Blended With Lumber #6
Timber Ales

Can from Bird Girl. Excellent BAIS. Poured into my Bird Girl snifter at 60degreesF. Pours an exceptional deep dark brown body with accents of rich dark orange and ruby to light. Huge creamy 2-3 inch dark rich caramel mocha tan creamy head. But then and showed up with quick dissipation and a pencil point thin halo. Nose is robust full of milk chocolate, fudge and dark fruits. Soft touches of char, molasses, oak and vanilla bean. Taste explodes with both the big chocolate with more noticeable strains of coffee, toffee and coconut. Very complex layers of these adjuncts elevate the base malts and the chocolate. Body is very smooth and silky. Nothing syrupy or distracting.
One of the best more interesting big chocolate stairs I’ve had. Highly pleasant sipper. The 1/3 barrel aged component, the coconut and coffee conditioning serve more as wonderful enhancements to a great Imperial Stout. So wish I’d bought more. Outstanding.

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing nearly opaque black in the glass with a quarter finger milk chocolate head with good retention and nice lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, fudge and dark chocolate, mild vanilla and coconut and a hint of coffee. Flavor is dark toasted malt with light char, milk and dark chocolate, vanilla, coconut and a hint of whiskey and coffee. Medium bodied with moderate, silky mouthfeel. A splendid rich and thick stout with lots of chocolate character. The chocolate is much like a truffle in flavor. The base malt is full flavored. Coconut is present, but somewhat subdued. The barrel character barely peeks out of the deep chocolate malt flavor; the same with the coffee. The flavor is full enough that the latter are not needed except as light hints anyway. Excellent and one of the best of this stellar series of stouts.

12 ounce can, X 4 Q stamped on the bottom so no idea if that's supposed to be a date code or not. Big thanks to Brtualtruth for this! Served in a snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with not quite an inch tan head. Head retention and lacing are both good. I like the aroma, the brew smells like chocolate, coconut, vanilla, roasted malt, coffee and some bourbon. Taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but with the addition of some oak, dark bread and burnt/charred malt flavors. Pretty tasty, but the barrel character isn't as strong as I would have liked in the taste and aroma but that's just a minor complaint. Mouthfeel/body is full, it's rich and creamy with a moderate amount of carbonation. I liked this one a lot, would like to try this one again sometime!

 

Blackest black I have ever seen in a beer! Head was thick and dark tan to chocolate in color. Nose is slight coffee and cocoa. Flavors are creamy chocolate, coffee and hints of coconut. VERY easy drinking stout, dangerously easy! Cannot feel the warmth that should be hitting from the ABV.

The pour is jet black with a tan & frothy head of foam. The taste is bourbon whiskey barrel, dark roasted coffee, & coconut. Moreover, the 13.4% drinks more like a 10% beer. Overall, this was a decadent stout. Cheers! A (World Class)

This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like milk chocolate, with vanilla cream, some light roast, and a touch of oak.

This is designed to be a lighter barrel aged experience, as it’s a blend of old and fresh stout, but I still kind of wish this was more barrel forward, as the milk chocolatey base and addition of sweet vanilla creamy notes does take this to a sweeter place than Timber usually does.

This is medium bodied, sweet, and silky, with very little booziness.

This was definitely tasty, but I’ve preferred other Timber beers more.

From the 12 oz can in a snifter. This solid imperial pours a murky blackish
brown with a moderate had of brown foam that settles to a thin ring and layer
with light lacing. Nose of dark chocolate, subtle coffee, vanilla, char, brulee,
and subtle bourbon dashed with coconut cream. Flavors follow the nose with subtle bourbon,
mellow oak, rich vanilla, coconut, cream, subtle char, sweet brulee, coffee, and dark cocoa.
Mouth feel is full, smooth, slick, coating, lightly warming, and finishing on the sweet
side with a bitter malt note.

Overall, not cloying but near the verge. Good dessert style brew with muted bourbon
more akin to bourbon and chocolate balls.

Cheers

Rich. deep. dark chocolate color liquid with a very short dark brown sugar head. Oily lace on the glass. A hint of whiskey, mostly coffee and only a trace of coconut.feels like 40w oil. Seems quite heavy. I think it's one and done.

 

 

Opaque black as tar color with a respectable and lasting tan head. The aroma is coconut, vanilla, bourbon, cocoa, espresso and molasses, with hints of figs and raisins, wow.
The taste is bourbon, molasses, dark chocolate, vanilla, caramel, coconut, espresso, plums and figs, every sip seems to bring up something new, rich, sweet, mild bitterness.
The body is full, almost chewable, and oily smooth, moderate carbonation, ABV is well hidden and dangerously drinkable. Altogether, this is a magnificent stout, great as an after dinner dessert sipper, or a cold weather warmer, sitting by a fire, outstanding.

Poured at fridge temp. Pours a super thick black with a solid inch of dark brown head. The nose is glorious. Tons of chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, and mocha. A nice spice.

The taste is great. Mild coffee, vanilla, coconut, dark malts, cocoa powder, oak, walnuts, bourbon, light graham cracker, burnt wood, and light cherries. Super thick.

Full bodied with an aftertaste of dark fruit, chocolate, and bourbon.

Dense, viscous pour, near-black color and opaque; incredibly thick, dense, brown head, tightly spongy texture; very long-lasting. Rich milk chocolate and chocolate fudge aroma; notes of cinnamon. A most tasty blend of German chocolate cake and fudge undercut with a light bourbon presence; coconut and vanilla aspects; sweet but not cloying. Incredible density and chewiness to the beer; thick and sticky on the palate; heavy.

Good lord, but this is one incredible barrel aged blended imperial stout. Massive aptly describes nearly every aspect of the beast. The real beauty is that nothing comes across as overpowering or unbalanced given the inherent nature of this beer. A glorious monster of a beer!

ABV: 13.4%; pouring temperature: 47.8 °F; canning info: X 4 Q (I'm guessing 24 4 17)
Source: local purchase (Coaltrain Fine Wine, Craft Beer & Spirits)

Poured from a 12oz can into a Perennial SdC tumbler. Pours a thick oily black with a thin mocha borek foam cap. Chocolate, coconut, coffee and even some vanilla on the nose. Taste leans more to the bitter coffee and sweet coconut and lacks some of the complexity of the nose. It’s still very tasty with a medium-full mouthfeel. Solid blended imperial stout.

Perfect pour. Color is extremely dark brown/black. Head was one of the best I have ever seen. Thick rich brown, heavy and slowly dissipated.

Great nose.

Delicious. Great texture, heavy, but not too thick. ABV unnoticeable.

This beer is outstanding. Not quite as thick as some of the others from Timber Ales, but I actually prefer this more.

And this version was very reasonably priced!

Bold, barreled and brawny, Timber Ales unleashes their lumber series number six that spends extended time in Willett barrels and finishes with coconut and coffee.

Jet black and vicious as tar, Blended with Lumber #6 floats a dainty creme tan froth and an elevated aroma of espresso, cocoa, bourbon and coconut before coating the tongue with blackstrap molasses, bittersweet chocolate and pleasantly burnt coconut for extra measure.

Its bold sweetness commands the taste here after and rolls in complementary flavors of chocolate covered espresso beans, burnt coconut, vanilla, caramel, peppery booze and a smoky char that seems Turkish or Greek in its earthen coffee roast.

Full bodied, pastry-like and trending off-cloying, the heavy stout flirts with pastry tendencies but also keeps a traditional stout alive with immense char and warming bourbon to finish.

12 ounce can - $7.50 at Woodstock Beer Market in Woodstock, Georgia.

Appearance: Pours an obsidian black body with a surge of surprisingly lofty, creamy-looking, mocha-toned head.

Smell: All throughout a creamy blackened barley, matte black espresso, stalwart barrels, (very) dark chocolate is a rippling airy waft of raw alcohol and some smaller hints of coconut (Mounds bar-esque in the nose) though it has an overall implied sense of sweetness to it.

Taste: A fairly big initial sweetness, though mollified a bit by its tongue-coating creaminess and fairly warming alcohol presence, though, as it warms, this effect is lessened giving you an ever sweet beer for good or ill. Rich chocolate fudge, vanilla frosting, chiefly, though there is some stout coffee, a little bourbon showing. Dark fruitiness. For me, it's never bursting like a ruptured appendix with coconut flavor, which is fine for me, as it is simply just an ever-present, ever-pleasant background element. Very dessert-like on the tongue with the booze element just staring you down from the edge of the dark, scary forest.

Mouthfeel: Full-bodied. Medium carbonation. Very creamy mouthfeel akin to melty chocolate ice cream.

Overall: As I provided the picture for the site, the entirety of the cans available for purchase were pretty splotchy with stray stout splatter. Nothing that procurement of a post-fill rinsing tunnel can't remedy, I'm sure, Timber Ales. Anyway, there's much good here - solid base beer if a tad sweet, good look and feel, aged without presenting an unsavory soy-like oxidative tones from sloppy racking, and though the raunchy alcoholic hotness is ready to eviscerate you, your wife, your children and all your pets, it is somehow just barely contained, like the velociraptors in that first Jurassic Park flick until Wayne Knight's character disabled the fences.