Xbeeriment Black Force One Bourbon Barrel Edition

Xbeeriment
Brewed at Amager Bryghus
Style: Imperial Stout
København NV, Denmark

Serve in Snifter

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Chopp. Pitch black, small brown head, ok lacing. Sweet well roasted pleasant maltiness in the aroma along with chocolate, dark fruit and alcohol / bourbon. Good mouthfeel. Sweet well roasted maltiness with chocolate and dark fruits in the flavour, alco notes, bit wood.
Earlier Rating: 9/14/2011 Total Score: 3.8
Flöska. Pitch black, brown small head, good lacing. lovely roasty malty aroma with alcohol, dark fruits, choolate, wood, boubon kick in tnhe nose. Good filling mouthfeel. Roasted maltiness indeed in the flavour with bourbon , wood, chocolate, some vanilla, bitter alco roasty alco finish,

Draft. A pitch black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of bourbon, wood, spices, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, bourbon, spices, alcohol, and wood, leading to a dry roasted and bourbon finish.

On tap at Fermentoren. Pours black with a medium sized tan head. Has a sweet taste of dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee and fruits. Mouthfeel is vinous and full with a long bitter aftertaste of malt, chocolate and vanilla. The bourbon taste really stands out, but somehow it works very well anyway. Super good beer. Edit: having mistakenly placed my original review under the wrong beer and having to move it, and having tasted the non-barrel aged version in the meantime, I’ve knocked a couple of points off this beer. The barrel aging gives it a taste I can only describe as ’tinny’, and I feel that the "normal" version is slightly more balanced than this. But like I said: it IS a good beer.

Draught at Fermentoren. Pitch black - white head. Lots of bourbon. Lots of sharp booze. Burned malts. Molasses. Dried fruity. Tarmac. Hard burned malts. Sweet notes. Lovely high malty. Rather dry and hard burned malty. Nice - but a bit too boozy.
Earlier Rating: 6/5/2011 Total Score: 4.2
Bottle (No. 7) at København ØLfestival 2011 - Thanks. Black - brown head. Nice mellow bourbon, fruity, burned malts, licorice, nice malty, berries, whiskey, carcoal, roasted, light hoppy. Lovely smooth body.

Bottle #198. This was rate number 10,000 for my good beer buddy John (Saxo) who had to have a bourbon barrel aged beer for this occasion :o) Almost black with a big brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, wood, vanilla and bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and very bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with heavy alcohol. 091212

Bottle # 198 of 374 @ run to 10k session. Rating # 10.000! As I have finally learned to appreciate bourbon barrelled imperial stouts it had to be one of those, since I have done my share of downratings of those. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, bitter chocolate, fruits, vanilla, coffee and hops. Dry finish with some alcohol present.

Pours dark brown with awhite brownish foam. Intense aromas of choco-coffee, nuts, some earth. Licorice, meat, chocolate, and some hops in the mouth. Cream bubbles. Super concentrated. Balancing bitterness. Bottle 33 of 374.

Bottle #41/374 shared by esp0r with me, edvard and simonsen, september 29th 2012, thanks man! Body is all black, with a medium sixed beige head. Malty aroma with smoke, dark fruits, alcohol and coffee. Taste of dark chocolate, roasted malt, Maybe a bit too high bourbon notes, licorice. Thick bodied, warm lasting roasted finish.

Sampled at SBWF11 Black with a bubbly, beige head. Vinoius chocolate in both aroma and flavour. Milky palate.

Limited edition bottle numbered as #41 of total 371 shared at the daje & esp0r hits #1000 rates sessions.
Pours black with a tanned head. Smells of bourbon, vanilla, roasted malts and caramel. Taste is heavy sweet, quite boozy. The bourbon is a very dominating factor in the flavor. Moderate bitter, quite fuzzy mouthfeel. Compared to the non-barrelled version this is a step down. Unbalanced, too much bourbon. And the hops from the original is sadly gone (due to barrell of course)