⌂ > Coronado Barrel Aged Black Forest Cake

Barrel-Aged Black Forest Cake began as a complex imperial stout, with layers of toffee, roast, and chocolate. The beer was aged for five months in freshly dumped bourbon and rye barrels, with cherries added for secondary fermentation. A second batch of the base stout was brewed with whole Madagascar vanilla beans and cocoa, before blending with the barrels. You get a lot of the cherries in the nose, and the blurbon character really highlights the vanilla beans, without being too sweet. It finishes at 9% ABV with a lingering cocoa finish.