Americas Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout

Brewed by Americas Brewpub
Style: Imperial Stout
Aurora, Illinois USA

courtesy of 6daybottomocean pours black oil, thin mocha head with lasting golden lacing. Aroma is of soy, with strong bourbon aroma and some wood oak chip. Flavor, lost of malts, bourbon with light vanilla. Boozy palate with some chocolate, low carbonation. As the beer gained in temperature, I was getting a lot more chocolate and some bitetrness. Finish has some char, smoke and wood elements.

Bottle from Archer Liquors. Pours black with a decent dark tan head. Aroma is treacle, bourbon, burnt malt, chocolate and likely a bunch of other stuff. Near full bodied with fluffy carbonation. Flavor is chocolate, vanilla, maybe oak, and coffee and burnt malt. Quite smooth though. Ain’t Paradox, but it’s in that category. Damn tasty beer.

Special thanks to beastiefan2k for sharing this bottle with me:
12oz bottle. Liquid Candied Sex. Black pour, dark brown head. Big aroma wafting out of the glass. Vanilla, bourbon, candy, chocolate. Huge vanilla aroma. Flavor of alcohol, chocolate, bourbon, chocolate, and vanilla beans.
"This is definitely where I parked my car!"

Bottle. Aroma is very chocolatey, significant barrell character. Opaque, motor oil brown with a thin creamy tan head that leaves thin lines of sporadic lacing. Quite sweet and chocolately upfront, not a really potent bourbon flavor, but it is present and noticeable oak in the finish. Full and creamy with a welcome faint carbonation.

100th rater. I really liked this Impy Stout, which is unusual for a barrel aged beer. Fortunately, this wasn’t an alcohol bomb, the barrel and bourbon character were low as well. Pours black as heck with a dark brown head, which fades quickly. Aroma is sweet and sugary with slight tobacco. Close enough to a pastry, I like those kind of stouts. There is light licorice and of course plenty of chocolate. All those residual sugars hide any alcohol but it never gets into the tooth ache sweetness. Flavor is similarly sweet and sugary, chocolate but there is a bit of barrel coming through in a plummy char character. Again, low on alcohol perception, don’t get much oak side effects. Thick body with a reduced carbonation makes for a thick and filling mouthfeel. I like this stuff.
12oz bottle, no date, La Chouffe tasting glass.

12 oz bottle. Nice viscous looking black pour with a tight bubbled small dark brown head that faded to a thin ring pretty quickly. The nose is huge vanilla and bourbon with some roasted malt, wood, heavy alcohol, some dark chocolate fudge cake, and burnt caramel. The flavor is overly boozy, loaded with charred oak and vanilla and pretty well lacks any subtlety at all. There’s a touch of soy like oxidation creeping in on the back end as well. A bit of an almost sour cherry twang on the back end doesn’t mix well with the heavy alcohol. Full bodied and thick with fine fizzy carbonation. This was just a bit too overly bourbon-y for my tastes.

Bottled about 2008... sometime. Aroma is porty, oaky, bourbon. Chalky, roasted malts yum! Taste is thin, slightly sour, bourbon, a bit of smoke, char, and roasted malts. Palate is a bit thin due to the BB aging, a bit bitter, slightly sour, and carbonated. Yum. Very nice.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy with a frothy top fine to large sized dark brown colored bubbles that were and left behind a opaque no visible carbonation dark brown colored body and an excellent lacing. The aroma was brown malt dark malt and bourbon. The thick mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The strong flavor contained notes of mild hops vinous and bourbon. A wonderful best in class brew.