The Stout - Barrel Aged - Almond Cookie
Western Collective

16oz can at share. Black pour with a thin beige head. Almonds in the aroma, roasty malts, vanilla, bourbon. tase is more of the coolie flavors with the rich roarty grains and bourbon barrel bring it all together.

couple of important critiques here of a pretty okay beer. the first is the price, for the love of god, 15 bucks a can?! you have got to be kidding me, the best of the best dont charge that, and this is leagues away from those guys, brutal. its definitely a sharer, this is so sweet, thick, and boozy that its hard to drink more than a few ounces of. its slick and sticky thick, shiny and without much head. i get coconut in front of everything else in nose and taste, weird because they dont claim any. this has a really artificial vibe to it in my opinion, nobody has ever baked an almond cookie this pungent, seems forced, but that has kind of been their thing lately. almond extract in a sort of amaretto way, overdosed but not unpleasant. whats unpleasant is all the residual sugar, the way i cant get the taste off my tongue at the end of each sip, and the way the alcohol is harsh and burns all the way down. there are nice chocolate and barrel notes to this, hersheys syrup and a shot from the mid shelf, but its almost perfume with the almond and vanilla, that and some black spray paint. heavily flavored burps for ages, tons and tons of sticky body, and just not an objectively great beer. for six or even seven bucks a pop i think it would be worth trying, but at this price you are a fool to pick one up. completely obliterated a decent base here, which i dug quite a lot without added stuff, with this level of adjuncts. are these guys in freefall or what right now?!