Part of a double batch, along with my "Darkest Days" Imperial Mocha Stout, this beer was a good opportunity for me to blend ingredients from both its sister beer as well as from my "Tender Surrender" Bourbon Milk Stout. I wanted a sweet beer with a strong bourbon and vanilla flavour while still maintaining some of its roastiness from the coffee and grains. Once fermentation was done, the beer was transferred to another container and left for another 30 days on a bed of medium toasted oak chips that had already been soaked in a mix of bourbon and vanilla beans. Add on top of that a bunch of cacao nibs and later on some extra Valhalla Java Odinforce Blend coffee and you've got yourself the recipe for one groovy stout. After another week, the batch was bottled and moved to the cellar for an extra 4 months of final conditioning before being finally ready to be released into the wild, with a fair amount of bottles even aging for over a year in order to give this beer plenty of time to mature and build complexity.