UPDATED: JAN 14, 2024 Bought at Founders Brewing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 12 ounce bottle at the house in Stow, Ohio. Smell malt and bourbon. Bronze in color with white head. Taste the malt, bourbon, and slight sweetness. Little bit boozy. Complex. Bourbon lingers in the aftertaste. Wonderful beer for a cold winter night. Cheers!

UPDATED: OCT 20, 2023 Sweet and strong, but still a dangerously smooth sipper. Rich malts, and complex on the palate. Caramel and a little fresh pine. Good.

UPDATED: JUL 13, 2023 Pours clear orange-amber with a 2-finger off-white head. Caramel-bourbon aroma with a note of wood beneath. Full-bodied and a touch on the syrupy side. The finish is long, with a mild boozy astringency. Sweet bourbon flavor that is cut by the barrel wood. As it warms, a bit of the stereotypical grain notes show.

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2023 Taste: bready, malty sweet, spicy bourbon, oak, robust finish. Ferment barley malt, bread nose. Dark Amber/Copper hue. clear, with delicate head and fingered lace of barrel aged beers. Medium/full body. Smooth.

UPDATED: JAN 22, 2023 Bottle pour, bourbon and caramel aroma. Notes of caramel, bourbon, and burnt sugar.

UPDATED: DEC 23, 2022 From 12 ounce bottle bought at The Party Source, tasted on September 24, 2022. Medium amber hue, aroma of bourbon and toasted malt, nicely balanced flavor of bourbon and toasted malt, with some complexity. which is strong but not overwhelming. Very fine brew.

UPDATED: NOV 17, 2022 Perhaps the ultimate malt bomb, caramel and molasses and more caramel, with a slight smokiness on the back end and whiskey and baking spices on the finish. Over the top, but I can’t think of a better beer to wrap up Oktoberfest season.

UPDATED: OCT 28, 2022 It pours amber with a white head. It had below average head retention. It has strong bourbon aromas with toast. There are some light spicy notes in the background. It has toast flavors with strong bourbon notes. It is somewhat sweet with maybe a touch of toffee. There are low spicy notes. It has a medium body with strong alcohol warming. Overall, it's a bit boozy, but an interesting take on a marzen.

UPDATED: OCT 23, 2022 Clear copper pour with a white soapy head that dissipates quickly. Aroma of vanilla, bourbon, and some fig. Vanilla and bourbon dominate the flavor with notes of caramel, fig, and toasted malt.

UPDATED: OCT 15, 2022 Been wanting to try this brew. Ruby chestnut colored. Nose is all vanilla bourbon. Tatses of bourbon, vanilla, caramel, leafs, wood. Silky palate.