Purple Monkey Dishwasher - Jameson Barrel-Aged
Evil Genius Beer Company

I am taking a slight detour from all of my earlier madness. I REALLY want to get this one in before time gets away from us. This is all brand-new to The CANQuest (tm) - a Crowler, which qualifies as a CAN on this site, per a long-ago hammered-out standard; a barrel-aged variant & even some liquor as an acCANponiment. Well, the latter may not be new, but the rest of it sure is!

From the Crowler/CAN: "Friendly Greek Bottle Shop"; "Beer fresh from the tap. Enjoy this Crowler (R) CAN within a few days for maximum freshness."

I was a little beyond that, but better now than later or never. I was ready with a bottle of Jameson's Caskmates - Stout Edition as an acCANponiment. I keep reading about people clamoring about the closing of our State Stores & a limited access to liquor! 8=O I like liquor, perhaps too much, which is why I walked away from it for over a decade, but I CAN live without it. Still, this self-quarantine has made me realize that I actually have a decent liquor cabinet, so to speak. No cabinet, but plenty o' variegated liquors. A few CANned wines (!), but mostly liquor.

The Crack! of the vent proved the owner's generosity, spraying my fingertips with it due to its being brimful with nowhere for the tongue to go. 8=O I used to do this at CKW2G. You fill it to the brim, put on the lid, use the seamer to hydraulically-press out the excess, wipe it down & GTG! Nobody notices but the grateful customer who comes back for more. 8=) I had to go with a REALLY slow, gentle C-Line Glug as the potential for a spill and/or disaster was incrementally or even geometrically higher than ever before in CANQuest (tm) history! Sure as s**t, it created a bubble & then let go, charging my glass MUCH more quickly than intended! 8=O I quickly moved to get things back under CANtrol, but I still wound up with two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, light-tan head with great retention. Color was Dark Brown to Very Dark Brown (SRM = > 27, < 34) with mahogany highlights. 8=O Nose was peanut butter & whiskey! 8=O I could smell all of it as soon as I Crack!ed the vent, but now, it was unabating! 8=) The taste was just what this beer needed. I have had P.M.D.W. before & found it too sweet for my taste. Now, with the barrel aging, it was tamed & rendered just right. It was still plenty tasty of peanut butter, but the whiskey & wood reduced the beer's cloying sweetness. This is CANother very forgiving style, allowing for a LOT of leeway. "Innovation" is the operative word here. It was a stroke of (Evil) Genius to put an already-popular beer into casks that may have already CANtained Stouts. Hmm. Phew. I'm definitely taking a break after this CANbo, but man, I am totally digging the ride. I now beCAN to rock back & forth as British Invasion tunes played in me head. Oi! Ah'm feckin'gone, in'it, mate? It all crept in like CANt's feet at Foggy Bottom in DC. Oi, eh felt underway as the rockin' lulled me under. Finish had a peanut-buttery, chocolatiness that refused to quit. Call it semi-sweet to semi-dry & then call it a day! YMMV.