Avery Black Tot (Bourbon Barrel)

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

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On tap at Avery Barrel Room poured a clear dark brown nearly black with a small lasting brown head. Aromas of bourbon, oak, vanilla, carmel, dark chocolate and light coffee. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bourbon, oak, vanilla, carmel, dark chocolate and light coffee with a smooth lingering bourbon finish.

On tap at Oaquinox 2010. Black with a fine bubble tan head. Buttery barrel aged aroma. Sweet and delicious. Excellent.

Draft, Brouwer’s. Black pour, tan bubbles. Lots of bourbon on the aroma, dark coffee roasty notes. This is a very smooth bourbon loaded imperial stout, some vanilla, light char, roasty coffee and chocolate. Not hot at all for a bourbon barrel stout. Loved this one.

Draught. Black with nonexistent head. Aroma of bourbon, very sweet chocolate, leather, light coffee and some notes of fruit (pear). Taste is sweet chocolate, boozy bourbon, very rich almost creamy. Palate is oily and has medium carbonation. Exceptional, and in my mind better than plain black tot.

Crushed at the Black Tot release. One hell of a beer. Plenty of bourbon to go around that lasts well past the finish. Definitely covers most of the flavor but it’s still excellent and as smooth as it gets. Like the original Tot, could use some aging, but unfortunately we’ll never know.

draft at brouwers back in black. pours jet black with a loose ring of dark tan head and intermittent lace. mild bourbony nose. some sweet roasty malt balanced in. creamy medium thick body, some carb showing. roasty, ashy, charry mid palate with bourbony peach and vanilla leavening it in. sweet, powerful, pleasant impy. clingy sweet finish.

UPDATED: AUG 26, 2010 On draught at the tap room/brewery. The beer pours black with a medium thick rocky beige head that diminishes slowly. Top ring of lacing with strings underneath. Boozy, chocolatey aroma. Rich, smooth body with flavors of bourbon, dark chocolate, malt and roasted coffee. The finish is roasty and oaky with a bourbon-infused chocolate aftertaste. Good beer overall.

(Draught) Pours an opaque black body with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, bourbon, oak, and chocolate. Flavor of bourbon, caramel, oatmeal, vanilla, chocolate, and roasted malt.

Back N Black – Brouwer’s Café – Seattle Beer Week 2010
Aroma – Big Bourbon aroma with a nice rich dark malt backing.
Appearance – Black in color, Clear with a thin head.
Flavor – This was thick with Bourbon and barrel aging flavors. Lots of dark rich malts to add with coffee and chocolate.
Palate – Dry finish with a Nice Barrel aging Mouthfeel.
Overall – Damn good beer. Great for the BBN crowd.

Lots of bourbon barrel on the nose, vanilla and dark chocolate notes, nice essence of bourbon. Nice nose. Pours black with a brown creamy head. Bourbon, wood, vanilla, coffee, roast, dark chocokate, alcohol, barrel notes. Creamy smooth body. Not too hot, enjoyable.