Bakery Boyz
Kros Strain Brewing

Kros Strain Bakery Boyz Bourbon/Rum BA Imperial Stout, 13% ABV. Aged in four different bourbon barrels and one rum barrel. Pours black and thick with a ring of bubbles. Nose is bourbon, rum, vanilla, and coconut. Taste follows, moderately sweet, slightly bitter, good booze burn. Outstanding mouthfeel, overall world class+. The best beer I've ever had.

No canning date (released on 10/23/20, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 7/22/21

Pours a viscous, motor-oil black body followed by a stream of sparse effervescence plodding to the surface to form a brief, wispy veil of dark mocha foam before fading almost immediately; a thin ring of collar is what remains, while decent legs supplant lacing trickling down the walls of the glass.

Aromas of boozy rum fade into waves of burnt brownie crust, dense dark chocolate, and cake batter upfront, accentuated over the middle with a deftly placed, freshly toasted coconut and softer vanilla bean into the back end of the bouquet; brown sugar chars to reveal whiskey-tinged oak and the sweetness of vanilla pudding to close.

Taste offers a deeper milk chocolate base upfront, seeing toasted coconut over the mid-palate to a mild bourbon and charred oak presence on the back end, culminating in a fading coconut brownie and vanilla custard amalgam on the finish.

Mouthfeel presents a full body, slick and viscous in consistency while glossing over a minimal carbonation; oily textures contribute a deft weight yet avoid any sense of bittering or char over the mid-palate, after which a sticky back end, though decidedly shy of syrupy proceeds into a subtly building warmth and boozy strike on finish.

At face value, a weighty dessert stout, densely textured with minimal barrel, slick, and markedly sweet; adjuncts hint at a more restrained composure as it warms, though, leaving a final impression more well-moderated than one might initially expect.

 

A pastry stout with 200 lbs of coconut, 2 lbs of vanilla, 4 whiskey barrels, and a rum barrel combine for mounds upon mounds of flavor!