Barley Island Beastie Barrel Porter

Brewed by Barley Island Brewing
Style: Porter
Noblesville, Indiana USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Dark brown porter with a thicj mucosy off-white head, Alcoholed filled choclate aroma with vanilla. Sharo alcohol knife cuts thorugh chocolate and roasted nuts, Grainy mouthfeel, rich body makes this an excellent beer.

bottle from stfun consumed at dak’s 1/19/11. right on porter color with a small tan head. it smells of oak, roast, ash, mellow bourbon, chocolate and caramel. after it warms a tart fruitiness shows up. the tartness carries over in to the flavor... seems to be mildly infected but it works. there are also notes of ashy charcoal, chocolate, roast and a little bit of tannins on the finish. tartness makes the medium body quite bright. carbonation is crisp. 7/3/7/3/14+

Catching up on old notes. Dark brown with head. Dry woody aroma. Chocolate coffee dry woody vanilla with clean woody finish. Pretty good.

Tasted quite nice malty, toffee, vanilla. The aroma was woody. Very woody. It was a little too much like smelling the bookshelves. I not against barrel aging just this one took to much of the barrel with it and not enough of the bourbon with it. But it tasted nice. Serving: Bottle

12oz bottle. Popped it open and it’s definitely a gusher...infected? We’ll see. Pours a very deep brown, mostly black colored body with a two finger-width, dense and foamy, light brown, gushing head that continues to grow until it slowly collapses and leaves lots of lacing. Aroma is a possibly infected sour dark fruitiness mixed in with a decent barrel-aged porter. Some caramel, roast, vanilla-bourbon, chocolate, and wood. Flavor seems less infected and is actually quite enjoyable despite the light sourness. Lots of roast, vanilla-bourbon, and wood up front with a moderate caramel and chocolate. Sour dark fruits, some coffee, and more wood before this finishes very dry with a moderate, roasty, woody bitterness along with a good amount of vanilla-bourbon, coffee, and dry cocoa. Just a slight sour dark fruitiness in a lengthy aftertaste. Medium body and fairly high, lively carbonation. Overall, I initially thought this was infected, but it may be what they were going for. The sourness has more of a negative effect on the aroma than the flavor. The flavor is actually pretty solid with lots of dry roasts, vanilla-bourbon, and cocoa, but I can’t get past the thought that this is infected. Either way, infected or not, this was okay, but I’d like to try it without the attached sourness...if that’s possible.

12oz bottle from StFun . Pours murky brown with a 2 finger mocha head. The nose is light metallic, vanilla, roasted malt and milk chocolate. The taste is sweet bourbon, light wood, roasty malt, ashy cocoa and coffee in the finish. Medium mouthfeel. Tasty brew – thanks J!

Thanks to Hellbilly for the hookup. Bottle pours brown with a khaki head. Aroma shows notes of brown sugar, caramel, bourbon and toffee covered apples. Flavor shows the same with additional notes of coffee and light roast.

Hellbilly on the hookup. Vanilla, toffee, caramel, bourbon, milk chocolate aroma. Flavor is loaded with sweet bourbon, light tart notes, roast,cofee. Not half bad.

@Rudolph Throwdown-got in trade with jtclockwork-12oz bottle-pours a foam over tan head and dark brown with red color. Aroma is boozy bourbon, dark malt, an infection. Taste is boozy bourbon, dark malt, an infection that shows less on the taste.

Bottle (gusher)... Vero Beach “GET YOUR RUDOLPH ON” Throwdown… Pours black with a huge, frothy, beige head. The nose is chocolaty and nutty with an undertone of bourbon, vanilla and toasted oak. Medium-bodied with fizzy carbonation. The flavor presents semi-sweet espresso and dark chocolate alongside lesser notes of toasted nuts, coconut and vanilla. Finishes hearty and rich with a bourbony aftertaste. Upon opening, all the gushing screamed “infection,” but this wasn’t the case. No infection that had really taken hold was detected. Bottle courtesy of jcwattsrugger!

Bottle shared at Pauls Thanksgiving weekend bash. Poured a dark brown body with a super foamy beige head. Aroma was complex with notes of sweet chocolate, honey, toast, earth, licorice, and some dark nicotine. The palate is wrong with a thin watery body hidden underneath a strong bubbly carbonation. Flavor of burnt dark chocolate, cake batter, bitter hops, light licorice, toast and celery. Meh.....not a fan.