Kentucky Friar
Martin City Brewing Company

Brown in color with a hazy complexion likely from the bourbon barrel aging. There’s a fingernail of beige around the rim and covering nearly all of the top. The aroma is of oak, vanilla, and malt. I taste a wallop of malt, oak, vanilla, and alcohol. The mouth is boozy, crisp, and dry.

12oz can. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a fluffy, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of bourbon, vanilla, oak and toasted caramel. Sweet caramel, toffee, vanilla and some strong bourbon notes.

 

 

 

This beer is phenomenal. Poured into a tulip glass, huge caramel and boozy smells. Dark golden color. I haven't had a beer that adapts to barrel aging as well as this does since the original Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad. Seriously phenomenal. Grab them up if you can still find them. Ridiculously good.

Pours a clear copper with a finger of white foam. Aroma is clove, toffee, molasses and brown sugar stacked on toasty, nutty and caramely malts. It smells dense and heavy, albeit not dark and roasty. Flavor profile is similar sugary sweet qualities of toffee, molasses and brown sugar above toasty, nutty and caramely malts. It's not sickly sweet, but it certainly sugary. Mouth feel is medium-thick, perhaps thick if served warm, with a lightly frothy, heavy sea foam texture. Overall, rich and dense with a lot of sugary qualities. It pulls just shy of being a dessert beer.

Draft. Reviewed from notes.

Fat KC women get skinny when I drink this great beer.

 

Big whiskey presence. Well balanced. Zero hop presence. Perfect beer for room temp winter drinking. Prost