Banana Bread at Work Dude (Smoke Wagon Bourbon)
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

This one pours a dark-ish brown color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like caramelized banana, caramel, walnuts, toffee, maple, chocolate, bourbon, and a touch of cinnamon.

I generally do not care for adjuncted barleywines, but this was exceedingly well done in a sort of stupid style. There’s not too much cinnamon, which is an automatic win, and the banana comes across as deep, caramelized, and richly toasty, with the walnuts adding a nice deep nuttiness. There’s caramel, toffee, and maple like flavors from the base barleywine, and a very nice spicey and slightly boozy bourbon note coming through.

This is medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a slight boozy warmth that doesn’t overwhelm – it’s quite drinkable for such an intense barleywine experience. It’s a slow sipper, since it’s intensely flavored, but it never really gets tiring, even solo doming the whole bottle.

This is as good as it gets for a pastrified barleywine.