Double Barrel Aged Bombs Over Barley (2025)
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Sampling a cellar temp 250 ml bottle of this beer. Picked up as part of my bottle society stash. The beer pours a rich mahogany color with minimal , yet dense khaki colored head. This foam sticks around as a sturdy edging throughout the entire sampling.
Aroma on this beer is pleasant with toffee and some light vanilla giving way to bourbon and some fusol peppery booze when I take a really deep sniff. No hint of any hop aromas on this beer.
First sip reveals a medium to thick body with sticky texture that coats my palate with each sip. very minimal and fairly gentle carbonation. Definitely feels like a sipping beer.
Flavor is caramel and toffee with a little butterscotch mixed in, not diacetyl more like a werthers hard candy. Fairly sweet note here and some brown sugar and bourbon notes follow, then a pretty good hit of warming peppery booze. The heat lingers long after each swallow. Never any hop character on the flavor profile either.
This is a pretty boozy beer with tasty flavor on the sweeter end of the spectrum. Glad to have tried this and would very happily open and drink another bottle if given the opportunity.

This one pours a dark brown-ish color, with a small head, and basically no lacing.

This has very deep and complex barrel notes on the nose – vanilla, caramel, spicy oak, and licorice, with additional notes of toffee, brown sugar, black cherry, and raisin.

This is just as good, if not better, than the first release of Double Barrel Bombs Over Barley. 25 months in barrels really shows here – with dark, deep notes of vanilla, charred oak, burnt sugar/marshmallow, licorice, and leather. There’s more crowd pleasing notes of honey, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, and a touch of chocolate, too.

This is medium bodied, and really not that boozy for 17.2%, with a very nice drinkability.

Bombs over Barley is an outstanding series, and this is just about the apex of it.

 

 

 

Toffee, molasses, and brown sugar, dark red cherries, raisin bread, and a spicy bourbon barrel boozy nose on this one! Taste follows with some toffee and bran cereal malts upfront, and then a honeyed, bourbon barrel boozy finish. As it warms, however, a pronounced bitterness shows up on the backend of the swallow..this lingers a bit and interferes with the toffee/caramel goodness and the barrels. It almost leans more American Barleywine than English...I needed a little more sweetness to balance it out. Still pretty good, but not as well put together as I was expecting.