Phillips Hammer Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged

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

Black hole of color with a dark chocolate brown crown floating on top. Aroma is smooth and creamy, dark coffee, bakers chocolate,and a lingering burnt sugar hangs out in the nose. Taste is yum, burnt coffee, chocolate, and it all comes together in a light but flavorful way. Lots of nutty goodness in here. The aftertaste is intense, bitter, and lingers. Best way to describe the flavour is soft. Where is the bourbon? Where I ask?? I can get faint hints of vannilla...................maybe. Hahahaha I don’t know why but I’m tasting a "Terrie’s chocolate orange" in every sip and its making me laugh. Have I said burnt sugar yet? So very soft. Marks for taste I don’t know what to do its so dam easy to drink and yum I mean If there was such a thing a “session” Barrel aged Imperial Stout this would be it, but its lacking any of the big intense Impy stout flavours and I swear there is no bourbon in this. What to do, what to do.

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

Drank this from the bottle in a movie theatre watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I don't know what is going on in this movie. Brilliant cinematography though. The beer had a nice weight to it, bit past "medium" but not quite at heavy. Some tart coffee flavours, perhaps a note of blueberry. Brown sugar and the usual sort of things like that. Smooth, wet tasting, slightly sweet, a touch tart, nothing really bitter. Interesting. Will have again and do a review from a glass in the light, maybe in a quieter place where I can "hear" the beer too.