8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice sweet chocolate roast malts vanilla bourbon barrels. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate roast malts vanilla plenty bourbon barrel.

7.9

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

Poured from a 500 ml bottle. Aroma is malt forward with lots of bitter and dark chocolate, lighter notes of caramel and hints of roast. Moderately strong barrel notes with rum bourbon and light oak and alcohol notes. Hints of dark fruit. Pours jet black with a small, thick, dark mocha head that recedes steadily to a small film that lingers on the edges. Light lacing and fairly long legs. Flavor is fairly sweet with fairly strong dark and bitter chocolate notes and quite a bit of caramel. Lighter roast notes and hints of leather and dark fruit. Medium high bitterness and light alcohol notes. Moderately strong oak, rum and bourbon notes. Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low, but present astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid imperial stout with a ton of barrel character. The rum character is a bit overpowering for me, but it has nice dark fruit notes and balances out the bourbon character.

8.1

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

Poured from a 500 ml bottle. Aroma is malt forward with really nice chocolate notes and lighter roast character. Medium light vanilla notes with lighter notes of bourbon and oak and hints of almond. Light alcohol notes. Pours jet black with a medium small, thick, mocha colored head that recedes steadily to a small film that lingers on the edges. Light lacing and fairly long legs. Flavor is rather sweet with lots of dark and bitter chocolate malt notes. Lighter notes of caramel and hints of roast. Moderate bitterness and light alcohol notes. Light bourbon notes and hints of almond, oak and faint notes of raisin and dark fruit. Mouthfeel is rather full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, a really nice BA stout. The barrel character and vanilla works well the chocolate forward, malt character. Alcohol is fairly well hidden.

8

Pork belly burn ends and private press, what a combo 😃 the meat is excellent the beer is okay.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle thanks to Peeter. Pours a dark amber with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is dark fruit, caramel, brown sugar, booze. Slick body, raisin, fig, caramel, brown sugar, nice sweetness, boozy, very nice.

9

LCI, strong ale deliciousness just as expected.

8.1

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

50cl bottle pours with a deep dark mahogany colored body that supports a thin light tan ring of foam. The modest aroma offers up a thin bouquet of malts to include sweet crystal malts and a blend of rye bread and vegan enhanced cracker. The taste delivers smooth soft modestly sweet maltiness blended with a fair load of boozy bourbon barrel character. The maltiness takes on an earthy grainy to kind of rye deli cracker (if that's a thing). This is pretty nice and it has a pretty nice balance between barrel character and beer. It comes across a little shallow and seems to be missing a bit of sweet dark fruit estery depth.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Pours opaque mahogany with minimal head and wispy lacing. Aroma is cocoa, vanilla, bourbon, brown sugar, toffee; bit of an eclipse vibe to it, i guess that's the honey talking. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, balanced and integrated. Medium plus body, silky mouthfeel, lingering boozy chocolate.

8

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

Bottle. Pours inky black, minimal head or lacing. Aroma is chocolate, nuts, coffee grounds, liquor, hint of cherry. Flavor is really sweet, light bitter. Medium body, low carbonation.

8

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