The Great Northern Barrel Aged Series 8
Evil Twin Brewing

 

 

This one pours a murky dark brown color, with a very small head, and no lacing.

This smells like creamy coconut, oak, red berries, vanilla, chocolate, and caramel.

I tend to like the non-adjunct editions in this series, but this is an example where the added flavor version is base is better than the clean version. The coconut is done well, it's toasty, moderately sweet, and kind of tames some of the heavy fruit character that barrel gives off. There's caramel, maple, and molasses, with a smear of vanilla frosting across the whole thing.

This is medium bodied, semi-syrupy, with a lower level of carbonation. It's definitely best that this comes in a smaller can.

This isn't the absolute best in this series, but it's still a very tasty little (?) beer.

served in a 5oz snifter glass from the can.

Appearance: Mahogany blended with an opaque amber with medium bubbles on the body rising at best half a finger's length off the body.

Smell: Deep whiskey with hints of toffee candy just making love to your nose.

Taste: Ridiculously complex brew. You taste a soft candy with hints of toffee and vanilla meshed with vanilla and harder dose of raisin. Light coconut coming off like a almond joy bar mixed with caramel.

Mouth: stickier than tar under your shoe, I am falling in lust. A brew which makes love to your palates well after you put then glass down.

Overall: If you are lucky to have this thank whoever you got it from. Incredibly and addicting. Salud!