UPDATED: OCT 8, 2023 12oz bottle from JohnGalt1. Ruddy amber pour, small off-white foamy head. Aroma is malty, caramel with bourbon notes. Taste is mildly sweet and boozy, brown sugar, pit fruit, toffee and a nice amount of bourbon.

UPDATED: OCT 7, 2023 12oz bottle pours out amber copper color topped with a sand head. Nose is big caramel toffee malts pine and some barrel. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts caramel toffee and bourbon barrel notes.

UPDATED: NOV 11, 2022 12 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany / dark brown head. Aroma brings out lots of dark dried fruits, bourbon barrel, and bready caramel. Flavour is very boozy and hot, with hot bourbon barrels, dark dried fruits, some tartness, and bready malt. Way too hot and slightly tart. Pretty harsh and lacking coordination. It’s okay.

UPDATED: MAR 28, 2020 Bottle from the Taverooni. Dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is toffee, molasses, raisins, bourbs, aged hops. Flavor is sweet raisin prune toffee juice, bourbon, but the aged hop flavor just isn’t the best. Honestly American b-wizzle can drop off the earth, and that’s a promise (“The Room” line). English spanks, American blows. Full body, medium carb.

UPDATED: MAR 25, 2020 Waxed bottle. Poured a deep amber to brown color with a smaller sized tan head. Vanilla, wood / oak, sweet, dark fruits, and bourbon. Nice sipper.

UPDATED: MAR 21, 2020 Gold wax-dipped 12 oz. Aroma is Bourbon, caramel, wood, toffee, licorice. Pours hazy brown with a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is highly sweet, not cloying, savory, with a lightly bitter finish. Kind of boozy, but not overwhelmingly so. Perfect velvety mouthfeel. Another amazing BA barleywine.

UPDATED: MAR 19, 2020 Aromas of aged wort syrup wort malt molasses nougat caramel sugared apricots grains barley malted barley vanilla oak shoe leather suede and bourbon. Taste is aged wort syrup nougat vanilla molasses oak shoe leather bourbon malted barley heaps of barley grain malt oats straight bourbon booze corn syrup and candied apricot. Overall, quite nice.

UPDATED: MAY 7, 2019 2013 bottle from alexsdad06. Clear copper pour with a thick tan head. Nose of malt, caramel, hop and bourbon. Sweet malt and caramel flavor with hop accents before a bourbon finish.

Pours a deep brown-amber with off white head. BOURBon boozy aroma. Quite sweet and intense, malty syrupy with a nice warm Kentucky hug going down; lots of bourbon character. This is more of a winter supper than a summer beer. Notes: on tap at the brewery, Aug ‘18

Bottle I had in the cellar for a while. Pours a caramel brown with some sticky, off white head. Nose of booze, vanilla, caramel, sticky toffee. Flavor is boozy, vanilla, toffee, caramel. Sweet and sticky finish.