Innis & Gunn release a bourbon stout

The author describes this 7.4% ale as "sessionable"...now there's a definition I can live with!

 

I do, and if it's $6.01 i'll spot you. Happy Friday.

 

Looks a Bit Thin in that Clear Bottle? Looks More like a Brown, No? I Guess I'd have to see it in person.

 

I have had it!!! It is a English style BA Stout so it is thinner than American versions for $7.99 a bottle. It is a very good $8 bottle of beer. I would pick it up and give it a whirl I thought it a very good flavor to it.

 

Their ale aged in cognac barrels was amazing. Wish hey'd bring that back.

 

I had no idea that there was an 'English style BA stout'.

 

I haven't even seen a British barrel aged stout in the shops (most of those that exist are probably brewed by 'American style breweries').

 

"The chips have been toasted and mimic the char of a Bourbon barrel, so as the beer is pumped through the oak chips, it picks up the vanillins from the wood. Bourbon Aged Stout was brewed with this new method."

It's a bourbon soaked oak chip beer, not a barrel aged stout.

 

"Leave it to the Scots to remind Americans that autumn beer releases don't always need to derive from pumpkin."

Gee, I wish an American brewer had thought of making a BBA Stout

 

Or you could buy a bottle of this when its released again:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/112/87756/

 

XV is no longer brewed I have seen XVII on sale around though.

 

$23.00 for 16 ounces is steep!!! At least that is what I paid.

 

Whatever money you are considering paying for this, would no doubt be better spent on something else.

 

It looks thin, I had an Innis & Gunn beer once, and my impression was that it tasted artificial and it was thin.

 

It's $8.99 in SoCal. I will probably pick one up someday.

 

Average at best

 

This brewer is all hype. Its just a poorly crafted brew that is all about the branding. There is no depth o the taste of their beers IMHO

 

Every beer they make is thrown into oak barrels of some sort. Gimmick, IMO. But haven't tried them yet. They are apparently switching to brown bottles in the US since they're competing with American craft and consumers tell them clear makes it skunk easily.