Sampled at FoBAB 2008. Pours black with some tan head. Aroma of chocolate, dark fruit and bourbon. Flavor cocoa, creamy vanilla, marshmallow and bourbon. Very good stuff.

(10.24.08) On draught at Rock Bottom Chicago. Black pour with thin tan head which doesn’t stick around for long. Sweet/roasted malt aroma, with brown sugar, vanilla, and bourbon coming out to play. Medium to full body. Well balanced sweetness and bitterness with plenty of alcohol in the finish. Delicious barrel-aged stout - the best thing Rock Bottom has to offer, but not the best brew in the category.

(Draught) Pours an opaque black body with a small tan head. Aroma of vanilla, bourbon, roasted malt, brown sugar, and caramel. Flavor of bourbon, roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, and caramel malt with bitter roastiness in the finish.

Deep black great thick body. Nicely balanced bourbon/stout aroma, though the bourbon definitely takes over. The flavor is perfect on this. It’s very malty and sweet enough to balance the bourbon flavor, also does a nice job of hiding the 12% alc. This actually went down way too easily, and i could have drank these all night long. Overall one of the best Bourbon Stouts I have tried.

Draught at the pub, 08/17/08. In a snifter, appears opaque big creamy cocoa head. Strong sweet bourbony chocolate aroma. Rich creamy palate some roast bitter and biting alcohol in the finish. A good strong but not over bearing imperial stout. Flavor is some dry barrel sweet chocolatey bitterness.