Best Barrel Aged Stout

Can I just say how much I hate the whole "/thread" thing? There, I feel better already.
OP, I like KBS and Parabola better than BCBS, still waiting to open my one bottle of BT.

 

RareR DOS. It's not even close, though I haven't had RareDOS yet.

 

I disagree with you.

 

Permission denied.

 

Green Flash Silva Stout for sure! Holy shit Silva Stout was soo good. Lucky enough to have it on-tap and had an aged bottle. They can't brew more soon enough!

KBS, BA Siberian Night, BORIS Royale, and BA Blackout Sout are up there for me too.. '12 BA Blackout Stout was boozy as hell though and needed some age..

 

Yeah.

 

Fifty Fifty Eclipse
Uncle Jacob's
KBS
Parabola
Although I hear GI Rare is a good beer

 

Brooklyn Black Ops

 

It looks like so many are the ....best.

 

BA Blackout
BCBS
BA Sexual Chocolate
ORF
CBS
KBS
Abyss
Eclipse Elijah Craig 18

 

Every vintage of GI BCBS and all of the variants (Rare/BCBVS/BCBVS/Bramble)
FW Parabola
Brooklyn Black Ops
Hoppin Frog BA BORIS
NC Old Rasputin XII

 

i have one coming in a trade so stoked

 

Favorites off the top of my head:

CBS
Bourbon County Coffee
Rum Barrel Oil of Aphrodite
Apple Brandy Barrel Beer Geek Brunch Weasel

 

My favorites in order of preference:
Bourbon barrel plead the fifth
Barrel aged Blackout Stout
Kentucky Breakfast
Eclipse EC 18
Bourbon County Stout

 

It was Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. I had it on tap at the release party and it was pretty uninspiring. However, I bought two bottles to cellar, and cracked one open about 6 months later and it was phenomenal, just super complex. It makes me excited to see how the next one will age

 

Interesting to me that you have BAPt5 and BA Blackout 1-2. I absolutely love BAPt5 for its thickness and subtle carb, whereas I found BABlackout to be woefully thin and overcarbed for a supposedly top-tier BA stout. Different strokes, I suppose. What did you like about it that made it your second favorite BA stout?

 

I stand corrected.

 

I drank the BA Blackout with almost a year on it, not sure what its like fresh but I know a few of them need time to mellow. I didn't think it was thin or overcarbed and had some great chocolate notes without being to overpowering.

 

I'm clearly in the minority here, but my favorite so far is Dark Intrigue.

 

I went to a stout tasting a couple years ago where we had almost everything mentioned in this thread (minus the Bell's stuff, Rare DOS, and Funky Buddha). I personally felt that Churchill's Finest Hour was the best. I think it was the 2011 version and it had just come out. BCBS Rare was up there. I think Eclipse PVW (pink wax) is really f-ing good and I normally think the Eclipse variations are grossly overrated. Hangar 24's Pugachev's Cobra is grossly underrated and is one of my favorites.