on tap pours dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is sweet spicy malt and brown sugar. Sweet licorice and bready malts lots of yeast character. Nice, but the barrel really isn’t adding anything for me.

draft at TBBC. pours dark brown, tan head. aroma fig, dark fruits, caramel and a mild butterscotch touch. Aroma was rather muted. flavors, nice warming malty/caramel mouthfeel, some fresh hops coupled with light roast. Dark fruits, fig and brown sugar. Beer had a nice sweet butterscotch finish coating the palate mixed with a nice hoppy finish, not overly bitter, overall it remains on the sweet side.

Twice In A Row Best In Show Old Ale @FBGBF Brewers Ball-on tap–pours a ran ring for a head and mahogany color. Aroma is sweet dark malt-licorice. Taste is sweet dark malt-licorice/anise, some hops bite. Syrupy mouth feel.

On tap at the brewpub pouring up deep dark chocolate brown with tan head and fading quickly ring of foam. The mild aroma brings up mostly prunes and dates as well as a faint sense of dark roasted malts. Why do TBBC brewed beers always have such a light aroma? Maybe it is the appearance of this brew but the very first flavor note I get is chocolate. That note is quickly followed by prunes, dates and brown sugar sweetness. To midway dark roasted malts and chocolate brownie surge forward and head into the finish supported by the additional note of a pleasing yet thin layer of molasses. The robust prunes, dates and figs really dominate the flavor while the sweet and roasty malts seem to be playing a flavorful supporting role. This has come together very nicely. Well done. I wish the aroma was a little, ok, a lot fuller.

Special release around mid-December ’09, winner of the FL homebrewer competition. Pours dark brown, off-white head with light golden lacing. aroma, malty and hoppy, some dark fruits, dark malts, mild yeasty nose. flavor, prominent dark fruits; prune, currant, dark sugar and roasted malts. As the beer warms up it gained a nice warming mouthfeel with some caramel notes. Yeast is noticeable as well as some spiced hops.

This was a beer engine pull right out of the whiskey barrel set up at the bar and right into my pint glass looking to be deep gold in body with dry hop haze and lasting tight light tan head and some sheet lacing. I don’t know how they managed to serve this so darn cold from a barrel and beer engine. The aroma is a mix of citrus, vanilla, oak and some sweet orange hard candy. The mouth feel is creamy bringing in an interesting array of notes like sweet citrus and vanilla as well as growing grapefruit and pine hop bitterness. Toward the finish light notes of oak and whiskey join in with the rest of the notes. The after taste is pretty long carrying grapefruit, orange peel and oak. Very tasty stuff.

Straight from the barrel with a hand pull. Light amber/copper, beige head. Aroma hopped up, light whiskey notes, wood, enjoyable citrus notes, hints of vanilla and malts. Flavor, lightly hoppy, whiskey/wood, vanilla notes. Amazing hop balance and malts, citrusy hops meshed together with the good vanilla and warming whiskey palate. Second beer using the Jack Daniels barrel and another outstanding brew.

Small batch, made once and really a nice approach to the style. Served in chalice, pours cloudy orange, thin white head. Aroma was very fruity, lots of sugar and a light herbal, limit medicinal cough drop. Flavor, lots of fruits, yeast strain gave it a tropical approach with hints of mangoes/orange.Light hops and malts, with herbs; chamomile and three kinds of sugar used in this one, light/brown and dark cane sugar. Definitely something about this beer, nice finish, herbal mix adds a lot of sweetness, sugars are present as well and finish has a good warming floral/herbal abv clocking at 11.2%.