You’ve seen the term ‘barrel aged’ all over your local beer shop. Barrel aged stout, barrel aged barleywine, barrel aged IPA…you name it. But what are you getting when you pick up a bottle? For the most part, a barrel aged version of a beer is going to be a fuller flavored—and generally more expensive—version of the base beer, in part thanks to the flavors imparted by the barrel itself (and whatever booze lived in that barrel before your beer.) Here are 9 of our favorites. Read More
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