Extended Age Dickel's Cabin
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle poured into my snifter. Beer was bottled on 5/20/2024, picked up at the brewery in August 2025, and has been in my cellar since then.
The beer pours a rich mahogany color with creamy dense beige head of 1.5 cm. This foam slowly fades to a sturdy surface covering that hangs around the beer for most of the sampling. Dense lattice forms from swirls and sips.
Aroma is rich and malty with brown sugar, toffee, raisins, and a good bit of bourbon. I swear I get some cinnamon here too. No hop character and not fusol or peppery. I like the nose on this one.
First sip reveals a medium body with very fine and tingly carbonation. Pretty smooth texture with little sticky coating for such a large ABV beer.
Flavor starts with some brown sugar and toffee with hints of pipe tobacco and some plum and then a punch of bourbon right in my jaw. This is followed by black pepper bite and some serious warming on the swallow. Warmth lingers in my belly too. Woo! A bit of a bruiser here! No hop character anywhere.
Definitely gonna sip this one for a bit, but very excited for the next hour or so! Would gladly drink this again!

Brown sugar malty, raisin bran cereal, and a prominent brown liquor/bourbon barrel boozy nose on this one! Taste follows with a caramel and dark fruit, oak and bourbon barrel boozy finish. This is good Lyfe! Just needed to be a touch sweeter upfront to balance out the barrel.

It pours a muddy brown kinda molasses color with no appreciable head but a bead of fine bubbles and an island does form. The fine bubbles actually cling hard and cascade slowly back to the surface.

The aroma is 100% bourbon-forward - not alcohol hot, just a smooth smell of sweet bourbon. Until you stick your nose in the glass...Toffee and molasses follow, a nice level of vanilla and a hint of dark fruit that reads raisin. I'll cop out here and just say this smells absolutely delicious. I mean you can smell the bourbon from across the room, but it is still part of the whole. It's fabulous.

I could say the same with the taste. There is no doubt this beer lived in some wicked good bourbon barrels. Overall it is fairly sweet. The bourbon is the star here - everybody else is part of the supporting cast. Vanilla plays more in the taste. Toffee and molasses, brown sugar, caramel. The fruit is also more rounded heading into the fig and date realm. There's just a hint of bitterness that tames the sweetness nicely. Talking a lot about the bourbon but I wouldn't say it's one dimensional at all. The co-stars are more than adequate.

Medium body, tiny bubbles and a little prickly on the carbonation. A tad bit sticky. Actually finishes dry. It is quite pleasantly warming. Although it is very bourbon-forward and know it's high ABV, there's no sense of the alcohol being out of bounds.

This is mellow, elegant, and luxurious. It screams for a Macanudo and crackling fireplace. I'm guessing the extra months in the barrel amped up the bourbon presence yet its somehow blended into the overall flavor. Outstadning!