Death Star 2
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle and poured into my snifter. Beer was bottled on 4/13/2022, so pretty spot on 2 years ago. Only 660 bottles were made, cool!
The beer pours a rich cola brown and rests slightly darker in the glass with no light passing through. A fizzy beige head foams up about .5 cm and fades to a sturdy edge layer soon after the pour.
Aroma is molasses, leather, brown sugar, some rich brown liquor note and I keep sniffing some earthy, not sweet cinnamon. No hop notes, and no fusol booze on this one. Pretty appealing aroma.
First sip reveals a medium body with pretty smooth texture, a little surprised its not stickier. Carbonation is very fine and tingly, beer drinks easier than I expected with the 13.6%.
Flavor is similar to the nose with some brown sugar and molasses notes, some sweeter cognac and brown liquor quality and some fudge covered raisin. Again, no hops to be found and good dose of warming booze on the swallow. But there isnt any accompanying black pepper bite, so the beer still drinks surprisingly easy. Im enjoying the complexity and depth of this beer and its hidden booziness. Very nice blended beer, glad to have picked up one of these bottles!

 

This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like caramel, fruit leather, oak, milk chocolate, roasted malt, toffee, and coffee.

This is pretty wonderful – the cognac barrel is all over this one, adding fruit leather, honey, even some maple, maybe and lots of oak. There’s lots of chocolate, sweet caramel, some coffee, and vanilla, too.

This is medium bodied, super creamy and rich, with not much booziness.

This is very well integrated blend, the two beers go well together.