8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Roast and barrel, whiskey. Pours black with mocha head. Solid beer for a Costco special. Props to them for tapping Deschutes for a brew. Bitter end with some coffee, dark chocolate. Slightly oily consistency. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2026
at 00:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Pour is more of a bronze with a large white head. Aroma is a nice bready malt. Flavor is an even more pronounced bready malt with a very minor hop kick. I heard they are going to discontinue this soon, so I'm glad I got to try it. Very nice helles.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2026
at 22:31
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pretty darn tasty for a standard Helles lager, crisp and grainy with notes of cut grass, a touch of lemon and honey, and a mild floral bitterness on the back end. Not too shabby.
Tried
from Can
on 09 May 2026
at 00:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Near black pour with a small tan head. Bourbon heavy aroma. Caramel, roast malt, oak, chocolate. It also tastes bourbon heavy. It’s a little hot even with some aging but it’s still good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2026
at 05:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Boxed Bomber (22 Fl Oz), a present from my daughter and drank at her place in Laguna Hills on 17th March 2026. Dark, moody look, fast fading tanned head. Boozy, malty and fairly rich in body depth. Soft chocolate undertones, smooth nutty traces. Liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2026
at 21:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
Clear, bright, dark brown color with a small beige head; aroma of vanilla, molasses; thick palate; balanced flavor with a long, light bitter sweet finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2026
at 03:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Black beer with a brown head. Bourbon and chocolate aroma with light coffee. Bourbon and dark fruit flavor with chocolate and light roast. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and roast linger with bourbon and light dark fruit.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2026
at 18:27
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle. Poured a nearly pitch black color with a small white head. Aroma was vanilla, woody vanilla bourbon, but not overpowering barrel. Nice bakers chocolate, decent and not overpowering barrel flavor, but not hot. A little thinner than I expected it to be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2026
at 18:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
12 oz can from a 12 pack. Aroma is sweet malts, grassy. Pours hazy golden with a one+ finger bone-white head with decent retention. Taste has a bready malt sweetness backed by light building to moderate herbal hop bitterness. Finishes dry. Crisp, clean, and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2025
at 01:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled as a vertical with the 2024. Decided to finish this off since I can still get another 2025. An identical brown-to-black beer under a fizzy tan head. The more recent beer's head fizzes away pretty quickly. Nose starts with mostly stout roasted malts, not much bourbon or wood to it. The fact that they don't describe any specific bourbons whose barrels were used suggests only that they wanted to source as many as they could to make their production. It's very fizzy, with some brusque malts and extra sweetness, all things that will likely fade over time. As a "fresh" BBA stout, it's still rough around the edges, but then I don';t to many of these this "young."
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2025
at 05:48