, wood. Flavour is moderate sweet and roasty bitter. Above medium bodied. Finishes roasty, bitter.
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 22 Jun 2023
at 15:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz. bottle, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out strong whiskey barrel presence, subdued coffee and cocoa, with a fair bit of booze. Flavour is subtler for the style but the barrel complexity opens up as you sip more; there's plenty of whiskey barrel presence, subdued coffee and cocoa, booze. Medium sweetness with a big whiskey finish. Not one of the upper tier BBB's, but very nicely done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2023
at 03:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a very dark black hue with a medium dark brown head. A big roast, cocoa, coffee nose. The flavor is actually fairly dry, not super sweet, cocoa, very rich dark chocolate, coffee, milky. Whiskey around the edges. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2023
at 08:06