Bluegrass Bourbon Barrel Stout

Brewed by Bluegrass Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Draft @ Capital Ale House, Richmond, VA. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma with hints of bourbon barrel. Roasted malty bourbon chocolate and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and bourbon barrel finish.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of Cavie) Pours a dark brown (near black) body with a medium tan head. Aroma of raisins, coconut, chocolate, bourbon, and caramel. Flavor of bourbon, roasted malt, vanilla, toffee, chocolate, light wood, and raisins.

Tampa Weekly Gathering @BT WesleyChapel-12oz bottle-pours a thin brown head and dark brown color. Aroma is bourbon/wood, dark malt-molasses. Taste is bourbon/wood, dark malt-molasses/vanilla. Easy.

Bottle from Vintage Cellar. Pours pretty dark brown/black with a bubbly/foamy tan head. Aromas of oak char, chocolate and bourbon/vanilla. Near med body. The flavor is very oak and smoke - and burnt wood. There’s some vanilla and chocolate. A less than sturdy stout aged in oak. Still pretty good.

Draft. Poured black color with an average frothy brown head that was that mostly diminished with fair lacing. Solid roasted coffee, wood and chocolate malt aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium roasted chocolate flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good and my expectations where met.

Bottle… Pours black with dashes of mahogany and a small, khaki head. Lots of toasted oak and vanilla in the aroma, but the bourbon component isn’t overbearing in either the nose or the flavor. Medium to full-bodied and creamy with soft carbonation. Clean, malty, chocolate and bourbon flavor with a nutty, chocolaty, vanilla finish. Smooth!

12 ounce bottle. Dark but clear brownish maroon color, small tan head that settles to an edge, solid lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate, bitter cocoa, vanilla, earth. Taste is slightly sweet, dilute roasted coffee. Slight alcohol in the finish. Medium body. Nice enough.

Bottled as part of the Clay Street Series: Pours a mostly opaque dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing thin ring of light beige head. Has a lightly sweet vanilla and bourbon oaky nose with a hint of tart cherries. Starts fairly thin for the style with a watery acidic fruitiness and a mild milk chocolate flavor. Finishes slightly warming and tart. This seems to be infected and lacking body.

A: The pour is a somewhat thin dark brown color with a minimal off-white head. S: I could smell the butter in this as soon as I opened the bottle. Diacetyl pretty much dominates the nose and prevents any bourbon or stout aromas from coming through. T: For a bourbon barrel aged stout, this beer is incredibly favorless. Watery and bland with maybe a bit of roast and chocolate. M: The body is just as disappointing as the rest of the beer: thin and lowly carbonated. D: Another piece of evidence that -bals do not always make a beer better/good.

Bottle from Wine Sellar Williamsburg, VA. Poured thick jet b;lack with minimal tan head. Nose was mild bourbon and oak, with heavier choc and black patent malts, cacao, and mild roasty coffee. Tasted rich, with chocoff, some spirity blackstrap molasses, and a subtle but effective bourbon barrel flavor.