Full Sail Top Sail Imperial Porter Bourbon Barrel Aged

Formerly brewed at Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Hood River, Oregon USA

22oz bottle. thanks Sparky! pours slick black with small fizzy head that doesn’t last long. the aroma started off very dusty woody but once it breathed it opened up a bit more with some soft buttery bourbon notes, vanilla, and chocolate. flavors are a bit rough around the edges, lots of wood, chocolate, and hints of dark fruits. a bit fizzy mouth feel and thin body. really tasty sipper but it lacks finese like most full sails.

Pours a brown color with a brown head. Aroma is chocolate, oak, some vanilla, roast, bourbon, and some alcohol. Flavor is malty, caramel, fruit, oak, vanilla, bourbon, and alcohol. 5/31/08: Pours a black color with a brown head. Aroma is bourbon, caramel, vanilla, cherries, chocolate, and oak. Flavor is malty, caramel, oak, vanilla, bourbon, chocolate, roast, a sweet bourbon alcohol finish.

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Pours deep black with a nice fine tan head. Nose is dominated by the characteristic bourbon vanillas that mark the BA Black Gold; flavor as well, with powerful bourbon character this comes through dry and almost chalky, serious mouth-drying woodiness on top of some high ABV head. Fairly mellow roastiness considering the style, not a burnt-coffee porter or anything of the sort, just an adequate dark-malt backdrop to show off the BA character.

It’s very drinkable, certainly enjoyable, but somehow lacks the depth that would be required to put it into the top echelon of BA imperial stouts and porters.

22 oz bottle, via thooper41. Pours a black body under a 1cm fizzy mocha brown head that slowly subsided to a thin covering. The nose is equal parts bourbon, oak, and Porter. A little vanilla and char, and minimal alcohol for 10%. The flavor is a little more bourbon forward, but also alot more of the vanilla too. Some burnt notes, coffee, tar, moderate alcohol, a little sweet on the finish. Mouthfeel is full bodied and a little oily and clingy. Moderate fizzy soft carbonation. Long lingering bourbon finish. Overall, pretty nice, very on par with their Bourbon Barrel Black Gold. You know that it’s a BA beer, but it’s more than a one trick pony.

Bottle courtesy Degarth. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, coffee, and oak. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium mouthfeel with a mild to moderate amount of bitterness and well hidden alcohol. Very good.

22oz bottle, courtesy of acrdz. Thanks, Mike! Pours a murky, dark chocolate color; thin khaki head with patchy lacing. Strong bourbon presence in the aroma: burnt / charred wood character, some toasty vanilla, and plenty of dark chocolate; generous and pleasant, if slightly overly ashy and charred. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: strongly roasted / burnt malts, bitter chocolate, warming bourbon-infused wood; the bourbon character is somewhat subdued, and certainly doesn’t have the depth of some of the best barrel-aged beers (BA Alesmiths, Older Viscosity, etc.). Lengthy finish shows toasty malts, cardboard and cereal, with some lingering bourbony/wood warmth.

Thanks a ton to Sam (Turdferguson) for sharing this. Pours a dark black that allows some light, the body doesn’t look too thick. Barely any head, thin and brown. The aroma was very oaky and definitely showed bourbon. Tart oak, vanilla, fruity, alcohol, roasty. The flavor was very oak heavy, tart oak flavors and some waxy tannins, chocolate, alcohol, the base beer for this does not seem to be very forward and allows the barrel aging to predominate easily. Nice barrel aging though, the oak and bourbon are very predominant without being ridiculously so. Average consistency in the mouth, not really any carbonation, warming.

bottle rom kenb: pours a good black colour with a thin line of tan head. aroma is great, good buorbon aroma with nice chocolate and very good roast. flavour is intense dark roast with some alcohol bourbon nice dark fruit very intense.