This past weekend, I drank the booziest beer I’ve ever drank. Imperial stouts are my favorite, so I’m definitely into boozy beers, but when I saw this bottle I was intimidated. 17.8% ABV. Bottled in 2014 and cellared for three years. A formidable mammoth. A challenge. I picked up a bottle to try.

In that bottle was Tweak, a bourbon-barrel aged coffee stout from Avery Brewing in Boulder, CO. It’s part of their annual barrel series, which this year includes Tweak, Uncle Jacob’s stout, a bourbon-barrel aged stout, and Rumpkin, a rum-barrel aged pumpkin beer. (Remind me to pick one of those up come August.)