 Welcome to this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm trying a beer that's actually one that was done specially for a the rare beer the month club that I'm a part of which I would highly recommend it's through beer month club comm. It's their rare version They are great with customer service Just to let you know if you have any sort of issues They do everything they can to take care of that on top of that they put out some really good beers They do a lot of Belgian style. So if you're not into Belgians, there is that kind of drawback, but they have a lot of like special Offers that happen throughout months that are definitely worth it really cool things and this beer was actually part of one of the special offers That I got few extra bottles of so I was very interested to check this out This is by grand Teton brewing out of Victor, Idaho It's maybe the first time I'm having a beer from Idaho haven't had a grand Teton before But yeah, this was especially done for the rare beer the month club, which is pretty cool It's a 2014 vintage was just on a few months ago It's a Belgian style ale with spices, but then also rum barrel aged Which I haven't had a whole lot of beers that are rum barrel aged So I've been wanting to try more and more and more so I'm thinking the you know the backdrop of the Belgian style with the rum on top of it could be very nice It's 8.5% alcohol by volume Kind of surprised by that fact because I would think you know when you're rum barrel aging something It's probably gonna pick up a lot more alcohol to it, but hey, you know, so you can see it's grand Teton I mean it's mountains So, you know nothing all that special with the label, but hopefully it is a special tasting beer Pour this in I did get a little bit of a whiff of like spirits as soon as I opened it up you know that kind of like Liquor scent All right, so it's a nice it's a very deep color It's like a reddish brownish coloration very deep, but it is also filtered. I can see through it A little bit hazy just because of the coloration Oh I can definitely smell First of all the rum in there and that kind of sweetness that rum imparts on beers And it gives it like in this extra kind of like caramely note as well But then I immediately start getting that kind of Belgian yeast Sent to it with a little bit of like banana a little coriander stuff like that some weediness But that rum you can definitely smell the rum and it's upfront every time you take a whiff It smells pretty nice Whoo, a little bit of like a Kind of a cherry note in there as well, which is really interesting Little sourish Smelling the more I sniff on it too, which probably has to do with the spices kind of coming together Not sure what spices are in it actually kind of oddly enough has a little bit of kind of like a tart tinge at the end of it and I'm definitely tasting like it's kind of like a dark Belgian style Definitely get the rum flavor, which is sweetening it up and Giving it kind of like a little bit of like a spice note, you know Maybe like a little cinnamony that caramely aspect is in there as well It's kind of a little lemony that tartness on the end little lemony and it finishes with with not a lot But a little bit of that kind of like Likour burn, you know the rum coming through in it 8.5% alcohol it probably tastes about that except for that little bit of a burn at the end. It's maybe Would make you think closer like nine or ten But it's interesting because When you when you're taking sips your initial feel is there's no alcohol almost in this like it's very low So then if you just kind of like sit Then you start to get a little bit of that burn at the end It's kind of drinking like it's two separate beers. Honestly, it's it's two experiences It's that kind of a little bit of like a sour ish Belgian ale at first with some spice to it And then that switches over to like the caramely notes the aspects of like the the wood It was barrel-aged in and then you know the finish with the rum with that kind of burn So it's kind of two things. I'm not Extremely big on it. It what I will say it's not as pleasing as I was hoping it would be But it's definitely interesting and I would say definitely worth a try It's not a bad beer by any stretch of the imagination. It is solid So that would be my recommendation if you liked some of the aspects you heard then you should check that out Take them one more step Yeah, there's definitely kind of like this The sourness to it, which I don't know if that was intentional or not But interesting beer definitely like I said the rare beer of the month club through beer month club.com is really good So everybody check that out, but more importantly go grab yourself an awesome beer to try and thanks for checking this out