One of many HBH barrel aged beers, devised by a hobby brewer based in Lokeren who does nothing else but barrel ageing, originally having execute his products at Alvinne but now – since a couple of years already – at Deca in Woesten. This one is apparently a quad aged on barrels previously containing bourbon of the familiar Buffalo Trace brand, oddly spelled ‘Buffalo Tracé’ on the label. Medium thick, pale greyish beige, moussy head, slowly diminishing over a misty ruddy bronze-brown beer with wine red glow. Aroma of very evident bourbon heavily lying over candi sugar, vanilla-breathing oak wood, plum jam, walnut purée, tea, rosehip, medlar, dried fig, red apple peel, brown bread, ‘boerenjongens’ but also ‘oude jenever’ and shoe polish. Sweet onset, clear dark candi sugar, fruity notes of medlar, pear and date, some dried plum and candied cherry perhaps, finely but actually strongly carbonated; brown-bready and caramelly maltiness with toffeeish and even very lightly toasty-bitterish edge, gently dried by woody tannins (vanillin returning retronasally) and earthy hops, but most of all dominated by heating, bittersweet, very ‘full-tasting’ and recognizable bourbon, also dragging solventy effects (varnish, shoe polish) in its trail. The booziness can be expected from such a beer (certainly after having had several other HBH beers) but the solventy effects bothered me a bit; other than that, this was among the more tasty, classy and balanced ones in the series so far (for me) and I am confident that the booze and the solvents will be shaved off a bit after some years of cellaring. More than decent, all things considered.