Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Hmmm, this is going to look bad, but I was drinking imperial stouts with ChrisQ and came upon this one, never having heard of Barley Brothers. I tried it and decided I would rate it so that I just wasnt reviewing beers I liked all fest. So this isnt me being cynical or trying to be controversial or anything like that, just my honest, unbiased opinion.

So the beer pours a dark, deep brownish-black, pretty typical, with a thin, receding light tan head. Aroma is full of dry roast, nuts, burnt coffee and bitter, leafy, dry hops. Flavor takes the dryness, bitterness and roastedness and amplifies it. Grainy, sandy, gritty, bready, biscuity. However you want to say it, but with a strange sourness, bordering on astringency. But all of this is quickly washed away in a flood of thin, oxidized wateriness. Bland coffee roast, lightly dry prune-raisins. Seems dirty and like they shook up the keg, let all the pressure out and mixed in all of the bland yeast. A horrible mess of a beer, most exacerbated by the extreme wateriness. Had it on Saturday, maybe something went wrong between thursday and then?