9 4 9 3 17 Bottle shared At Murphy’s Law. Black with a small and short lived brown head. Aroma of big bourbon, maple, vanilla and oak barrel with milk chocolate, coffee and cacao. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Full bodied with alcohol warmth in the finish and soft carbonation.

Pieona, waniliowo-kokosowo,bombonierokowa paleta, sporo slodyczy, gladkie, intensywne, od pytonga owocowej kawy. Syropu troszke. Czad.

Bottle, courtesy of Connor. Shared at Cloudwater. Cheers pal! Nearly black. Ring of tan head. Nose has melted chocolate. Vanilla pod. Fudge. Milky coffee. Some barrel character. Taste is sweet and chocolatey. Some woody bitterness. Mouthfeel is rich and smooth. Drinks silly easy at the ABV. Silky chocolate and coffee to finish. Very nice.

Bottle, shared at tasting. Pours opaque black, very small beige head, dissipates quickly, some lacing. Aroma is cocoa, bourbon, vanilla, maple, mocha. Flavor is fully sweet and light plus bitter. Medium body. Good.

2017 bottle shared by AdamC on 7/7/17.
Inky/oilly, pitch black, undetermined clarity, assumedly opaque.
Smells very rich and intense and quite good. There’s a ton of moderately fudgey caramel-chocolate up front, with vanilla filling out the edges, but it transitions quickly to more dry bourbon notes and finally plentiful acidity from the coffee and dark malts. Really enjoyable cherry-vanilla-like character created from the mix of the barrel/bourbon and base malt with no overdone coffee, toasted oak or even alcohol. Surprising, given how young it is.
Slick, with intense vanilla and strong cherry and fudge flavors. Huge amounts of base malt provide a very malty, soft texture with low but engaging carbonation keeping it buoyant. The oak and/or bourbon provides a lot of coconut but there’s enough malt to soak it up and it doesn’t seem to dominate. With warming, more cherry, moderate tar and long toffee notes emerge to add complexity and dry the beer out slightly, in concert with roasted acidity. The very spritzy, tight carbonation, barrel tannin and acidity here provide enough balance and the beer shows enough attenuation to prevent it from coming off syrupy, even despite the massive amount of malt/sugar in here. Long, long, complex, lingering flavors of bourbon, fruit and coffee. Alcohol pretty well-concealed underneath all of the malt. Very pleasant surprise to find this not a syrup/fudge/bourbon bomb. Reminds me a lot of Cycle.

On tap at Bottlecraft Little Italy, San Diego. Pours black with small tan head. Roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, nuts, nutella, vanilla, sweet. Oily texture, soft carbonation. Warming, some bourbon. Full bodied.

Bottle shared by AdamChandler, dude, much thanks! Pours pitch black with a thin brown head. Aromas of vanilla, mellow bourbon, light notes of coconut.

Flavor of cocoa, steady roast, toffee, and lasting bourbon. Full, thick, chewy body with lingering vanilla. ABV is pretty hidden, 12.5 %? No way! Damn, so good.