“There is also no guarantee that the barrels will function properly and hold the beer without leaking,” added Waters.
For this shipment of barrels, we teamed up with Everybody’s Brewing and Breakside Brewing,” said Waters. Generally, you have to do a buy-in with several other breweries in order to meet the distillery’s minimum. “Barrels are getting extremely expensive and hard to find. Kevin Waters, Backwoods’ Brewmaster, was able to order 12 barrels altogether for this beer (each barrel was filled with 50 gallons of stout). Sourcing the barrels to age the stout was no easy feat. The base stout is comprised of four different malts, including roasted barley and chocolate malt. The Stumbler gives off notes of vanilla, charred oak & brown sugar, and follows with a light smokiness. When we finally decided it was time, everyone on our production team was ecstatic!” This time around, we used as much restraint as we could and held out for 18 months. “We get excited to try the beer and share it, so we have only ever had the patience for a 6-month aging. “Prior to this, our longest barrel aging has been around 6 months,” said Jordan Tanasse, head of sales for Backwoods. This is the longest barrel aging Backwoods has ever done.
Not to be confused with their Imperial Honey IPA, the Bumbler, The Stumbler is a Russian Imperial Stout aged for 18 months in Heaven Hill Bourbon barrels. (Carson, WA) – Backwoods Brewing Company is releasing a new bourbon barrel-aged stout next week, named The Stumbler.
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