Full Sail Black Gold Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Hood River, Oregon USA

Pours full eclipse black with a thick but short lived head. The nose is all bourbon barrel with some dark fruits fighting their way through. Oak, bourbon flavour, alcoholic finish. Somewhere underneath all that bourbon flavour is an impy stout crying to get out. Diappointed.

Black colour with a small brown head. Roasted malty aroma and taste with notes of dark fruit and chocolate. Dry and sweet finish.

Bottle. Black body with a medium mocha head. Cheesy aroma, yeast, bread, and alcohol. A mix of bourbon oak flavours and dry fruity oak. Very slow sipper with chalky chocolate roasty flavour and caramel. Finishes dry, bitter, and quite thick.

This beer is incredible, I had a few bottles of this in my "cellar", but I just couldn’t stop bringing these out when beer-loving guests came over, just to impressive. Pours thick black with a brown head. Very rich throughout with a great depth of flavors. Chocolate, coffee, caramel, vanilla, oakiness, and that kick of bourbon. As you pour a glass of this and sip it as it warms you get to see the many faces of flavor in this one. I would love to get a shot at this brew on tap, but these bottles will probably age really well, if you can keep them around since I can’t seem to.

22 oz bottle from indianaRed(thanks!). Pours a near midnight black with no head. Nose is of bourbon, raisons, alcohol, wood. Taste is the same. I’m sorry, but i do not seem to like these woody, oaky, abv!, barrel taste beers...

again, as with the heavyweight wee whale, a little later than puzzl and lukin’s but i’m procrastinating schoolwork instead of procrastinating entering ratings. anyway, woody, vanilla, bourbon, some roasty malt notes both in the nose and flavor, but i do agree that the bourbon flavor was overwhelming. would prefer the alcohol to be a little better hidden.

Bottle Thanks to Acertain. 53F. Snifter. Aroma is dominated by malts, and oak, hops were very hidden, but the sweet smell of molasses and vanilla were very nice. Pours very dark black, with a very small brown head. Great warming flavor, drank outside on the deck watching the rain fall. The flavor was of strong molasses and pure vanilla bean, rich oak, the hops were slightly present in the background, The mouthfeel was not cloying but big enough to stand up for the grain bill. Very nice, went perfectly with the cool wet weather, and then I light a cigar and it definately held its ground.

Bottled. Black coloured with a medium sized head. Roasted malt with notes of coffee and dark fruits. Really nice. Great mouthfeel.