Sigil VII
Bissell Brothers Brewing Co.

This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.

This smells like roasted malt, dry oak spice, rum, rye spiciness, and dark chocolate.

This has a very intriguing barrel character, with lots of oaky bitterness, and just a hint of chocolatey sweetness on the back end. The most prominent spirit is probably the rye, with that hit of black spice, but there's also some intriguing rum-like sweetness as well.

This is medium bodied, not super thick, but not thin, with basically no booziness to it.

This is very tasty stuff - the light hand with the adjuncts really helped the barrels shine here.

 

Can't really say this one worked as much for me, but think I'm an outlier. It poured with little to no head and I couldn't get much of a smell, but not a strength of mine anyway. The chocolate was somewhat muted. The barrel was dominated by rum, couldn't get much of the rye or bourbon. There also seemed to be some other taste in there that I couldn't nail - it was probably the rum but maybe the combination with one of the other barrels too, not really sure but I think it also tasted it more distinctly in Sigil 3, the only other Sigil I've had. It may be distinctive to the Sigil line, either way, I've got a Sigil VIII on deck, and a Sigil IX waiting for me in Maine to help make that distinction. Cheers!

PS. I had the Sigil VIII and really enjoyed that one so I think my review might be a little off...