Tasted side by side with the 2014. The extra year of aging makes it much smoother, although both are excellent.

Tasted side by side with the 2013. The extra year of aging makes the 2013 much smoother, although both are excellent.

Suffers only because it was in a vertical tasting with the 2013. Amazing difference: much less aroma and sharper, rawer flavors - a little spikey sweet, a little fire. This would have been superb on its own but it gets knocked down because, like Matthew McConaughey, it's still chasing its future self.

So, wow. About a year of aging brings this beer to pretty much perfect. Great Bourbon toffee nose, and soooo smooth.