Stay Puft - Stagg Jr. Barrel Aged
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle poured into my snifter. Bottled Date of 5/01/2023. Aged in Stagg Jr Bourbon barrels for 9 months and 16 days.
Picked up at the brewery in the past and has been in my cellar for quite a while since then. The beer pours a rich cola brown and rests darker in my glass.
A dense creamy beige head of 1.5 cm foams up and slowly fades to a sturdy edge layer that sticks around for the entire sampling. A wispy island of foam rests in the center of my glass. Some very scattered lattice occurs when I swirl the glass or take a sip.
Aroma is chocolate milk, hints of roasted malts, a bit of vanilla, and a good dose of bourbon. Not really fusol or boozy hot and there is no evidence that hops were used in the making of this beer.
First sip reveals a medium body with fine tingly carbonation. Texture is smooth and the beer drinks easy, no real stickiness to it. I do get some warming on this swallow of each sip, and this warming lingers in my belly.
Flavor is pretty much what the nose advertised with sweet chocolate and vanilla mixing and then yielding to some bourbon notes and the previously mentioned warming carries the finish. No hop character anywhere.
I am enjoying this one and am surprised at how much the alcohol is hitting me for "only" 13.9% ABV. Gonna finish this glass slowly. WOuld gladly drink this again.

Poured on tap at the brewery. Pours black as night. The nose is phenomenal. Vanilla for days. Some barrel comes through a lot on the nose as well. Wow. The taste is fantastic. Toffee, chocolate, marshmallow, bourbon, graham cracker, oak and black licorice. Super thick. Amazing stout.

 

 

 

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

This smells like milk chocolate, sticky marshmallows, coffee, and bourbon.

Barreled Souls generally doesn’t fully lean into the pastry arena, and this furthers that thought for me. The marshmallow is certainly there, but it’s a supporting character. The barrel is quite strong, with a tobacco and leather vibe that gives this a wonderful smoked marshmallow campfire vibe. There’s lots of chocolate, too.

This is medium bodied, slightly boozy, but still pretty drinkable.

I’ve drank a lot of Barreled Souls in my time, but this is surprisingly my first barrel aged Stay Puft. I definitely want to try more.