Side Project Brewing Beer : Barrel : Time - Van Winkle (2023)

Beer : Barrel : Time - Van Winkle (2023)

 

Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production
Score
8.66
ABV: 15.0% IBU: - Ticks: 24
In September 2020, a great barrel broker friend of ours offered us the chance to buy twenty 10-year-old Van Winkle barrels. Luckily, we had my favorite recipe already fermenting away, O.W.K. This batch hit all its numbers and was then racked to our first Van Winkle barrels – this beer represents a blend of the first BBT from single-source distillery barrels.

These barrels found their way into Beer : Barrel : Time 2022, OWK 2023, and 8 Candles. The heart of the blend was chosen last fall for this 10-year anniversary beer – Van Winkle BBT 2023.
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks to Leighton. A chewy thick brown coloured pour with a halo. Of tan head. Aroma is intense rum raisin, brown sugars, cinnamon. Earthy roast. Chewy, cakey malts. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, oily, chewy, brown sugars, boozy, raisin. Intense, cakey malts, toffee, chewy apple. Palate is thick intense. Chewy, Warming alcohol.

Tried on 28 Jan 2026 at 22:50


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

Bottle at CBJ Tasting. Oily of appearance. Aroma is boozy with dark fruit and molasses. Flavourwise it's quite smooth - dark dough, spice, chewy, dark fruit. Thick. Oily. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Easy going.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2025 at 13:14


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

10th December 2025
Tasting at CBJ, thanks to Leighton for the panda. Opaque dark brown beer, small bubbly dark tan head. Smooth palate, fairly light, reasonable fine carbonation, fine for this brew. Smooth if fairly light bodied dark malts, smooth chocolate. Massive bourbon but not too boozy or spicy. Ripe bourbon soaked fruits. Fabulously drinkable.

Tried on 10 Dec 2025 at 18:51


9.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Big and well rounded. Roast. Good roast. Vanilla. Nice toasted toffee. Super smooth. Boozy but not hot. Sweet but not cloying. Great depth. Creamy vanilla, bourbon. Outstanding.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2025 at 20:21


8.6
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2025 at 20:18


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle split at the Craft Beer Junction tasting, thanks to LKS, 12/11/2025.
Pitch black topped with a khaki head that escapes to the edge.
Nose is big on bourbon, ripe dark fruit rinds, chocolate melt, molasses.
Taste comprises big ballsy barrel tones, chocolate, light spice, coconut, bourbon, fruit cake mix.
Full bodied, oily feel, light drying close with a balanced rising boost.
Solid kit from the top drawer.

Tried on 12 Nov 2025 at 00:00


10

Helt nydelig

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2025 at 20:35


9.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle, many thanks CS! Thicc black color with no head. Aroma is super nutty, caramel, vanilla, chocolate. Taste is intense barrel, caramel, nuts, thicc & luscious, rich af. Viscous mouthfeel. Very, very good!

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:16


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

375ml bottle pours out black topped with a small ring of a brown head. Nose is big rich chocolate fudge some tobacco leather bourbon barrel vanilla coffee. Taste is more of the nice big rich roast malts chocolate coffee great barrel treatment.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Nov 2024 at 22:19


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head. Aroma is malts, soy sauce. Flavor is malts, soy sauce, bitter, brown malts. Lingering malty bitterness with soy sauce. Thick texture, full body, decent to medium carbonation. Quite insane. 8-8,5-8,5-10-8,5

Tried on 24 Aug 2024 at 17:50