Berkshire Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout

Brewed by Berkshire Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
South Deerfield, Massachusetts USA

Bottle courtesy of indiapaleale. Pours a murky, used engine oil brown to black color with a thin tan head. Aroma is boozy with candy sugar, bourbon, vanilla, oak, chocolate, and maple syrup. Flavor is rich and malty with notes of chocolate, ripe dark fruit, vanilla, oak, bourbon, some hints of molasses and toffee. Generally medium to full body with a pleasing rich, malty finish.

Liquid Sunshine V. 22-oz. Big candy vanilla bourbon nose. Dark ebony with bright rubied highlights. Virtually headless and laceless. Gorgeous creamy body, almost light. Beautiful chocolate, vanilla, maple, and caramel mid-palate. Nice mild finish.

Deep black/brown with a thin off white head. Aroma is bourbon, oak, chocolate. Taste is bourbon, chocolate, roastiness, caramel,

Thanks kiefdog for the share. Pours dark brown with an off-white head. Nose is oak, vanilla, bourbon, roasted malt, booze, and some dark fruit. So bourbony that it is almost vinegary. Flavor is roasty, vanilla, sugary vinegar, and bourbony fruitiness. Medium-bodied with yellow lace upon swirl. Chocolate notes emerge later in the experience of this beer. Interesting.

Courtesy of keifdog. Pours dark brown with thin mocha head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malts and molasses that roll up into nearly robust bourbon, vanilla and oak. The taste feels a bit thin with notes of chocolate, and roasty to burnt malts. Then a I get a wave of solid bourbon, vanilla and oak. Beyond midway and into the finish a flash of sour barrel notes is noticed from time to time creating a bit of twang to go along with molasses and chocolate taking this to closure.

(22 oz. bottle from Kappy’s) Bourbon and bitter...Pours very dark brown with a thin tan head that recedes mostly to edges. Sugary bourbon aroma along with along with oak/vanilla. Mouthfeel smooth, lightly milk shakey although a touch thin. Very light rings of weepy lacing along with a syrupy film. Flavor is big sweet bourbon with oak and vanilla along with bitter dark chocolate. A touch hot. Pretty decent barrel aged beer and a bit tastier than the regular Berkshire imp stout.

FRO throwdown: Very dark, opaque, thin head. Alot of vanilla and oak with some roast underneath. Dark sweet roast flavors with undertones of oak. This one is over the top!

Bottle from the Otown throwdown. thanks fogdog. Dark pour wtih a nice tan head. MMM bourbon! Chocolate, syrup, more bourbon and some roasted malt along with the chocolate. Flavor has a great dose of bourbon, roast, vanilla, oak and some residual sweetness. Yum.