Jackie-Os Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Apparition

Brewed by Jackie-Os Pub and Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Athens, Ohio USA

Serve in Snifter

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Big thanks to Exiled for sharing this bottle. The beer looks exactly like an imperial stout should, completely black with a dark tan head. The aroma is wonderful. I get a lot of roasted malt and chocolate, as well as a lot of notes from the barrel aging: bourbon, maple and vanilla. The flavor is more of the same. You can tell the base beer is excellent and the chocolate and coffee notes come through nicely. I also get the same barrel aging notes as in the aroma: whiskey, maple and vanilla. The bourbon is present but is not overpowering. All of the flavors work very well together and make this an outstanding beer. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

Huge thanks to Eric for this beer. Served in a Bruery tulip. Pours a color that is nearly black and has a pretty good light mocha head that sticks around for a bit before falling to a thin collar. The nose brings some really nice bourbon along with oak and a fairly-strong vanilla presence. Light chocolate lingers in the background along with some hints of roast. In the end, however, this is all about the bourbon. The flavor is quite nice. The bourbon permeates everything and is incredibly smooth. I really like what this has done to the base beer. Good, thick body that is supremely smooth without any hint of the 10.5 ABV. Overall, a great beer that really has me looking forward to the next Jackie O’s stout release. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 03-21-2011

Bottle someone brought to Clusterfork #3 today. Pours black with a light brown head. Nose is sweet smoky, Taste is all in all pretty nice with a great bourbon finish.

Draft @ Jackie O’s (many samples from bottle since). Pours black with a small lasting beige head. The aroma has all the parts a big stout should have: roasted malt,some smoke, dark chocolate with the bourbon integrating nicely. Touches of vanilla. The flavor is also not dominated by the bourbon. Dark chocolate, roast, some smoke, hints of coffee, vanilla and bourbon. Medium plus bodied and a real treat to drink.

bottle, thanks to exiled, blakc pour with thin tan foam , aromas of roasty sweet chocolates, oaky vanilla notes, flavor is very nice mix of coffee, chocolate, whiskey oak, a little on the hot side

Sampled at Nashville Beer Summit 1.22.11 - Yet another very dark pour of a Jackie-O’s beer. Looks tasty. Vanilla, booze, hazelnut, oak, and plenty of woodiness. Amazing again. Holy crap. These guys are so good. Great creamy mouth feel. A wish I could keep drinking these.

Huge thanks to Kan for bringing Brad, brewmaster at Jackie O’s to our Sunday afternoon tasting. This was an awesome sneak peek that is making almost drive for the release...Black with some really nice light tan head...The aroma here is awesome. Its super sweet with tons of honey, maple syrup, chocolate and vanilla. A perfect combination that you would think would be too sweet but somehow isn’t...The taste is almost as good, brings back all the sweetness of the aroma but brings out some of the wood here, which we got none of on the front. Lots of honey, vanilla, raspberries in the middle and wood. I really like it, would be perfect if a little more balanced with either some bitterness or light hop finish...Easy drinker can’t believe what the abv is. This is an awesome RIS. Its sweeter so as long as your like sweet stours you’ll love this.

Thank you for the bottle Joe! Impressive cocoa/expresso tinged head on light-impenetrable black beer. Aroma is sweet roasted malt, honey, molasses, marshmallow, and mellow, well-integrated bourbon. Smells amazing! Taste is bourbon up front followed by cocoa, bitter chocolate, dark fruit/raisin, light bitter hops, light roasted malt, and trailing alcohol from the bourbon. Smooth and light feel in the mouth. The heat from the bourbon and sweetness from the honey is slightly overplayed and detracts from the cocoa/roasted character but it’s still a very well done beer. Wow!

Bottle at the hotel tasting after Night of the Barrels at EBF. Pours a deep black with a thin tan to beige head. Big bourbon, roast, chocolate, coffee on the nose. Chocolate, with lots of bourbon. Roast, cocoa and some lingering chocolate.

This poured a very dark brown color with a lighter tan head. Aroma was of vanilla, bourbon/oak, and nice deep dark roasted malts. Flavor was a bit sweeter than expected from the aroma, lots of sweeter roasted malts, light chocolate, the bourbon is definately there and adds to the experience with out being dominating. Good stuff.