5.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Must be a 2024 version because my can was listed at 12.4% 12oz can to go from the brewery. Pours a dark cola brown, a ring of beige head. A little leggy. Nose had booze off the top, raisins and dates after it settles. Big booze and its mudded barrels. This can says spirit, not Buffalo Trace, and it reads more sherry and rum than BTAC. Flavor has heavy cocoa and vanilla, some coconut, some booze. Plenty of black licorice. The barrel is raw and again doesn't read bourbon. Full bodied with a faux dryness that must be from the cocoa because it is deeply sweet. It's just messy. Or rough around the edges.