Bluegrass Jeffersons Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

UPDATED: FEB 12, 2012 12 oz bottle pour black with a tan head. Aroma is of coffe and whisky with a hint of cocoa. The taste has the classic stout coffee and chocolate with an added hint of bourbon

bottle with MrsSwoop, darker black pour, chocolaty aroma, light bourbon, tobacco cigarette thing going on, Immediate spritzy mouthfeel chocolate, cigarette, medium bourbon notes than increase as beer warms. Higher carbonation seems off. Decent aroma & flavor, mouthfeel & carbonation seems off

bottle, chocolate brown, dark, frothy foamy big head. chocolatety aroma, bourbon is light, Flavor is like a chocolate cigarette, feels too much like smoking a cigarette. spritzy mouthfeel. Not my thing

(bottle 8/19/10). Black color. Medium tan head. Moderat bourbon/alcohol aroma, with light sweetness. Flavor of the same. Avg duration. Light dry finish. Slick texture. Soft to moderate carbonation. Spare lacing.

Tap. Smells like roasted coffee beans and bourbon. Dark. Smoked, boozy, decent hop finish. Maybe a little cocoa.

Tasted on 7/23/11 from a 12oz bottle sent to me as an extra in a trade. Pours an opaque, nearly black, brown with a massive (I mean stupid big) light brown head that really doesn’t recede at all. As a matter of fact, after waiting ten minutes, I decided to scoop out a bunch of the head with a spoon just so I could finally drink it. The nose is dominated by tons of coffee, dark and milk chocolate, molasses, burnt toast, and the underlying vanilla and coconut oak aromas. The flavor is very roasted with some coffee, toast, and vanilla, along with a hot alcohol burn. The body is impossible to detect, due to the ridiculously high amount of carbonation, along with a long toasted and vanilla finish.

An excellent stout. Perfectly balanced the best stout on draft that I have tasted. Try it if you can.

Stygian darkness fills the glass and is covered with a coffee-chocolate cream layer. This brew does not smack you in the face with bourbon, it is quite nuanced and interwoven with the roast and quite subdued in the aroma. The bourbon is decidedly more detectable in the flavor and melds well with the coffee roast flavor. Dy coffee bean burnt finish. More sophisticated that the typical bourbon-aged brew.