 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break Today, I'm doing a beer that I don't think I've done at all for the brutal battle beer breaks any I mean any beer from this brewery I know we've had it on the regular show a few times, but The victory brewing out of Downingtown, Pennsylvania now I had not seen any Barrel-aged stuff from victory and tell this beer that I saw on the shelf picked it up for Rebecca just to you know find a way to get around my limitation on buying beers and It is actually something she should like but in any any rate it is the Java cask It's a bourbon barrel-aged coffee stout and it is 14.3 percent alcohol by volume High so I'm anticipating that I'll be able to perceive a lot of that So let's see how long it takes me to get the cork and cage off because sometimes That takes forever Hopefully this one cooperates Nope Such a pain in the ass these things. I usually do find that the grasping upside-down method and then twisting works pretty well in this case This cork is just like it's in there, so That's not even helping I'm gonna get it though It's coming Now this Basses I want it to Is it fun just watching me struggle with this? Because it's not fun to struggle Jesus Christ victory Can you just That's the whole video. I'm just gonna struggle with this. I won't even try the beer. Jesus Christ something I don't know what some people call this thing, but I Call it and have called it for a long time a snafler and my family Rebecca contends that that's not actually a word Well, not even the snafler helps. I cannot Life of me. Oh wait. Here we go. Now. I'm just pushing it back and forth This is the officially like the worst Brutal battle beer break Thanks victory jamming the shit out of your corks Don't need this right now. So All right It's off. I feel like I'm probably sweating at this point Part of the label is coming off now So, all right, let's pour this thing that was a lot of work So I hope this is really good because god damn those a lot of work All right Whoo, as you can imagine it looks like a stout It's got a nice like tan head to it very present with the way that I poured it Looks like it's gots coming down slowly on the it on the edges So as people say it has legs as soon as I pop that cork out Get a lot a lot a lot of alcohol going into my nose and some sweet Notes like that bourbon like the sweet bourbon aspect and some vanilla caramel stuff like that Oh a lot of coffee actually a lot more coffee than I was expecting to get out of this because I felt like With the amount of bourbon that was just coming right out of the out of the bottle and that ABV that's extremely perceptible that that would kind of tamp down the coffee quite a bit, but There's a very decent coffee on there Very roasty smelling coffee With some chocolate right under it like a nice kind of milk chocolate and Obviously the the bourbon is on there. It's a woody character from the bourbon barrel Low caramel Love vanilla Smells really good. It smells really really really good And as I kept sniffing my nose is getting more used to that the higher ABV smell And it's not wasn't stinging my nostrils as much as it initially was So it smells start smelling even more harmonious as you keep sniffing nice body so my initial taste Okay, so now that I'm letting it sit. I'm really feeling the burn of that 14.3% in the back of my throat And the back of my mouth as well And it's actually starting to just like work its way down like the warm stinging is just working its way down But my first initial sip I wasn't perceiving any of the ABV. It was very smooth And just like low on the ABV a lot of coffee a lot of chocolate to it The bourbon is not as present as I thought I mean it's present It's definitely present But with how high the ABV as I was expecting that the bourbon would be really overpowering I think the coffee the level of coffee they have in this helps to bring that bourbon down to a nice level It's kind of like the coffee and then there's the chocolate and bourbon Right under it on the same level and then you can get that like oaky character under there with some caramel and some vanilla Nice beer really well put together. Like I said, it's got a decent body to it Yeah, and the thing is as I keep sipping it. I'm not I don't Because it's after the initial, you know taste. I'm not feeling the burn as much of the high ABV So I could see this being kind of a dangerous beer because as you keep sipping on it It you're perceiving the ABV less and less So you could just go faster and faster because it tastes just like a really nice like bourbon barrel-aged coffee stout dessert type of beer and that's how I like to have beers like this so Very nice victory for the very first barrel-aged offering that I've had from you Awesome excellent keep up with this kind of stuff. So Java cask people if you can still find it on shelves go do that If you're any beers by the way that you want to see me do on this or on the regular podcast Yes, we do a regular podcast podcast is brutal battle and you just find it on iTunes stitcher and Google play just search that and Website brutal battle calm, but if there are any particular beers You want us to cover either on this or on the podcast just send an email to brutal battle podcast at gmail.com But until next time thank you everyone for checking this out and go have yourself an awesome beer