Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Brown with an amber hue. Small head. Aroma and taste is complex, very much like a high rated doppelbock.

Meh. I expected better.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Mostly clear dark black body with a small creamy tan head and ruby highlights. Roast chocolate caramel toffee aroma. Roast molasses toffee caramel flavor. Medium full body moderate carbonation. 7/5/8/4/16 4.0

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Refrigerated 11.2 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Aroma is caramel, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is wood, malt, and some bourbon.

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

Pour is a black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malt a huge coconut and oak barrel with some booze. Flavor is a minor roasted malt but all things bourbon barrel. Nice char oak with coconut and bourbon. Alcohol is here all over the place but not too heavy but just enough to warm the chest. This was awesome stuff! They got everything they could out of the barrel and then some. Average base beer but this is all about the bourbon barrel.

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

Bottle (2/14/19?) pour from BevMax, Hamden. Appearance is very, very dark (almost opaque) brown with nice sparkle, finger-width khaki head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong bourbon and caramel with hints of brown sugar and dark fruit. Taste is strong bourbon, caramel, hint of chocolate and dark fruit. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, soft carbonation, nice alcohol warmth and finish as taste. Overall, dominated by strong, but not overwhelming, bourbon but caramel comes through. I wish the chocolate and dark fruit came through a bit stronger.

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

Bottle. Black beer with a dark cream head. Bourbon and light vanilla aroma. Bourbon and light chocolate flavor with light caramel and spice. Medium bodied. Bourbon and light chocolate linger with light caramel and spice.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours dark brown with a creamy beige/tan had. Aroma of bourbon fighting with quite roasty malt. It's almost like candy. In a good way. Full body or nearly. Flavor is very roasty malt, turbinado sugar, bourbon. Not quite getting wood; I think the bourbon obscures it. Clearly high quality bourbon. Just excellent.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On draft at Dominion Wine and Beer. Pours a cola brown with an ecru head. Strong barrel flavors but not boozy.