4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Chocolate molasses and coffee boozy nose thin mouthfeel easy drinking delicious brown thin head
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: OCT 28, 2011 (Bottle marked 11/09 thanks to blutt59) Pours jet black with tan bubbles. Nose of vanilla, coffee, and sweet chocolate. Taste of bakers chocolate, caramel, cream, cocoa, with a thick and sweet finish with a moderate amount of bitterness. Slightly syrupy too. Rating: 8-4-7-3-15
(12oz bottle from the brewer - Re-Rate! deep ruby/brown with a ring of tan bubbles. Nose of rich maple, waffles, bourbon, rich chocolate. Taste of alcohol, maple, waffles, bourbon, rich chocolate, very decadent! Vanilla here too, so complex and flavorful. Thick body, coffee, vanilla, well carbonated, and an absolutely spot-on palate finish. Age has really done wonders for this beer. Now the 2009 vintage I would rate as: 8-4-8-5-17
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tap at HDG for the strong ale fest. Probably the best beer of the day. Pours a pitch black body with a thin lasting tan head and nice lace. Aroma is tons of coffee, tobacco, and bourbon noticed from 1 ft away- nice! Sweet syrupy caramel malts, tons of chocolate, and roast, and big with the bourbon, but no real alcohol yet. More tobacco, chocolate, roasted dry acrid malts- blends really well with the moderate bourbon- and some syrupy and almsot oily licorice, tar and tobacco. Nice smooth almost oily mouthfeel with a nice warming light burn in the end. Nice BA impy stout!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tap at HDG Daze of the Devil. Pitch black beer with a thick brown head. Aroma has loads of raisin, oaky and quite rummy aroma over rich dark chocolate, raisins and plums. Flavour is great with loads of rich roasted malt, sweet licorice, and a lingering bourbony barrel character. Rich sweet palate, lingering figgy sweetness with a soft roastiness rounding it off.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12oz 2009 vintage. Really glad I’m getting a shot at this since it is put together really well. Not so much bourbon that you feel like you are drowning in it, maybe that has to do with the age. Nice vanilla added to the overall experience though which is a good addition. More on the toffee gooey chocolate side of things with the stout part of this. Soy sauce and raisin aroma. Roasty malt and a little bit of heat on the finish. All of it is very smooth though and I need to force myself to take some time with it unless I down it and get drunk.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tasting at miketd’s
Thanks to flandersned for bringing this down from Michigan. I had never heard of Big Rock before this but based on this sample it seems like a promising brewery/brewpub operation. If I ever find myself in that neck of the woods I may have to make a stop.
Aroma / Appearance - The dirty off white head matched the lacing sticking to the sides of the small snifter. Underneath a black oily body swirled slowly. Bourbon, vanilla, fresh dough, smoke, coffee, anise, and cherry formed a rich composition that pleases the nose. Nothing was lacking here.
Flavor / Palate - Dry and oaky the bourbon and vanilla take center stage. Next comes the coffee, chocolate, and other imperial flavors. One weakeness is that this one feels a little unbalanced - it is almost the peer of Bourbon County Stout in that regard. Still I would not mind drinking more of this if the chance arose.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
on tap at HDG DOTD II. Opaque black in color with a small brown head. Aroma: bourbon, chocolate, roast, vanilla in. Taste is a nice mix of bourbon, chocolate, roast, wood, vanilla, molasses and some light alcohol. Full bodied, and complex. Bourbon was very much in the forefront but didn’t completely overpower the taste. I thought this was my favorite of all the beers on tap that day.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUN 19, 2008 Draft DOTD. Pours a black beer with a white head. Aroma and flavor is filled with bourbon, plum, raisins, wood and coffee liquor. Awesome BA stout!
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from 2005. Poured super thick and black with a small dark tan head. Smelled huge, could smell it without even lifting it to my nose. Big bourbon as well as vanilla notes. Taste was big and rich as well, more bourbon, dense chocolate, vanilla and maybe some very dark fruit. Great lasting finish. I thought this stuff was really good. One of the best barrel aged stouts I have had in awhile. Big Rock keeps on impressing me.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at HDB Daze of the Devil II. Pours a viscous solid black with a small tight chocolate brown head. Aroma is excellent with tons of bourbon booziness, vanilla, chocolate and a slight touch of wood. Medium bodied with bubbly cahmpagne like carbonation and lots of alcohol warming. Lots of bourbon coming through on the flavor with some vanilla and a slight bit of chocolate. As much as I enjoyed this the aroma was far superior to the flavor, just like how Chuck D was far superior to Flavor Flav.
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