UPDATED: JAN 22, 2022 12 ounce bottle. Pours almost black with an average tan head. Aroma of coffee, malt, and bourbon. Taste is coffee, roasted malt, and bourbon. Thin body. Average.

UPDATED: OCT 18, 2020 4 pack from Central Market in Austin, TX. Aroma is dark coffee, coffee liquor, bourbon, buttery caramels, very dark (less vanilla bourbon). Taste is dark roast coffee, warming booze, bourbon, bitter coffee grounds, crisp and dry-ish. Tons of coffee and bourbon as promised. Mouthfeel is crisp (less oily than you might expect) with bitter, dry coffee and warming booze. Very boozy overall but extremely drinkable, and at 14% I’m impressed with how balanced the sweetness is. Excellent!

UPDATED: SEP 16, 2020 A trip to Vegas was fairly uneventful a few weeks ago but I did locate a number of decent beers, Java Cask being high on the list. What’s not to appreciate, imperial stout, bourbon barrel aging and coffee. The label informs of a 10/25/17 born-on date. My Cowtown tulip glass gets the honor this evening for the 12 oz offering. I pour and see a heavy, black entry with a momentary covering of mahogany foam. The scent, in a word, delightful. Molasses, blackberry and a bit of coal. What to do now? Oh yeah, a drink. Wow, mighty fine, bakers chocolate, raspberries, vanilla, oak, bourbon, pie crust and toffee. A bit of a burn, I attribute that’s to the 14.3% abv. First rate, wish I had purchased two bottles. But how do you know?

UPDATED: FEB 9, 2020 Pours a deep brown, almost black, with a hint of purple-red if held to a light. Small amount of dense light brown foam. Aroma is malts, bourbon, and coffee. Taste is bourbon, chocolate, coffee, vanilla and molasses with a sweet finish. Really great stuff.

UPDATED: FEB 6, 2020 On tap at Das Beer Garden. Black and a little transparent at the edges. Smells of bourbon, oak, earthy coffee. Tastes of bourbon, sweet chocolate, coffee, oak. Vanilla and sugar lingers. Big, boozy, heavy, and sweet. But it's very flavorful. I don't often enjoy beers like this, but this is excellent.

UPDATED: APR 29, 2019 Benzai’s Biertuin, thanks Benzai for sharing, Heavy coffee, heavy bourbon, quite sharp, dark roasted, sugary, dry, moccha, vanilla, charcoal, oak, quite nice, still sharp notes

24Mar2019 Sweet, dark roast coffee, sweet oak, bourbon, dark chocolate, cacao. Hazy, very dark brown, small, creamy, beige head. Medium sweet. More sweet, dark chocolate, cacao, dark roast coffee, oak, bourbon, soft carbonation, full bodied.Absolutely outstanding.

UPDATED: MAR 15, 2019 Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a black color with a small foamy brown head that left decent lacing. The aroma was strong coffee and whiskey. The flavor is strong coffee, whiskey, vanilla, a hint of smoke and roasty malts. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.

UPDATED: MAR 9, 2019 Pours tar black with a tan head and decent lacing. Aroma of coffee, vanilla, and booze. Coffee flavor muted a bit by roasted malt, vanilla, chocolate, and booze, Very nice.

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2019 Draft at Moriartys. Black pour with clear dark brown edges. Slim soft camel ring. Pleasant coffee/toffee aroma. Tastes deep but not sticky. Coffee. Vanilla. Bourbon. Liquorice. Chocolate. Charcoal. Carob. Vinyl. A roller coaster of intense dark sweet flavors. Really well done.