Black Watch - Bourbon Barrel-Aged
Highland Brewing
- From:
- Highland Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.44 | pDev: 2.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 31, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The 2025 Barrel-Aged Black Watch is especially meaningful. We aged it in bourbon barrels from Cooks Mill Original American Whiskey, personally sourced by our founder, Oscar Wong. At 11% ABV, it’s bold, warming, and beautifully balanced with vanilla, oak, and spice.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CarolinaCardinals from North Carolina
4.21/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Picked up a 500 ml bottle from the Charlotte Road main campus 12-12-25 for $22.00. Wife was astounded i paid that much for a beer. 2025 bottling consumed 2-17-26. Wine fridge chilled since purchase.
Beer poured black with a nice tan head.
Nose has notes of roasted malts, cocoa, and vanilla.
Taste is a medium roasted malt base that melds very nicely with the cocoa addition. Getting some vanilla in post sip aspirations. Barrel is warming post sip and balances just enough to leave a sweet milk stout finish that is appropriate.
Mouthfeel has been thinned out with time in the barrel; medium bodied and smooth.
Overall, this was fun to try once but the base beer is slightly better in terms of viscosity.
Feb 17, 2026Beer poured black with a nice tan head.
Nose has notes of roasted malts, cocoa, and vanilla.
Taste is a medium roasted malt base that melds very nicely with the cocoa addition. Getting some vanilla in post sip aspirations. Barrel is warming post sip and balances just enough to leave a sweet milk stout finish that is appropriate.
Mouthfeel has been thinned out with time in the barrel; medium bodied and smooth.
Overall, this was fun to try once but the base beer is slightly better in terms of viscosity.
Rated by pathman from Ohio
4.5/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3/24/19 crowler @ Asheville home
Mar 24, 2019
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