500mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany, tiny head. Aroma is full of bourbon barrels, brown sugar, molasses, and caramel. Flavour has burnt brown sugars, caramel malt, molasses, and complex, deep bourbon barrels. Rich, complex, balanced; not too sweet despite all the sugars. Exceptional.

Tap. Pours clear chestnut, small beige head, minimal lacing. Aroma is rich dark sugars, werthers, bourbon, vanilla, oak. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium plus body, bit of heat 4,8,8,4,16

Poured from a 500l bottle. Aroma is rich and full of dark caramel and toffee notes with quite a bit of burnt sugar, molasses, Tootsie Rolls and toasted bread. Faint notes of burnt bread, roast and chocolate. Light notes of raisin and date. Light bourbon and alcohol notes with faint oak. Hints of leather and tobacco. Pours an almost black color with dark brown hues on the edges and a small, thin, mocha head that recedes quickly and disappears. No lacing and fairly long legs. Flavor is rather sweet with lots of dark caramel, toffee, molasses and burnt sugar. Quite a bit of toasted bread, graham crackers and Tootsie Roll notes. Hints of roast and chocolate. Moderate bitterness and medium low alcohol notes. Medium light bourbon notes and hints of oak. Hints of raisin, date and prune with a bit of leather and tobacco as well. Mouthfeel is full bodied and a bit silky with low carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid BA barleywine. Nice bourbon and malt notes. A rather dark malt profile, but without the stronger chocolate and roast notes you would see in a barleywine & stout blend. Instead the caramel and toffee notes are dark. Alcohol notes are well balanced but still allow the bourbon character to show through.