a: very dark brown coloured body | relatively small, but smooth single centimetre tall rich brown head
a: crazy deep graham crackers | icing sugar | big vanilla notes
f: frosting | prunes | light smoked malts
t: rich malts | chewy body | lactosey finish
o: strong sugars throughout | great flavours - yes, dunk-a-roos!!! | nice and well-aged (unless it was always this good?!?)

12 ounce can | Carmine Street Beers: New York (Greenwich Village), New York | 02-May-2021 | US$3,49 | canned: 28-January-2021 | sampled: a bit longer than five years after purchase, on 13-July-2026

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 05/07/2026.
Black with a khaki head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is chai spice, coffee, dark malts, chocolate shavings, caramel.
Taste comprises dark malts, Jamaica ginger cake, coffee, spice, ginger, cardomom.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a lick of booze.
Solid stuff ... they've nailed the flavour combos here to produce a tasty well balanced beer.

355ml can. Almost black with a small tan head. Aroma of milk chocolate, vanilla, biscuits, caramel, and a whiff of bourbon. Taste is very sweet, milk chocolate, vanilla, toffee, caramel, coconut, biscuits, bourbon coming through way more than the aroma suggested, warming boozy finish. Full bodied, smooth.

pours dark brown with a light brown smooth head with bubbles
awesome bourbon and wood notes on a solid roasted malted base, mellow and velvety, not pastry stoutish sweet, more like sweet and salty licorice with coconut and chocolate, close to perfect bourbon ba imp stout aroma and the alc is kept hidden, no stingy nose here. the many months on wood has rounded it and mixed up everything well, but have not added weird notes or mouldy rustic notes or the like. really successful clean barrelling.
flavor is roasted malts, bourbon notes, a lot of wood notes, so much that the wood notes are too big compared to the bourbon notes and roasted malty nots. imagine beer filtered trough sawdust. still good but pretty damn woody. cedar woody notes, roasted malty notes and bourbon notes near perfect, nearly no burnt caramel or other off flavors. They clearly should not have aged it any longer than this - but at 35 months it is insane how balanced the end result turned out to be.
easy drinking for it's kind and dangerously easy drinking at that. very subtle wild'ish notes probably from barrelling, those subtle notes are all over the place like in a good belgian quad - but they are faint. This, hower, adds complexity and a lot to discover as you work your way through your bottle. compared to the heavy aroma and flavor, the texture feels a bit thin.