Double Barrel Aged Death Star 4
Barreled Souls Brewing Company

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From:
Barreled Souls Brewing Company
 
Maine, United States
Style:
American Strong Ale
ABV:
16.1%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
4.04 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
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Active
Rated:
Oct 06, 2025
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Oct 06, 2025
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This is a blend of 30% experimental barleywine, 26% Buckwheat base, 20% Honeypot, 10% Dark Matter, 10% Bombs, 4% Blonde on Blonde aged in apple brandy, then Bardstown Red Wine-finished Bourbon for a total of 32 months and 15 days.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.04/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
This one pours a fairly dark-ish brown tints, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like dark chocolate, rye bread, pumpernickel, caramel, nuttiness, roasted malt, boozy heat, dried fruit, and tobacco.

Red wine finished bourbon barrels and apple brandy barrels are certainly unique barrels, but they the overall effect sort of winds itself together in a new flavor, rather than feeling distinctly like either spirit. There’s a really dark, herbal, and spicy bitterness here, slightly boozy, and sort of just gnarly. There’s lots of chocolate, some definite caramel, a sort of like burnt peanut flavor, some roast, and a smoky tobacco like finish.

This is medium bodied, a little boozy but not ridiculously so, with a nice little sippability.

I’ve had some better Death Star variants, but this was still very fun to try.
Oct 06, 2025