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Bottle Logic Brewing

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Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Coconut & Ube Stout • 13% ABV • We're still tripping with another small-batch Tripping Animals Collaboration! We built this small-batch offering on our favorite four barrels of the Tripping Animals Imperial Stout collaboration base -- the velvetiest, most inherently chocolate-forward of the whole lot -- then finished it with mountains of fresh and toasted coconut and ube!

Warm aromas of coconut and fresh pastries melt into a rich and velvety experience on the palate, where the soft sweetness of coconut melds with the nutty vanilla flavors of ube. Its thick and silky, coconut-laden mouthfeel is beautifully balanced by the underlying bourbon, oak, and chocolate tones from the selective blend

I poured a pint glass from a pay per ounce tap at Stave and Barrel, in Fullerton, Ca. A dark, syrupy beer beer dripped into the glass with zero head. The nose was evident during the pour… deep bourbon, coconut and chocolate notes with vanilla, malt and oak… tantalizing. The taste was even better, as malt asserted itself against the chocolate boozy goodness. This tasted like Goose Island Barrel aged Stout with coconut and an intense concentration of chocolate. The mouthfeel was sticky, as the syrupy look and 13.5 ABV would suggest, but it did not detract from the decadent world class smell and taste of this outstanding brew. I was blown away, overall!