8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Rating number 8,750. 16 ounce can from Tavour. Mahogany brown pour. Fluffy beige head slowly dissipates to a manageable cap. Aromas of sweet toasted malt, brown sugar, dark dried fruits and oak. Flavor upfront is bittersweet and boozy. Notes of rum, oak, toffee, vanilla and resiny hops. Mildly complexity and sophisticatedly elegant. Best barleywine I’ve had in some time.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 21 Jan 2026
at 05:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint can pours with a nice dark colored body that supports a nice full tan head of foam. The aroma offers up . . . oh Jesus! this is straight up banana with hints of roasted to dark roasted malts just on the periphery of the aromatic experience. Whoa, the taste delivers banana from front to back with modest booziness and roasted malts in the background. As it warms a bit the roastiness and roasted coffee do build a meager semblance of "balance." OK.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 20 Jan 2026
at 05:09
16 oz can purchased as a single at The Wine Thief & Ale Jail in Crystal, Minnesota. The pour is an opaque black brown with a one inch khaki head that falls relatively quickly. The aroma is caramel, sweet apple, roast, char malt and a bit of toffee. The taste is roast malt, toffee and caramel malt sweetness, cinnamon, sweet apple and more of the char roast malt to the back. As it warms, a bunch of cinnamon and apple in the aftertaste. The palate is medium to heavier boded, soft natural carbonation and a cinnamon apple dry char finish. Nice integration of the alcohol, would not have guessed this was 12%.
Tried
from Can
from
The Wine Thief & Ale Jail - Crystal
on 20 Jan 2026
at 01:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is coffee and a little blackberry with a very light hint of vanilla. Black with a medium tan head. Flavor is light sweetness, a hint of tartness, and a prickly feeling on my tongue and mouth.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 19 Jan 2026
at 20:30
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Apple pie, not exactly a flavor I would conjure up for an imperial stout. 16 oz can out of the four pack of Grand Prix imperial stouts obtained from Gold Eagle in the Chicago area. My snifter from Great Heights is in place before I make the pour. It does look like an impy but there is a definite smell of apples in the air, a first for me for any beer. The taste is, well, it is unique, apple pie somehow crust and all, some chocolate, malt, coffee and spices of some kind. A full sensation, that is good. Not a beer I pursue again but I will appreciate what I have.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2026
at 02:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can with Roman M at Drinkøteka, thx! Pitch black body, tan head. Cocoa, caramel, and heaps of coffee in the aroma. Smooth, creamy and yet dry enough taste, bitter, cocoa nutty, coffee, bit herbal, ending with a good level of bitterness. Not life-changing, refreshingly bitter, a good one.
Tried
from Can
from
Drinkøtéka
on 16 Jan 2026
at 22:39
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, without much of the coffee notes I usually find in Alesmith’s imperial stouts. Black with a medium cinnamon tan head. Flavor is moderately sweet with a lot of flavor from the 32 months in Willett Bourbon Barrels. Nice traditional bourbon barrel stout with no pile of adjuncts.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 15 Jan 2026
at 02:16
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Pint can pours with a clear brown mahogany copper hued body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up woodiness and booze to start and then reveals plum like fruity esters that might also be part of the rum character. The taste is straight up oak like woodiness bleeding into plum to raisin and then sweeter boozier rum like sherry and brown sugar character. The woodiness and booze are the defining notes but this does round out into a really nice sipper. Yes.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 12 Jan 2026
at 04:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is oak, vanilla caramels, toffee, biscuits, and a hint of bourbon. Very dark, obscure except on the edges, hazy brown with a medium tan head. Flavor is lightly sweet with a smoothness I find in really expensive wheated or rye whiskey.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 12 Jan 2026
at 01:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can from Alesmiths. Nose is coffee, cocoa, roast, and nuts. Black with a big cinnamon colored head. Flavor is light sweetness contrasting with a background bit of bittersweet chocolate along with the nuts.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 10 Jan 2026
at 20:57