Whiskey Rebellion
Warped Wing Brewing Company

12.7 FLUID OUNCE bottle
Served in a snifter
2025
11.2%

This beer pours black and is topped with an inch of fleeting, tan head that leaves little lacing.

Chocolate and anise are the first two aromas I receive. A deeper dive yields some vanilla and caramel.

All the flavors from the smell are there with the addition of oak in the flavor. Chocolate and anise lead the way. Caramel flavor is subtle. Oak dominates the back end and aftertaste.

Fuller bodied with an oily, viscous mouthfeel

It seems to get a little boozy at the end of the bottle, not that there's anything wrong with that. Well executed barrel aged stout.

 

2021 release. Bottle pour on draught at the brewery. It was served in a stemless stout glass. I let it set for about 15 minutes but it was nonetheless colder than I would drink it at home. The color is nearly ink black. The modest, light mocha head dissipated rapidly leaving a small ring around the edge of the glass. Its smell is robust with roasted malt, dark chocolate, a whiff of freshly-brewed coffee, and a big dark fruit presence. There is also bourbon on the nose but it doesn't overpower the other aromas. When sipped the dark fruit esters really pop. There is a strong taste of black cherry, along with rich dark chocolate. There are also notes of coffee and char. While the bourbon compliments the other flavors without distracting, you can feel its effect. This bottle is 3 years old but still quite boozy. It has a great mouth feel - nicely viscous and oily with lite carbonation, and if anything it drinks above its 11.2% ABV. Overall, this is my first experience with Whiskey Rebellion and I really enjoyed it. I bought bottles of the 2020 and 2023 releases and look forward to drinking them.

ABV is 11.2% per the bottle

 

Single botte from the brewery.

12 oz bottle, poured into a Spiegelau barrel-aged snifter at ~40 degrees F.

L: Pours your typical stout inky black, and forms virtually no head that vanishes nigh instantly.

S: Quite barrelly, with the caramel, oak, and vanilla booze one would expect from a BA stout. Not much underlies the barrel notes, at least while the beer is cold.

T: As per the nose, at least while cold, this is dominated by the barrel notes. It drinks as a decent bourbon with a malt underlay. As it warms, some earthy loam and blackstrap appear beneath the barrel notes.

F: Full bodied and thick, as one wants from a stout.

O: As BA RISes go, fairly pedestrian, but serviceable.

A - Black pour with light, thin caramel colored lacing resting on top. Carbonation is low to none.

S - Light chocolate, chocolate roast, whiskey/Bourbon, some dry oak, toasted cocoa, and light char.

T - Whiskey, oak, and char are up front and foremost in this beer. After the initial palate slam of booziness roasted cocoa starts to settle in on the finish (with some very light cherry buried in there) and leaves a lingering and pleasant chocolate/whiskey finish.

M - Big body that silky soft on the palate, and warming in the back of throat with a dry finish on the back of the tongue while the rest of the mouth is wet.

O - This is a really nice barrel aged Imperial Stout. Recommended.

12 oz bottle, vintage 2019, poured into a snifter at 55 degrees F:
L - dark dark coffee with a dark hazelnut head that quickly evaporated
S - bourbon, coffee, molasses, roasted malt
T - bourbon, coffee, molasses, chocolate, roasted malt wonderfully blended
F - thick mouthfeel with almost no carbonation
O - great beer, one of the best I've had from WW and I love this brewery!

 

Poured into a 16 oz Snulip glass vintage 2020. Pours near pitch black with a 2 finger mocha head that leaves thick streaks of lace, with great retention. 4.5

Aroma oaked vanilla, dark chocolate, char, back strap molasses, leather, dark fruit, and whiskey. 4.25

Taste follows woody vanilla, dark chocolate, char, molasses, leather, and the whiskey is rather aggressive but still really nice. 4.25

Mouthfeel above average, maybe a tad dry, gentle carbonation, and at 11% it is a slow sipper and still very approachable. 4.25

Overall this is a really fine Imperial Stout, I am really digging this one. Well made. Thanks jzeilinger for this boozy treat. 4.25

 

Look - great black thick with a great tan head and lacing
Smell - roasty caramel woody
Taste - boozy caramel vanilla and woody
Feel - pretty full with a medium light carb
Overall - pretty good standard BBA stout

 

 

 

Dark black, no head.
Strong aroma of booze. Oak and vanilla. A little chocolate.
Bourbon, vanilla, chocolate.
A little more alcohol than I wanted, but still an enjoyable beer to drink.