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
8.69
ABV: 15.0% IBU: - Ticks: 19
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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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


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


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

pitch black color. Nice dark fruit, dark chocolate, oak, bourbon, very sharp and dry nose, very similar to other side projects. Almost no carbonation, booziness derived from the bourbon. Sharp as fuck. Still very drinkable for the style. Hard to believe this is world class but still amazing beer

Tried on 18 Jun 2024 at 08:03


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

375ml bottle purchased at Ale Arsenal as the first event of SF Beer Week. What a legendary tasting this was! Massively complex beer that marries well. Overt chocolate, treacle, booze and vanilla. Pours black with deep brown highlights, and basically no head. Flavor is chocolate, dark fruit, whiskey, boozy and malt. Viscous mouthfeel. This was incredibly complex and enjoyable. Opened up nicely as well to give more layered flavors and aroma.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2024 at 17:51


9

Thick and syrupy, somewhat boozy. Toffee, vanilla, dark chocolate after warming up. Bourbon, some licorice. Rich and smooth, excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2023 at 15:30


9.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle, 375 ml, shared with Luka and Miro B. Black with almost no head. Dense chocolate, cocoa, fudge, lots of barrel, intensive bourbon, moderate sweetness, oily. Getting better as it warms up.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2023 at 20:20