9.1

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a dark brown foamy head with some retention and some lacing notes. Aroma of chocolate notes with some bourbon/vanilla and some light coffee notes. Taste is also a mix of chocolate notes with some bourbon/vanilla and light coffee notes and faint residual sugar notes. Body is full with an oily texture and good carbonation with some discernible alcohol notes. Very well balanced barrel-aged stout with a mix of bourbon notes and faint coffee notes.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can outta the Brew Export Advent Calendar. Aroma has an initial sourness, followed by coffee, nuts snd cacao. Sweet edge. Slightly opaque gold. Thick foamy white head. Flavourwise it's got a central core that's bitter - mocha. However this is surrounded by tangy berries over sweet caramel and a nuttiness and malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick verging on oily. Soft-flat carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Typically for the style it's all rather sugary, if carmalized rather than saccharine. I guess I like it.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft. Murky brown beer with a tan head. Bourbon and toffee aroma. Bourbon and big vanilla flavor with caramel/toffee. Medium-plus bodied. Bourbon and big vanilla linger with caramel and light dark fruit.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can, undated as far as I can tell, but purchased recently and matching the 2025 abv on UT, though not the description. In fact, I can't make much sense of any of the descriptions. The can I'm drinking does not specify a bourbon, nor does it use rye barrels, and is listed at 18 months of aging. Drunk 12/18/25, as pictured.
Smells sticky-sweet with lots of gooey, cakey vanilla and toffee. Bourbon just present enough to mostly balance, though I wouldn't hate a bit more. Some peppery heat but no overt alcohol.
More bourbon in the flavor, thankfully, with a pineapple and coconut (light) character from the wood and liquor. Peppery, dry heat with rich fig, toffee and vanilla. Lingering bourbon spice with a nearly syrupy texture at points, though ending a bit more dry than it begins. Very burly, big, rich and intense.

7.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sample, thanks fonefan! Clear deep mahogany colour, no head. Some caramel and dates lures behind the intense bourbon in the nose. Sweet with full body and velvetty, rounded mouthfeel. Dates, honey and caramel creates a velvetty foundation. Bourbony oak, dates and spicy leaves sits on top. Warming mid bitter finish. Lovely softness, still it gets a bit one dimensional with all that bourbon.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at the Beer Temple, Amsterdam. Poured almost black in colour, with little life. The aroma is roasty, chocolate. The flavour is moderate liquorice bitter and sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, chocolate, liquorice, earthy, warm boozy alcohol bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

From tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Aroma is vanilla and bourbon, alcohol, dark malt, a little marzipan and sugar. Sweet flavour with a boozy finish. Rich and sugary with some nice Bourbon notes.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Appearance is amber, with a foamy 2-finger beige head. Aroma is hops, coffee and chocolate, toasty malt, caramel, toffee hints. Taste is caramel and chocolate, toffee, vanilla, nutty malt, fruitcake, hazelnut coffee, sweet malt and toffee. Works quite well.