BBA Megamojo
Ale Architect

Appearance - Pours a jet black with three fingers of foamy mocha head.

Smell - bourbon, vanilla, oak, earthy and leafy hops, roasted malts, dark fruits, and earthy yeast.

Taste - bourbon, vanilla, and oak upfront. The earthy and leafy hops, roasted malts, and dark fruits come through next. The earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with bourbon barrel and warmth from the alcohol lingering.

Overall - A imperial stout that delivers on the bourbon barrel front. I wish there was more from the flavour seeing as the barrel takes over everything and the malts seem to be left in the dust.

473ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a perfect black with one finger of brown head that leaves some cracked frozen pond lace as it recedes.

Smells of bourbon whiskey, stewed orchard fruit, coffee grounds, caramel squares, dark bread, burning wood and some faint earthy hops.

Tastes of bourbon coffee cake, semi-sweet chocolate flakes, cold coffee, toasted caramel malt, smoky ash and more soft earthy, leafy hops.

Feels big and beefy. Full bodied with placid carbonation. Finishes dry, and oddly empty.

Verdict recommended. Big and tasty, but the disappearing flavor seems strange to me.

473ml can - a Bourbon barrel-aged version of the base 'Brut Imperial Stout'. These guys really need to source a proofreader for their label marketing blurbs.

This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of basal amber edges, and three flabby fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky brown head, which leaves some decent honeycomb pattern lace around the glass as it evenly bleeds away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, some free-range ashiness, rye whisky, a bruised dark fruitiness, and very subtle earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, medium chocolate wafers, wet char, a lessened whisky barrel woodiness, some mildly estery spice, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a hint of smoke acridity maybe putting a dent in the surface sheen at this point in the game. It finishes, well, dry, the malt somehow bottoming out.

Overall - well, we get the same effect as the original, with lots of initial flavour, here aided and abetted by the barrel character, which tails off steeply by the end, leaving kind of a vacuum around my tastebuds. But I suppose that's Brut for ya, baby!