Style: Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Maple Stout
Container: 22oz Bottle
Glassware: 8oz Flutes
Notes: intense imperial oatmeal stout brewed with a healthy amount of the best maple syrup money can buy, from our friends BliS in Michigan and then aged in barrels that previously aged that same syrup. .(10.7%)
They finally bottled it! Does it live up to that 2oz pour I had a few years ago! Reid joins me this week because Mike wasn’t around but let’s be honest, he would hate this beer.
Style: Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 750ml
Glassware: Darkling
Notes: Canadian Breakfast Stout is an Imperial Stout brewed with a blend of coffees and imported chocolates, then aged in spent bourbon barrels that have most recently been aging pure Michigan maple syrup(11.7%)
Rating: 4.25/5 (Reid: 4.3)
We’ve got Reid back with us this week to review another one of the beers I brought back from my Chicago trip a few weeks back.
Style: Barrel Aged Milk Stout
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: (From Website) The sweetness of the base beer lends balance to the otherwise prominent barrel character, mellowing the harsh. A marriage of all things dark, sweet and woody. (9.7%)
Rating: 4.75/5
Welcome to another Nerdsense Drinks compilation episode!! We’ve edited together Episodes 4 and Episode 5 which are Ecliptic Brewings Canopus IPA and a head to head battle between Sierra Nevada’s Narwhal Imperial Stout and their Barrel Aged Narwhal!
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.75/5
Notes: Light and crisp. Awesome citrus malt balance. Super smooth. Floral and grapefruit on the nose
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwall
Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 5/5
Notes: Nose – Bourbon (Duh!) Vanilla, sweeter aroma, caramel and chocolate makes the sweetness. Flavor – Chocolaty and much sweeter with less coffee than the regular Narwall. Lots and lots of bourbon
Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.5/5
Notes: Smells mellow coffee, very boozy on the nose, cocoa. Taste is dark chocolate, coffee, boozy without a burn in the back
Narwall + Barrel Aged Narwall Blend
Notes: Milkshake or Sweet Stout. This takes the harshness out and it’s extremely smooth. The smell isn’t much but the flavor is great!
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