Pours your standard golden orange color. Smell has that classic bourbon character, oak, caramel, vanilla, a bit of baking spice, cinnamon, and the like. Taste hits that same standard profile, caramel, oak, vanilla, a little brown sugar, molasses, cacao, some of that baking spice rounding things out. Mouthfeel is pretty good for the lowish proof, not big and burly, but not thin at all either, just a really nice balance. Overall, this is great. Not exactly sure about the hype and definitely not worth secondary, but worth the flier at this bar… Beer Nerd Musings - One of last year’s 2021 Bourbon County Reserve variants was aged in Blanton’s barrels and it was fantastic - It had a distinct brownie batter, fudge, richer and more intense character than regular. I haven’t had a ton of other Blanton’s barrel aged beers, but the ones I have had tend towards that same fudgey character, which is interesting.