Bottle. Pours clear dark brown with a brown head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma is full of roasted malts with a relatively strong dark fruit note as well a chocolate and a bit of an alcohol note. The flavor has a decent amount of alcohol present, but it is accompanied by chocolate roasted malts and a hint of dark fruits.

Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite - Jersey City, 2/17/11

Aroma: Immediately this one hits you with tons of whiskey right on the nose, there's a little bit of a pine hop presence and rye hiding in there, but it is completely overpowered by the booze
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear reddish-orange color with an off-white head and decent lace
Flavor: More balanced than the nose, whiskey flavors, hop bitterness, spice, caramel, and pine
Palate: This one drinks pretty smoothly, the carbonation is fairly soft, some heat is also present
Overall Impression: Look, I enjoy a good barrel aged beer, but if I wanted to drink a whiskey I would have bought a whiskey. This one just got completely overpowered by the booze to the point that it didn't really work for me. It isn't bad, but I just don't really like how the barrel aging accented (or overpowered) this one. I just don't like my IIPAs to taste like a bottle of whiskey. If it accents the beer, fine, but if it overpowers it, it just doesn't work for me. I don't know, I'm torn on this one.

hazy brown, smooth white head. delicate complex oaked, whiskey, dusty sweet hops aroma. pretty fantastic flavor is sweet, spicy, dusty hoppy, sweet malty, wood, whiskey, delicious

22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark orange to light brown with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight yeasty, Dark malty. Solid hoppy, fruity and slight pinewood to grapefruity. Ends bitter and citrusy.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of Myrup. Pours a clear amber with a small off-white head. Intense aroma of caramel, licorice allsorts and some spicy American hops. Solid body, sweet caramel, Bourbon? and a solid hoppy finish. 130211

Bottle. Pours dark. Nose of lager malt, raisin and light hops. Taste of raisin, lager malt and light toffee.

Draught at Ginger Man in NYC. Pours black with tan head. Nose and taste of tons of malts, dried fig, raisin, licorice candy, apple and toffee. Medium body.

22oz bomber. Pours a viscous brown-black, opaque. Big soapy beige-brown head. 14 malts and 14 hops, I can dig it. Wow. This beer is awesome. Big and rich, but smoother and easier to drink than a lot of beers that are in the 8-9% range. Big complex malt tones..brown sugar, caramel, toffee. Becomes a little more rugged as you sip on it, big sticky mouthfeel. Refined and complex.

Bottle. Pours an extremely dark brown with a a brown head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma had a relatively strong alcohol note as well as a dark bread note with a good amount of chocolate and toffee. Flavor began with a bit of alcohol but had a really nice chocolate bread note as well as a hint of toffee.

Enjoyed from the \"Bargain Bucket\" with friends at the Globe Pub in Chicago, IL. Appearance a somewhat cloudy amber with a rich white head. Aroma caramel and hops, also a bit of yeast. Taste alcohol and beef jerky, really strong, also a bit of malt I guess, just really potent stuff, its decent.