Pours a deep brown. Not much head. Plum, fruit, raspberry. Sticky yeast. Kind of like a barley wine or a dubbel

tap in Charlottesville. Best beer I tried from South Street. Awesome belgian/strong ale - big flavor, complex and strong. Nice!

Total Wine, Fairfax bottle: poura dark amber with large head. Exagerrated amber ale aroma coupled with some hops and bourbon barrel. Tatse is lightly bitter, quite sweet. Very much not my style of beer.

Copper and light amber coloured body with a crystal-clear glow of amber and a thin, two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of boozey oak, vanilla, bourbon, malt, earth and a bit of nuts - but the alcohol and bourbon notes are intense throughout. Medium-bodied; Assertive oaky and bourbon elements at first give way to a light vanilla and sweet note of caramel and toffee, with a lightish malt body and a hit of grain. Aftertaste shows more of the oak, the vanilla, the bourbon and especially the alcohol. Some sweetness comes through at the very end with some apples and other fruit elements beating out the caramel and toffee sweetness along with the more astringent alcohol flavours. Overall, a decent beer that shows what a bourbon barrel can do - strong flavours, a touch strong (at this very early stage) with some nuances that lend nice touches to beers that may already be good on their own. That said, this was a very fresh bottle (very unlikely for me) that showed decently, but is a bit harsh around the edges. Even if I waited my typical two+ years to sample a beer like this, it probably wouldn’t have been as good as I wanted it to bed. That said, it’s perhaps worth trying, especially if you like local barrel aged beers. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Costco in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia on 25-September-2016 for US$8,89, with an ’enjoy by’ date of 03-July-2017, sampled at home in Washington on 02-October-2016.

Keg at the brewpub, 3/19/16. Hazy amber, large creamy white head, good retention. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla and caramel. The taste is bourbon, caramel, vanilla, oak, toasted malt. Medium bodied, bland. If someone were to set out to make a completely generic barrel aged beer, this would be it.

On draft at the brewery it is a clear Amber color and the aroma is a sweet toffee and the taste is a syrupy taste of whisky and hints of coconut a very sweet toffee finish

On draft at the brewery. Pours a clear mahogany with an off white head. Toffee aroma. Flavors of caramel and whiskey. Sweet finish.

750ml bottle, picked up from Costco, I think. Poured a clear amber color with a small tan head. Aroma was vanilla, wood, caramel malts. Bourbon barrel aged character really comes out in this one. Vanilla, woody. Tasty.