Boundless Barrel Aged Big Stout
Out of Bounds Craft Kitchen & Biergarten

Hey while I'm reviewing beers that I had at Eclipse 2017, lets hit this one up. Shared by the owner/brewer/employee or someone affiliated with the brewery. Seemed like a cool dude.

Looked nice, when you're an upstart brewery, and you bring a barrel aged stout to the Eclipse party, you better be ready. But this one could hang in the appearance department, it was black, thick and poured with a brown head that would extrapolate to around 1/2" in a normal drinking vessel. Aroma had the big whiskey notes, charred chocolate malt and wood, the prototypical smells in this style.

Taste was a big beer, seemed to have ample bitterness, seemed like a hefty amount of C hops for this one, might be around 85ibu if I was guessing. Its a big beer, I can taste alcohol plenty well, but its not oppressive, I mean, its 12% you're not gonna cover that up especially without adjuncts. Very very light sweetness, possibly rye based whiskey.

Overall its a pretty good beer. Hell I think given the good nature of the guy sharing, I'd buy another bottle on that stewardship alone. No off flavors here.

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