Bottle at Tide's Pitch black with brown head. Huge rye, liquorice and roast. Oaky bourbon, some light vanilla, almost smoky. Good stuff!

750ml bottle from a trade. 2017 batch 1. Super balanced, roasty and woody with some oak, bourbon, hints of smoke, loads of licorice, rye, cocoa, some vanilla, smoke and toffee. Really well done and just awesome barrel aged imperial stout. Everything is in almost perfect balance here.

Sample from the bottle at Tide's, Helsinki. Color is dark brown with very small brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Dark chocolate, coffee and roasted malts. Some bourbon and vanilla. Great.

I absolutely love how “ordinary” it is. Balanced really tasty BA impy.

Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout by this highly acclaimed brewery in Missouri, thanks Tom for sharing at Bumb3r. Some pale off-white bubbles here and there but otherwise close to no head, black robe with hazy copper-hued edges. Intense and deliciously fragrant bouquet of chocolate liqueur, old madera, wet oak including the vanilla aspect, coffee cream, hazelnut oil, whisky, beef stock, caramel, touch of soy sauce. Sweetish, concentrated onset with umami mixed in, as sugared gravy with raisins, softly carbonated, very full, vinous, oily mouthfeel. Deep and thick nutty and toffeeish malt body with softly roasted bitter tail drenched in wet oak tannins and long-stretching, heating bourbon-coloured booziness; ends very rich bittersweet and complex. An astonishing 'bière de dégustation' indeed, worth the hype that seems to surround it.

Bottle at bumba. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, cherry, fudge and booze. Taste has thick bourbon, cherry, booze, oak and caramel fudge. Boozy finish. Very nice, also quite boozy.

Pours black, small tanned ring of foam. Smell is thick, sweet, dyrupy, roasty. Taste is full, roasty, sweet. Boozy, bourbon, oak. Tad too boozy for me. A really nice beer nevertheless.

Bottle shared at Not Breaking The Bake’s Tasting. Black with a small brown head. Aroma of oak, bourbon, dark chocolate, roast, vanilla, coffee and light coconut notes. Flavour is light heavy sweet and bitter. Full bodied with a thick texture, big alcohol warmth and soft carbonation.

Smak >> aromat. W aromacie delikatne, troche nijakie, a w uscie sie pojawia fajnie czeko-kawo-beczkowe, gladkie, slodkie. Robi wrazenie.

Bottle thanks to JMFP. Pours black with small tan head that lasts. The aroma is roast, wood, vanilla, cocoa, bourbon.Thick body, chewy roast milk chocolate, vanilla, roast, oak, smooth, hides alcohol well, really enjoyed this.