Uncle Stepdad's
Everybody's Brewing

2026-05-25
16oz can served in a curvy Monhegan pint glass. Dated 11/18/2025. Given to me by my Alaskan math teacher friend last night.

Pours dark, basically black, medium sized head. Carbonation is detectable, but tiny and slow. Smell is dark roast coffee, some anise, good but not too nuanced.

Taste is nice -- molasses and vanilla thrown in generously, roasty bitterness is strong, anise is dialed back a smidge. Roast coffee is still pretty dominant, but playing really nicely with the bourbon barrel.

Mouthfeel is medium. Overall, very nice.

 

 

This is about as black a beer as I"ve seen. And it tastes that way too, though with the addition of booze and a pervasive burnt sugar flavor. The hops are quite bold and the aftertaste is quite bitter. Pleasant boozy aroma with the roasted grain in the nose. this is maybe more bitter than it needs to be, but still a better than average big dark brew. Very nice creamy mouthfeel, and then the alcohol punches you again. From the 16 oz can that says "2023 Edition."

 

 

I am sampling a cellar temp 16 oz can poured into a snifter. Date stamp is 12062022. Which I assume is the canned on date. label agrees with a 2022 vintage tag.
The beer pours a black coffee color with no light passing through my glass. A dense creamy tan head foams up about 1 cm and fades to a sturdy surface covering that sticks around for the entire tasting. Very dense lattice on the sips and swirls throughout the tasting too.
Aroma is roasted malts and dark chocolate and a little bit of a tobacco note too. Decent amount of bourbon scent here too, but not boozy, more sweet bourbon. No hop character at this point.
First sip reveals a medium body with fairly sharp carbonation and a smooth texture. Maybe a little stickiness on my palate after each swallow.
Flavor is similar to the nose, with roasted malt notes, dark chocolate, a bit of charred wood and a good amount of sweet bourbon. Finish actually dries out and is never warming or boozy. No real hop note on this front either. This is a bit of an olde school fairly straightforward BBA Impy Stout. Glad to have tried it

16oz can from Bert's. Near black pour, thick beige, creamy head. Aroma is roasty and sweet, chocolate. Taste continues, sweet chocolatey notes, light roast. Not much sign of the bourbon, but really enjoying the flavors. Very approachable RIS.

From a can. Two finger head, creamy brown color, black body. Lots of bourbon on the nose, a hint of spice, coconut, vanilla, caramel fudge. Taste is very rich and chocolatey, quite sweet upfront. Vanilla and coconut are present, as are roasty coffee and char notes, but the bulk of the body is fudgey chocolate and bourbon. Oh boy is there bourbon, from the first sip through the warm finish. The mouth feel is creamy smooth, which is nice because wow. The booze is the center of attention here, and while 10.5 is certainly strong it still punches above its weight.

 

 

Appearance – Clear dark brown body with a one finger tan head.

Aroma – Dark roasted malt, bitter coffee, light cacao nibs, a little tang of boozy alcohol

Taste – Dark roasted malt and bitter coffee with hints of bourbon and vanilla. Alcohol evident.

Mouthfeel – A bit thin but it coats the tongue nicely.

Overall – A big beer, not too bad but the alcohol was a little too noticeable.

 

 

Very dark appearance with one finger tan head that dedicates quickly. Aroma is a mild barrel aged. Taste is also a mild barrel aged stout that has no alcohol aftertaste.

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a nearly pitch black, opaque in the glass with a thin brown head that dissipates to pataches with slight lacing. Aroma of mild dark toasted malt, bourbon and faint cocoa. Flavor is mild dark toasted malt, bourbon, hints of vanilla and cocoa, finishing with bourbon and a bit of coffee bitterness. Medium bodied with slight creaminess. A quite bourbon forward big stout. The malt body is a little on the light side to support the big barrel influence, but still is supportive enough throughout the taste. There is a little bitterness that tastes more like coffee than hops in the finish, and lingering dark malt and bourbon that is pretty darn good. The malt flavors seem to be nice, but are muted under the bourbon barrel, I'd like to taste them a little more, but I like bourbon and this was a good vehicle for it. The big ABV is noticeable, but supported by plenty of flavor. My favorite offering from Everybody's so far.

 

This was given to me as something of a X-mas gag gift by my sister-in-law. As it turns out, this was pretty decent for a gag gift beer.

So this is a barrel aged RIS from the folks at Everybody's Brewing.

The beer pours the expected blackish brown color with good head retention and lacing. On the nose, there's considerable bourbon, but not all that much else. Still, I do pick up some underlying vanilla, coffee and chocolate that is pleasant. The beer actually delivers a bit more flavor than I was expecting on the palate, given the nose, though once again the bourbon dominates. On the other hand, mouthfeel is pretty nice in this beer, and is soft, creamy and fairly full, with a long finish. The flavor profile tended to replicate the nose otherwise. Alcohol is very well integrated into the flavor profile, and frankly, I would not have guessed that the abv. is in excess of 10%.

This beer appeared to improve as it sat in the glass and warmed a bit, reminding me very much of a poor man's Velvet Merkin. I'd take the VM any day over this beer, but on the other hand, this beer is considerably cheaper than the VM (I think I saw it for $4.99 at a store). For a $5 bomber of BA impy stout, this is really pretty impressive.