Bourbon Barrel Smoked Stout
Bluegrass Brewing Company in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Smoked Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.07
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A standard American stout by style, however aged in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels for 90 days. This full bodied stout presents with a black opaque appearance due to the heavy doses of dark malts and roasted barley. A blend of the dark grains, a portion of smoked malt, and a generous amount of pale malt lends to a filling and warming beer with notes of bourbon, caramel, coffee, toffee and smoke. With the complement of conditioning on a Woodford Reserve Barrel for 3 months the stout finishes with a deliciously balanced melding of barrel aged character and the smooth silky flavor of a well made st
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
I believe this is the right beer - seems hard to get the exact right bottle, with so many similar named beers by the same brewery! Deep pitch black coloured body with a dense fast-dying tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, milk, alcohol, bourbon, vanilla (strong), glue/paste, a touch of caramel and some nice sweetness. Medium to Full-bodied; Deep chewy mouthful of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate (lightish), raisins, sugar, bourbon, vanilla and cookies - crazy sweet and pretty potent. Aftertaste is strong, but very subtle and hides with the good balance of sweetness and alcohol without any harsh bittering flavours at all. Overall, a very well balanced, complex and well-executed beer especially for the style. You could drink a lot of these without knowing its potency or flavour profile, but you’d probably be showing it after 2 or 3! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Chantilly, Virginia on 14-July-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 28-July-2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2010
at 23:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at The Pub in downtown Louisville, Fourth Street Live. Pours opaque black with dark brown highlights and a medium beige head. Aroma is bourbon with a hint of chocolate, and taste is good chocolate, toffee, bourbon, some coffee, and a hint of smoke. Good beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2010
at 18:07