Bend Brewing Company collaborated with Newport Avenue Market and Bohemian Roastery to release a special beer, Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout, a strong stout aged in bourbon barrels and conditioned on coffee. The beer was released last Friday and is on the market now; here’s the press release:

Iconic Bend-based businesses, Bend Brewing Company and Newport Avenue Market, have once again teamed up to create an exclusive blended barrel-aged coffee stout dubbed Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout. The beer will be available in 16-oz cans on Friday December 3 exclusively at Newport Avenue Market in Bend, Oliver Lemon’s in Sisters and Terrebonne and at BBC’s downtown Bend brewpub.

Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout was conceived by BBC Lead Brewer Ryan Blasquez and Newport Avenue Market Beer and Wine Manager Robert McCarthy. The beer is a blend of Export Stout aged for 15 months in Bourbon barrels from Oregon Spirit Distillers, 1-year-old Imperial Stout, and fresh Imperial Stout. The combination of these stouts were conditioned on 40-lbs. of organic Honduran Estrella Lenca coffee, wood-fire roasted by Bend based Bohemian Roastery.

“We worked with Jeff and Shelley from Bohemian Roastery on a previous project and were blown away by the coffee flavor and aroma their wood-fire roasted coffee brought to the beer, so naturally we thought to include them in this collaboration,” says Ryan Blasquez, BBC Lead Brewer.

Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout pours inky black with strong notes of oak, baker’s chocolate, brown sugar with noticeable warmth. The tropical climate of Honduras and high-altitude soil give the Estrella Lenca coffee its distinct spicy flavors while Bohemian Roastery’s unique wood-fire roasting produces a gentle, moist heat that develops the bean without producing additional acidity. The resulting beer can be enjoyed fresh but is a great candidate for aging.

According to Untappd, Not Your Usual… is 10.8% ABV and (I’m sure this is a typo) 736 IBUs. (73.6?)

We picked up a couple of cans this week on a shopping run, and I’m sure a review will make it here at some point.