Mikkeller Big Worst Barley Wine Bourbon Edition

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Slightly red honey brown body with a tiny cap that reduce to the thinnest of bubble rings after a few seconds but at an insane 19.2% what else would you expect? There is not surprisingly alcohol in the nose but not even close to the amount that you think there should be. Oak, Jack Daniels, rye, some very interesting funk, butt loads of sour wood. Did I hear somebody say “YUM YUM”? Taste is warm and smooth. The Bourbon flavor is so very easy to pick out, and it mingles very well with the barleywine flavours. Some generic citrus, more wood, heavy oak, vanilla, slight astringent. Stomach on fire halfway through bottle, cat somehow seems funnier than normal, fighting urge to speaker dance while alone in basement. The flavor is bringing back memories of my Mother putting Grand Marnier liquor over top of vanilla ice cream. Flavour is amazingly strong but doesn’t get the crap out of your taste buds. This is probably the best or at least in my top three barrel aged beers of all time. Hitting some dry green grape flavours. There are so many flavours going on here but I’m having problems putting names to them, and walking is also getting difficult. Yummers…….