Full Sail Black Gold Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged

2006 bottle. Nearly opaque black with little tan head. Roasty malt, vineous undertones. Some booze on the tongue. Strong bourbon presence to start. Some booze and woody malts to finish. Quite hot. Needs to lay down for a while.

Bottle: Dark, dark brown with a tan head. The aromatic delights that flood through the nasal cavity arrest your attention. Notes of coconut, vanilla, bourbon, and alcohol. The body is smooth like velvet (Black velvet if you please). Flavors of sweet coconuts, a little mint, oak, smooth liquor, and a little dark chocolate with fruit. It leaves a smooth coating in your mouth. Thanks Indiana Red for sharing this treasure!

Thanks to Footbalm for sending this my way...Pours jet black with a decent brown head. The aroma is like sticking your head in a bourbon barrel. Thick and dry palate underneath the flavor of bourbon and more bourbon. Throw in a dose of charcoal and some roasted coffee and you’ve got the idea. Barrel aging is way overdone.

Dark fruits and bourbon stand out in the aroma.Pours black with a tan head.Flavor is dominated by the bourbon.Full body with a little to much bourbon.

Pitch black colour with a nice head. Very nice aroma of roastedness, dried fruit and alcohol. Lovely full body flavour of roastedness, chocolate, vanilla all in a very harminie-way.

Bottle shared with a bunch of folks at DougShoemaker’s Decemberfest 2006 - courtesy of blankboy. Deep brown-black with a small mocha head. Aroma - wow, that’s bourbony alright! Some nice vanilla and chocolate notes in there as well. Flavour holds lots of bourbon and wood, with follow-up notes of vanilla and licorice. It certainly isn’t subtle, but it’s very good - assuming you like bourbon, I guess.

Many thanks to Beerdrenched for sharing this fine impy stout. Pours black with a moderate sized orange head. The aroma has roasted malt and some vanilla and bourbon. Medium / full body with only a slight bit of carbonation. The taste starts out with oak and roasted malt along with vanilla and abv. The finish has some creaminess, more vanilla, obvious alcohol presence and a bit of sharpness from the carbonation, not much though. Very nice imperial stout.

bottle-pours black with a small fizzy beige head. really doenst look very unusual or interesting. nose is full of dark chocolate, vanilla, roast, sweet chocolate, with lite bourbon notes. flavors of dark chocolate, light roast, woodsy notes, and some fudge-like flavor (like a java chocolate fudge). nice finish of lite roast and bourbon sweetness. body is somewhat thin, which like the regular black gold, could have made this beer a top-notch bourbon barrel stout. very good, but just a step below stardom.