 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm going to do a brewery that I've done quite a few beers from already, but it's always exciting always fun in my opinion And that is the brewery out of Orange County or specifically Placentia, California Sometimes I get tripped up on that word placentia if I'm saying it right even but anyway It is one of their special versions of their mash, which is their English style barley wine It's the mash and vanilla, which is their English style barley wine aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla Is it specifically no not vanilla beans just vanilla, and it's 13.3% alcohol by vine. Obviously the same classy looking Label that we're used to from the brewery Nothing too different there Just coloration It's a little different that respect These things give me a little bit of trouble from time to time, which is kind of annoying There we go. Got it took took me less time than normal to get that so Pour this sucker You pretty much guess what it's gonna look like brown cloudy ish All right, just spinning around for you folks Mash and vanilla So yep brown cloudy, maybe a little bit of a reddish hue like slight reddish hue to it You probably can't see it on the video though because it's so slight Nice little bit of a tannish head to it Yeah Looks like a barley one. Oh a lot of bourbon a lot of astringency on there a lot of bourbon You can smell the higher ABV Smells like it's up there lots and lots and lots of like a caramel brown sugar That sweet bourbon lots of bourbon lots of nice bourbon in there a little bit of an oakiness Like woody character from the barrel and that vanilla is there the vanilla is more soft Than I thought maybe it would be but it's nice like all these All these notes just kind of fold into one each one another Jesus. I work today It's been a long day. So that's why I need this But yeah, that smells so good. So good. It's smooth It's almost like You know almost it really makes me want to smore, you know It almost comes off with the vanilla a tad bit marshmallowy in the flavor like right off the bat But you get a lot of that nice bourbon sweetness get a little bit of that barrel character Like the woodiness that is definitely taste that sweet Like caramel sweet brown sugar that you're typically gonna get with barley wines and You know that vanilla. It's it's coming off marshmallowy to me. Like I said Warming my face immediately just from one sip because yes, it is high ABV It doesn't quite taste like 13.3 though. It's so smooth And that's the thing I love about the brewery with all their high ABV beers They're so so so smooth whenever they do them and it's just it's hard to really taste that full High alcohol, you know, like I said, it doesn't taste like 13.3. That's just because the flavors are so good They're so they're so intense. They're so well Folded together and it just comes off smooth. There's nothing that's Jabbing you like a like a knife on your taste buds, which with a beer like this you would assume might be the alcohol Not happening. It's very smooth. It's sweet. It's it's like a dessert. It's a great dessert I want smores man You never disappoint especially not with your high ABV beers the brewery. So mash and vanilla. I like it quite a bit I thought I would I did I'm excited because we're gonna have more variants coming out They're gonna have a mash and coconut at some point and I know another point. They're gonna have mash and French toast Which sounds very interesting. So anyway, everybody. Thanks for checking this out If you can get a hold of this mash or no get a hold of it. It's very tasty, especially if you're a Barrel-aged person a vanilla person a barley wine person. So anyway, everybody. Thanks for checking out once again Go ahead and find yourself an awesome beer and also keep it brutal. Thanks