Liquid Spiritual Delight - Barrel-Aged - Madagascar Vanilla
2nd Shift Brewing

A - Pours a motor oil black with a thin tan head. Some slick oily lacing.

S - Aroma is heavy bourbon, vanilla and dark chocolate.

T - The taste is vanilla, black coffee, dark chocolate, caramel, bourbon and oak.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a slick dry finish.

O - Solid BBA stout. I wish the vanilla was a little more pronounced, but other wise really nice.

12 ounce draught hit at Stillwater Grille in beautiful Ft. Myers, FL.
Pours flat black with a thin crown of tan head.
Smells of medium roast malt, vanilla, cocoa, bourbon. Pleasant!
Taste is milk chocolate and vanilla combined with oak forward bourbon. Good long finish, slightly sweet.
Medium density in the mouth, a little bit of carbonation.
Overall, a fine adjunct Stout that I think I’ll have another of.
Bartender!!

Canned on 3/22/2022; consumed on 9/22/2022

Pours a silky, motor-oil black body capped with ¾ of a finger of fluffy, pale mocha foam; quick head retention leaves a near-black surface, a contrastingly rich froth of collar, and no substantive lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aromas of bourbon-soaked graham cracker followed by a dark chocolate dusting as floral vanilla eases, leaving oily malts imbued with oak into a steady roast apparent over time.

Taste features bittersweet dark cocoa and burnt vanilla upfront, leaving bourbon oak into a subtle dark fruit imbuement over the mid-palate as a delayed, roasty char redolent of burnt brownie crusts extends across the profile over time.

Mouthfeel shows a body on the lighter end of medium along with a silky, rounded, moderate carbonation building to a slick density and imparting an extended, roasty grit across a hefty warmth over the palate.

Deftly adjuncted and flaunting seamless transitions between bittersweet roast, sweeping barrel, and understated vanilla inflection; a thorough expression of unassumingly skilled cohesion in a barrel-aged stout.