January 10, 2025

9/4490) Home:  Origin of Darkness 2024 Bourbon Barrel Aged Old Fashioned Imperial Stout by Collective Arts of Ontario in collaboration with the Establishment Brewing Company of Alberta; :  ****1/2; 11.9%; a tribute to the Old Fashioned cocktail; with wheat, oats, Demerara sugar, cocktail bitters, infused with fresh orange zest and aged in Bourbon barrels; black, virtually no head; aromas of bitter orange, dark chocolate, oak; tastes of bourbon, bitter orange, cocktail bitters and dark chocolate; unusual, perhaps but here again it works;