Barley Island Beastie Barrel Stout

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

12oz - Aroma is roasted dark malts, chocolate, dry cocoa, vanilla and a touch of oak. Pours black with a small ring head and good lacing. Flavor is thick with chocolate followed by vanilla and roasted malts. Palate is dry. Very tasty.

Bomber from a long ago trade with STFun. Pours a deep reddish black with a thick tan head. Aroma was sweet vanilla, bourbon, and hints of chocolate malt. Sweet malt and chocolate taste with more hints of the vanilla and a touch of bourbon. Not a bad sweet stout.

(12oz bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium brown head. Aroma of chocolate, roastiness, molasses, vanilla, and light bourbon. Flavor of chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, and light vanilla.

This beer is a deep brown-black color with a medium tan head that recedes quickly. Top ring of lacing with spots underneath. The aroma consists of dark malt, oak and coffee. Full body with flavors of oak, vanilla coffee and burnt malt. Bourbon character is well-subdued. The finish is malty and leaves a nice vanilla and coffee aftertaste. Overall this is a decent Stout that falls more on the side of a good Coffee Stout rather than going overboard with the barrel aged flavors.

12oz bottle. Black pour with a medium light brown head. Malty aroma with a tad bit of hop and some booze. Lots of malt flavor with some hop and coffee. Very good because the alcohol is there but not overdone.

12oz bottle from StFun, as part of the latest round of NP10. Thanks, Josh!!! Oh how I love coffee flavors in a stout. This one has a big roasty nose, rich toasted malts with a strong barrel presence to it as well. The pour is moderate, with a decent tan head and prickly carbonation. The bourbon tends to dominate a bit too much in the taste, overwhelming some of what’s there in the solid base beer. Mouthfeel is slightly thin too. But it’s a decent brew that I’m glad to have tried.

Bottle received via trade with StFun. Aroma of vanilla and whiskey. Flavor was very nice, mellow oak, smoke, malt and toffee that mellowed into a pleasant smooth and warming aftertaste. A good local IN beer that would do well on a national stage.

Attractive oily black pour with rich rocky head. The nose is roasted barley malt and chocolate. Somewhat thin in texture, surprisingly in light of the thick viscour pour. The flavors are roasted grain, chocolate, vanilla, but no wood, no bourbon, no barrel qualities to speak of. OK.