 Thanks for tuning in for this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm going to be doing yet another brewery that I've not done anything by this is by 5050 brewing out of Truckee California, I guess that's how you say it. Anyways, this is one of their highly-tired eclipse beers, which if anyone's not familiar It's an imperial stout brewed with honey that they then take and they age in all these different oak barrels that have been used for bourbons, rye's, you know whiskeys all sorts of things I'm sorry, rye whiskeys, regular whiskeys, whatever So there's a bunch of different versions and each version has a different colored wax on top It doesn't say on the bottle what bourbon barrel or whiskey barrel was used It was aged in but it just corresponds with the color So you kind of have to look it up Which is kind of a pain the other thing is kind of a pain is the wax to get off Which is why I already took some of it off before Recording this because you guys don't want to sit here and just watch watch me appeal wax off So that's a pain. But anyway, this is I believe 11.9. Yeah, 11.9 percent alcohol by volume This one in particular is the one that's aged in four roses bourbon barrels. So pretty excited about that These are typically pretty expensive bottles This one was $35 Birthday gift for myself just so you know, I don't buy stuff like that all the time. It's just a special occasion So let's go ahead open this up and see what's working with this highly touted beer I'm hoping it's as good as The money I paid for it would it would assume it is All right There it is. You can still see that Very very dark as you would assume pretty nice head from the poor very mocha looking head to it Let me swirl that up Okay, get a lot of bourbon Get a nice but actually the bourbons not like extremely astringent when it hits your nose or like sometimes bourbon barrel aged beers can be It's kind of almost giving it like a a bourbon-y sweetness to it I also smell that honey aspect and of course I'm getting you know, what you typically get with with imperial stouts Which is you know some chocolate Some roastiness little coffee aspect to it There's a little bit of a licorice note in there very subdued though Smells nice Smells like it's not gonna taste like the 11.9% alcohol should be a little dialed back, but let's see. Oh, yeah That's nice. It's kind of like a kiss a decent kiss of that bourbon barrel aspect you get a little bit of that oakiness from the barrel You get a decent amount of that bourbon, but it's not overpowering the backbone of the beer itself Because you also are getting some nice chocolatey notes that nice roastiness with a little bit of coffee aspect to it I'm getting a tad bit of that kind of licorice-ness And I'm getting some of that honey. The body's nice, too It's not as creamy as I thought it was gonna be but the creaminess is nice where it is at a level The more I sip on it the more I'm getting those roasty notes at the end starting to build up like a little coffee aspect Nice roasted malt a little bit of like a bitter chocolate there Really nice So it's like the bourbon the bourbon's mainly hitting you up front and then just kind of like Slowly washing down and giving you those more stout malt finished notes Mmm integrated Very well the spirits in the in this beer. I see what everyone's talking about. That's a nice beer I don't know how many of those I'd be willing to buy for $35 I will admit that I kind of want to try all the different variations just to see what the differences are but Monetarily not a very good idea. So I won't be doing that. I do have one other one I have the heaven Hills written house rye Barrel aged one, but we'll see when I do that and if it's on one of these episodes are on the actual podcast or whatever But speaking of which if there are any beers out there that people want me to try and get a hold of to try either on this Or on the regular podcast you can shoot an email to brutal battle podcast at gmail.com Whatever ideas are fine. We'll let you know if it's doable or not, but we'll try anyway 50-50 brewing your eclipse beer at least the one barrel aged in four roses bourbon barrels Very nice anybody who likes that kind of stuff. You just got to decide if the money's worth it You may not be able to to spring for that you may be totally fine with springing for that, but um It's it's a commitment when you do that. Anyway, I'm gonna enjoy the rest of this Thank you everyone for checking this out and go have yourself an awesome beer. Thanks