Appearance - Dark brown lacing with a good sized head on the initial pour. The head is a dark brown and the rest is a very dark brown almost molasses color which makes this a one of the darker colored stouts that i have seen in awhile.
Smell - Bourbon, burnt wood smell & cherries. For a 11% abv beer i do not smell any up front alchohol or booze smell form this so i can already tell this might be a great balanced stout.
Taste - When tasting this it almost tastes sweet like how sweetened vanilla soymilk hits your mouth. It quickly balances out and at the back of your throat you can taste the slight bourbon burn which then turns to the coffee flavor. The coffee flavor is sweetened and is a pleasant taste versus lots of other stouts that add coffee into it because a lot of them are overpowered and this has a nice balance from the bourbon barrel flavor.
Mouthfeel - This is a easy drinking stout i wish it had more of the mouthfeel of creaminess like you would get from a guiness or even a Fifty Fifty Eclipse stout but hell i can't complain because this the taste of this is overly enjoyable. This also has more body than most because it is not as watery as some other stouts that i have tried to drink.
Overall - This is an amazing balanced stout but for some i could see this being more on the sweet side. I have no problem dissecting the flavor profiles which i find sometimes gets really confused in other stouts. This is one of those stouts that you wish could be year around because of the balance in flavor and is not overdone.
If i had a chance to buy this beer i would have no problem shelling out cash to buy this again. I feel this stout is one that would not age well because of the coffee profiles would be lost with age. Next year i will be surely enjoying more of this beer and buying more than one bottle!
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