Brownings Bourbon Imperial Stout

Brewed by Brownings Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Louisville, Kentucky USA

@Jimmacks pre BeerWars Gathering-22oz bottle–pours a light brown ring for a head and black color. Aroma is sweet dark malt-licorice, dark fruit. Taste is sweet dark malt-licorice, dark fruit-tart, wood/paper and soy.

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of bourbon, raisins, lots of sweet malt. Tastes spicy and lightly soured with some bourbon and mild alcohol presence. Nice!

Bottle shared by goldtwins. Dark black brown beer. Thin tan head. Aroma is loaded with oak and bourbon over a soft chocolate and cocoa maltiness. A sweet bourbony vanilla character. Light caramelly malt base but it seems a little bit thin. Gets quite boozy as it starts to warm up as well.

Draft at BB. Poured a dark brown with an average creamy light brown head that diminished slowly and had good lacing. Good roasted malt and a sweet bourbon aroma. Medium body. Heavy toffee and bourbon complex flavor with a smooth long finish. Good complex brew.

Poured a dark brown with a small beige head. The aroma had notes of vanilla and was mildly tart. Roasty malt. That’s about it for the aroma and flavor. Medium bodied and warming.

Jim Mack’s Pre-Beer Wars Gathering. 2006 vintage. Pours a brown body with a tan coffee head. Hints of chocolate, toffee some light roasted malt character and a hint of light whiskey. Chewy some soy and paper y notes. Missed the mark.

Bomber- bottled in 2006. Pours a nice deep brownish almost black, with a moderate lasting head, fades a bit after a while- no lace. Aroma is a moderately oxidized right form the start- cardboard and slight soy, wet paper is heavy- no sherry yet- some old stale slight bourbon but not heavy-0 some old stale chocolate malts, burnt acrid roasted malts and old coffee grounds. Flavor is a bit slick with soy and wet paper- has a slight tart edge to it around the tongue- chocolate, and roasted barley, some tar, leather and earth- very dry and crackery malts, and more bland oxidation that compresses the complexity that might have been here a couple years ago. Slick and stale in the mouthfeel with a rim of acidity. Meh.

Another rare bomber brought by Kevster, thanks.

It pours deep deep brown with thin head. Sizable aroma of coffee, sweet molasses, hints of toffee and nice wood aromatics too. There are some neutral flavors to start and then molasses sweetness and coffee start to stand out. Then as the taste moves to the midway point hints of bourbon and wood enter the picture. There’s also a slight tartness in there as well. Ends a bit thin.