Pours a pretty standard amber orange color, moderate legs. Smells nice, caramel with a bit if oak and vanilla, maybe a hint if spice and leather. Taste follows ghe nose, a little caramel, oak, and vanilla with more spice than the nose, and a helping of booze. Mouthfeel is full bodied and boozy; i have a baby beer palate, but the alcohol overpowers ghe more delicate characteristics a bit. Overall, could use a little more age, but this is pretty great for what it is…
Beer Nerd Musings: Most don’t use the 7 year, but Old Fitz is a prized barrel for beer (the Pappy adjacent history, however remote it may be at this point, probably helps). Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine famously did a 2 year variant aged in Old Fitz batrels that was phenomenal and the barrels provided a pretty unique character to that beer. There’s also been Eclipse variants of this in the past that were pretty good, and Ive definitely had a few others thst turned out well, these are clearly good for beer barrel aging
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