From a 12 oz. bottle. Pours black with a tan head. Aromas of coconut, bourbon and vanilla with some dark chocolate. Flavors are moderate sweet bourbon barrel. Finish is dry and boozy. Complex and tasty.

Draft @ The Stein & Vine. Noire sur un col léger café au lait, le tout sur léger doré au verre. Arôme sur un bouquet mettant bien en avant les 12%, le tout sur un effet marqué de caramel - effet du peanut butter? Bourbon est plaisant sur de fines effluves de vanille. Retrouve un léger chocolaté. Palais est boozy, malté et chocolaté, belle rondeur de café et de vanille sur les apports de boisé et chêne américain. Le palais est plutôt épais, rondeur rappelant le fudge - peanut?

Absolutely luscious nose of vanilla, oak, bourbon, Rye, dark chocolate and a touch of peanut butter in the nose. Fucking amazing nose. Beautiful mouth that is slightly seeet with peanut butter, oak, bourbon, milk chocolate, toasted coconuts, slightly sweet. Perfectly balance. Medium carbonation. Alcohol is well hidden. So perfectly put together. Lingering toasted coconut, bourbon, chocolate finish. Tounge tingles in the finish. Wow.

12 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 11/7/2017. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, caramel, brown sugar, marshmallow, toffee, fudge, bourbon, rye whiskey, coconut, toasted oak, and dark/brown bread; with light notes of molasses, raisins, smoke, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity or dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, coffee, and rye/bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, caramel, brown sugar, marshmallow, toffee, fudge, bourbon, rye whiskey, coconut, toasted oak, and dark/brown bread; with light notes of molasses, raisins, smoke, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Very mild roast/char bitterness and bourbon/rye/oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, caramel, brown sugar, marshmallow, toffee, fudge, bourbon, rye whiskey, coconut, toasted oak, dark/brown bread, light molasses/smoke, and roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, coffee, and rye/bourbon barrel flavors; with an awesome roasted bitter/sweet and rye/bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with zero cloying/acrid flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy, silky, velvety, and rich mouthfeel that is fantastic. Minimal chalky roast, oak tannins, or dryness. Mildly warming alcohol for 12%, with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an amazing barrel aged imperial porter! All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, coffee, and rye/bourbon barrel flavors; insanely smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. Extremely rich porter malt complexity and balanced vanilla/coffee flavors; with perfect barrel integration. Never boozy, tannic, or drying. Not overly roasty or bitter on malts/hops. A highly amazing offering, and spot on style example. One of the smoothest BBA beers I have had.

Poured from bottle maybe dated 10/17 hard to tell brown almost black with a beige head. Aroma is rye bourbon coffee faint vanilla and oak. Taste is boozy charred oak bitter coffee vanilla and spicy rue bourbon. Flavor continues to change as it warms. Damn this is good. Gonna let the others sit for a year.

Hot as hell. Let is sit.