Almost black colour. Head is light but also rocky. The aroma is a bit woody, roasty and chocolatey. The body is way too fizzy and overwhelmingly woody.

2005 bottle shared with SuIIy on 11/23/05. The bottle says it is unfiltered and unpasteurized, but yet, the beer pours the most fizzy, clear thing I have seen lately. If this isn’t forced carbonation, than it’s the strangest natural carbonation I’ve ever experienced. Deep cola brown, somewhat dull, not much in the auburn-red tinged department, as some deeper colored stouts have. Tan-beige head is mountainous and very very slow to recede. Lacing present. Aroma of straight bourbon, dry and lightly alcoholic, with light vanilla and very dry wood. Hints of baker’s chocolate, some light yeast and very little else. No sweet malt, no creamy oat-like notes, no hops. Flavor is full bourbon. Hints of peanut skins, salt, seltzer water and alcohol. Pure bourbon, dry wood and light roast. It’s not that the bourbon is overdone here, it’s just that the beer is underdone. No malt sugars, little if any chocolate or roast. Body seems very filtered, though they say it is not. Carbonation is omnipresent, sharp, obtrusive and very high. Texture is watery, loose, prickly and thin on end. As it warms, the aroma takes on a note of glue or hot plastic.

Totally opaque pour with a massive, long lasting tan head - aroma of bourbon, vanilla, oak, alcohol - a bit thin on the palate - not many oatmeal stout characteristics besides a hint of lactose - mostly, the wood and bourbon from the barrel overpower whatever other flavors the beer has - if you want a similar experience, soak a tongue depressor in whiskey and suck on it.