Fair State Purple Tooth Barrel-aged Imperial Stout.9 % ABV. Fair State Brewing Cooperative, Minneapolis, St. Paul, MN.
Serious blackness, complete opacity, dark brown head.
In the nose: Red wine takes the lead, bourbon a bit behind. Cocoa and coffee even farther back. Barrel aging's got a hold of this one.
In the mouth: Mmm. The flavors of an Imperial Stout comes forward on first sip, with swaddled in the barrel effects just off to the side. Cocoa, caramel, coffee, dark fruits, lapped up in layers of the wine and then the whiskey. Very delicious, very potent. Full-bodied, and pretty damned remarkable. Utterly satisfactory. Yum meets a dum dum.
Barrel-aged stout aged in bourbon barrels previously used to hold redwine.
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