12oz @ 🏡 shared with Phill and Alex.
Aroma: oak, some red wine, sweetness, caramel, dark red fruits.
Taste: along the same lines, nice integration of flavours.
Overall: cool and complex, good one.

Canned 1/10/25, the only batch thus far, drunk 12/31/25, as pictured.
Oh boy...this could be a banger...!! Smell is a near-perfect balance of rich, not too sweet malt and big barrel but not so much as too be austere or over-barreled feeling. Vintage mahogany, vanilla, spicy rye and succulent caramel and English toffee for days...no alcohol noted. Not too fruity, not too tannic. Not too much raisin/prune/plum.
Richly-malted with cherry, vanilla, date and plum, but not aggressively fruity or anything, nor is it too sweet. Really nice balance, thick and malty but not syrupy. Definitely hear them on the "most wood-focused beer to-date". But it's not too much; it's wonderful and rich and not too intense or overbearingly dry, spicy, tannic or boozey. Weird that this beer seemingly flew under the radar. It was available quite a few times on Tavour, and didn't sell out the 2nd+ times. It's an absolute stunningly-balanced gem with a near-perfect amount of barrel expression. And even more impressive, it's in perfect drinking shape after not even a year in can (with plenty more years to gracefully go, it seems). At 14%, you definitely start to feel the alcohol build on the palate, on the finish, but there's zero sharp/heat/alcohol flavor at any point.