Weyerbacher Brewing Co. · Easton, Pennsylvania
Sunday Morning Stout
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout · 12% ABV · Bottled 12/29/13 · Best By 12/28/16 · Opened May 2026
Sight
Pitch black, fully opaque. A thin tan head surfaced briefly and collapsed without ceremony, leaving no lacing, no trace of what came before.
Smell
Dark chocolate led, deep and genuine. Beneath it, faint whispers of oak and vanilla — the barrel still present, though fading. Then the metallic note arrived, quiet but unmistakable.
Taste
An initial flash of carbonation carried dark chocolate and a ghost of barrel forward, but the middle dissolved — metallic, disjointed, the oak and roast no longer in conversation with each other.
Mouthfeel
Thin where 12% and barrel aging should have left something substantial. Carbonation spent. The architecture had collapsed.
Finish
Brief and hollow. The barrel had nothing left to give.
The barrel and the brewer had given this one real aging potential, and cool storage had done its part. But a decade is a long ask of any crown cap. The roast endured. Everything else did not. Poured out with respect.