7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bright gold. Looks great. Clean, medium bitterness, woody notes, and a fairly sweet malt signature that isn’t sticky.
Tried
from Draft
at
Pure Project - North Park Taproom
on 10 May 2026
at 15:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown, rich almond, marzipan, chocolate nose. Boozy finish, definitely big on the marzipan. The alcohol cuts through the richness a bit. Could use some barrel to round it out, let the sugars express themselves a bit more.
Tried
from Draft
at
Pure Project - North Park Taproom
on 10 May 2026
at 15:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy pale, thin head. Stone fruit aroma, buggy and maybe not quite clean. It’s clean on the palate though. Lots of tart stone fruit. Light brett, plenty of acidity. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 May 2026
at 15:53
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and earth flavor with citrus. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and earth linger with citrus and light kiwi.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2026
at 21:09
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown. Rich barrel aroma, with lots of molasses, beautiful umami - the finest barrel-aged soy sauce. Some fruitiness, with the barrel layered over it. A wonderful showcase of both age and barrel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2026
at 06:21
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16.9 oz. bottle, pours jet black, almost no head. Nose is complex as hell, with complex, slightly smoky, intense bourbon barrels, smoked meat, deep malts (somewhat roasted), and subtle molasses. Flavour is extremely rich, with deep bourbon barrels, some smoked meat, vanillin, and dark sugars. Not too sweet—the sugars are well-attenuated. Excellent barrel blend.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Pure Project - North Park Taproom
on 23 Apr 2026
at 06:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (batch 4; bottled 11/2025). Near black with almost no beige head. Soft woody bourbon, chocolate malt, light fudge, comes together nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2026
at 06:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500mL bottle. Pours black with almost no head. Tons of rich bourbon barrels on the nose, good charring, dark sugars. Flavour has tons of really dark sugars, burnt sugars, deep bourbon barrel character, some hints of dark fruits from the bourbon barrels. Rich and malt forward with an excellent barrel character. Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2026
at 02:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
On tap at the Pizza Store by OC Local on 20th April 2026. Asked for a pint, but the beer died half way through the pour and splattered the young lady at the tap. I got the half for free and she got a decent tip! So the last of the barrel. It poured an opaque golden orange, the head obviously pretty big because of the gas trying to pump out the remains of the liquid within the barrel. Anyway I thought this a fine hazy IPA with plenty going on in the taste, citrus flavours mostly, but some resinous piney notes too.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Pizza Store By OC Local
on 20 Apr 2026
at 15:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draft: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma is skunky, grain, citrus. Taste is nice grainy malts. Refreshing beer.
Tried
from Draft
at
Pure Project - Balboa Park Tap Room
on 19 Apr 2026
at 21:17