Barley Island Beastie Barrel Stout

Brewed by Barley Island Brewing
Style: Stout
Noblesville, Indiana USA

22oz’er from Khans on Keystone. Pours a clear brown with abit of tan foamy head. Nose is dominated by the barrel aging giving it a one-sided aroma. It was nice tho’ as there were some underlying notes of toffee and chocolate just not upfront and personal.

Bomber shared with muenster and NachlamSie. Pours black with amber extremities and a big tan head. The aroma is coffee, raisins, whisky, and hints of alcohol, caramel, and toffee. The flavor is dominated by interesting coffee notes, with some distant bitter chocolate. Some smoky bourbon notes come out once in a while, but not too often (as seems to frequently be the case with barrel aged stuff). The aftertaste is quite warm. Grainy oat flavor is apparent at times, too, though not as smoothly as other oatmeal stouts. Pretty good in all.

Bottle split with Muenster, Tronraner. A nice dark chocolate-colored pour into our glasses reveals a very heady brew. The aroma obviously has bourbon and a chocolate nut bar. The oats are very much noticed. In the mouth bourbon is easily noticed, but it doesn’t overwhelm or interrupt the other flavors of the stout. Rather, it melds well with the chocolate/coffee flavors not to mention the dense toasted oats. The finish reminds me of a Girl Scout Samoa cookie, just imagine it not being sweet. This makes a great sipper with a medium-heavy palate and very assertive flavors.

Bomber, thanks NachlamSie. Pours dark black/brown/ruby with a massive dark tan head. The aroma was very nice, strong on the bourbon, with notes of coffee, and chocolate. I didn’t detect any oatmeal in the aroma, but the flavor was bursting with sweet oats, coffee, and bourbon, and wood. Very nice.

22 oz bomber-very dark brown with a huge beige head which resembles oxidization-fizzy and very small bubbles. very oxidized nose no borubon left in the nose at all. toasted and chared cardboard flavors. man this is bad. 3 sips was enough. drain pour!

Solid black body. Nose is a slightly woody burbon. Flavour is slightly burnt malts (black patent) with some chocolate flavours and a light burbon.

Bottle. Opaque body with a thin film of bubbles. Nose-butter, bourbon, smoke, char. Taste-char, burnt coffee, acrid char (in a good way). The char overwhelms all of the other flavors.

Opaque, black with a thick, overcarbed, chunky, light brown head. Very nice vanilla and oak aroma coupled with a soft oatmeal, a warm, yeast fruit, and charcoal. Carbonation and bitterness are overdone but underneath all of the aroma components are there with the roast creating a long, dry finish but also a hint of soy sauce.