UPDATED: MAY 31, 2024 750ml bottle @ Ryan's. Pours an inky black with red highlights around the edges and no head. Nose is bourbon barrel, molasses, and toasted malts. Flavour is rich, and wow it really is both a stout and a barleywine, caramel, toasted malt, molasses, that barrel character is amazing. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, and a moderate sweetness with a solid warming character throughout.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2024 750mL bottle, pours a deep black with a tiny beige head. Aroma is wonderfully decadent, with tons of decadent bourbon barrels, notes of treacle, dark sugars, and a touch of dark dried fruits. Flavour is remarkably decadent and complex, with a fantastic bourbon barrel expression, dark sugars, some dark dried fruits, a little treacle, and a nice warming effect without being rough at all. The barrel expression is just wonderful, supported by a damn solid base beer. Wonderful.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2024 750ml (thx, Brent!) @ Ryan's. Appearance: very dark brown with a beige red-ish head. Aroma: American oak, sweetness, malty, some chocolate. Taste: explosion of oak, nice level of sweetness, perfect integration of the imperial stout and the barleywine. Overall: very nice.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2024 Pours nice and inky. No head. There is a little reddish accent to the colour, though it is pretty dark brown. The aroma has rich bourbon, light chocolate, toffee, some raisin. Maybe a touch nutty. The body is bourbon, it's pretty big but feels like it could be bigger, with rich toffee notes, again a bitter dark chocolate accent. Caramel as well. Very nice complexity to this.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2024 Poured from 750mL bottle. Dark brown with no head. Old woody bourbon, smooth and balanced, dried fruits, solid.

UPDATED: JAN 31, 2024 On tap at Side Project Cellar. Black with small tan head. Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, bourbon, some dried fruit, figs, prunes. Low carbonation. Full bodied. Dense and thick.

UPDATED: SEP 29, 2023 750mL bottle at SP line share, 9/29/23. Dark, viscous. No head. Rich chocolate, spicy bourbon, gooey caramel vanilla and no alcohol, of course. Soft, thick, very, syrupy and rich with heavy vanilla accents and almost a bittersweet character. No alcohol, no excess sugar. Bit of char and gooey fudge. Warming, great acidity. Has held up phenomenally well.

UPDATED: FEB 16, 2023 On tap @ Lupulo. Pours black with a finger of tan foam. Huge maple, bourbon, caramel, and cocoa. Has a nice spicy whiskey note as well as kind of a graham cracker note. Some toasted marshmallow, dates, and toffee. Fairly sweet, but just enough barrel and whiskey to it. Nice stuff.

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2023 Appearance: Pours opaque dark brown to black with tiny brown head, no lacing. 外观：深棕黑色，不透明。少许棕色泡沫，无挂杯。 4/5 Aroma: Prune, raisin, toasted malt, soy sauce, chocolate, clove, cinnamon, caramel and charred wood, with hints of walnut. 气味：西梅干、葡萄干、烘烤麦芽、酱油、巧克力、丁香、肉桂、焦糖和炙木，伴有些许胡桃。 Dried fruits, dark fruits, cola and spices with soy sauce and bourbon oak. Luscious sweetness proper bitterness, umami and subtle acidity. Lingering bitter sweet spicy finish with dried fruits, cocoa and bourbon oak. 味道：呈现果干、深色水果、可乐和香料，伴随着酱油和波本桶味。入口甜蜜，伴随着恰到好处的苦度 Full bodied, soft carbonated. Oily texture and smooth. 口感：酒体饱满，杀口感柔和。呈现油润感，顺滑。 5/5 Overall I would say it's 60% stout with 40% barleywine, on the basis of the taste. Quite rich, complex and layered for a non-adjunct beer, while complete fusion of all flavor has occued at the moment. What's more, drinkers need not worry about any unpleasant characters. I concede it may even more enjoyable than BBT 2018, unless you don't want any sweetness. Perfect American Dark Strong Ale. 根据其味道，我觉得这款酒是60%的世涛混上40%的大麦。对非增味啤酒来说，可谓相当浓郁、复 2018更令人享受，除非你恐甜。完美的美式深色烈性艾尔。 19/20 Tasted: 2023-1-18

UPDATED: DEC 12, 2022 Bottle at GHS pours darkest brown with minimal head. Aroma is bourbon, raisin, prune, chocolate, soy, vanilla. Rich medium boozy medium sweet flavor, toffee dark fruit soy and chocolate. Full body, lower carb. Very tasty.