COAST Blackbeerd Imperial Stout Barrel Aged (Jack Daniels Barrel)

Brewed by COAST Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
North Charleston, South Carolina USA

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: MAY 27, 2011 Bottle. 200th imperial stout rating. Pours oily black. Tan head. Nose is roasted chocolate, mocha java, dark chocolate, vanilla and whiskey barrel. Taste is the same. Body is on the lighter side for an imperial, but the spot on taste and nose is really the driving force of this masterful brew.

Pours pitch-black and super-thick, like a motor-oil milkshake. The smell shows unmistakable bourbon and oak, yet also keeps the mocha soul of the original intact. Bittersweet and boozy yet smooth and mellow, rolling layers of flavor keep sweeping across your tongue. The finish drips with Sour Mash Whisky, but only the smoothest, top-shelf bottle you can find. Remarkable brew. (3/2/09)

Had at the great Chicago tasting along with the regular Blackbeerd and the Buffalo Trace. I had both the Blackbeerd and Buffalo Trace before so this finished off the trio. I was not overly impressed with the first two, this one was slightly better but not saying a ton as I think in general these stours are just all slightly above average...The taste was much sweeter and smooth, lots of vanilla and bourbon and the taste and feel is the definition of what a buttery stout tastes like. If you can find this its worth drinking, but don’t over pay.

Bottle shared by BrewEngineer at the 14th Richmond Gathering. Pours opaque with a medium, fizzy tan head, medium-short retention with light lacing. Aroma and flavor are heavy malt (chocolate, coffee, nutty, roasted), average hops (earthy, woody), and medium fruity esters with notes of fig, licorice, prune, vanilla, and oak. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation with a sweet finish.

Date: 3/19/2011 Source:BrewEngineer Chocolate wood vanilla with some whiskey notes in the aroma. Black with small off-white head. Flavor follows aroma. Nice woodiness with lots of vanilla and almost coconut coming out in the finish. Medium to full body with very light astringency. Whiskey is very smooth and subdued. Excellent.

Sampled both at Brewvival 2011 and at the Richmond 14th Gathering. Very dark brown pour with ring of tan head. Defintiely good with a very long lasting bourbon warming in the back of the throat. Sweet vanilla and dark cherry and vanilla and chocolate and light roast. Very mellow and smooth, but still with alcohol. Good stuff.

Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty malty licorice and chocolate aroma. Roasted malty woody barrel chocolate and licorice flavor with hints of Jack Daniels. Has a roasted malty woody licorice and chocolate finish.

courtesy of brewedawakening, thank you so much! wow, is this a treat! i love the way jd barrels play on a beer, just divine. this stuff pours very think black, very oily and dense, with a slow rising dark brown head that has good retention and excellent lacing and spotting. smells like chocolate milk, totally awesome, almost like a st stout. the taste is to match, just awesome. sweet, creamy, thick, lightly barreled, but just enough to make itself known, especially comes through nicely in the finish and after taste. the smokey peaty original beer is still there, but the bitterness is balanced so beautifully by the sweet marshmallows, chocolate milk and jd. the body is top notch, thick and full, nothing unpleasant about it. excellent beer, i really enjoyed this one.

aaar! .. as far as black liquid goes, this is nice! .. . flavours of burning tar, ash, tobacco, and people being dipped in tar .. . light bourbon also, very well done as far as the bourbon goes .. . would like to have again, a nice brew! .. . Oooh shit... Look at the door, dude. You see that door right there? The one marked pirate? You think a pirate lives in there?

Bottle at Papsø’s -- Thanks. Black - brown head. Licorice, smokey, chocolate, light carcoal, oiley, high malty, light alcoholic, light coffee, boozy, whiskey, light hoppy. Nice.