Unobtanium
Straight to Ale in Huntsville, Alabama, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.22
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Unobtainium is a bold, rich, complex Old Ale, aged in bourbon barrels for six months. This beer is sweet, powerful, and filled with bourbon character! Unobtainium is made with pale malts, black malts, crystal malts, and molasses. This limited release goes fast, so obtain some when you can!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Big and boozy, malt-heavy and proud of it. Full of caramel, tobacco, candy apple, dates, cocoa, a little molasses, and a lot of bourbon. Finishes with a mild oaked bitterness and lingering whiskey warmth. A sipping brew, for damn sure.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Feb 2021
at 01:08
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
(Thanks, James! "jbruner") Bottle. A- Butterscotch, oak, cherry, boozy, brown sugar, molasses, raisins, scotch. A- Dark garnet color, clear liquid, beige head. T- Oak, boozy, brown sugar, subtle dark cherry. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, complex finish. O- What a way to knock off Alabama. A real nice sipper. I feel bad for folks in Alabama that can’t enjoy this on a cold snowy winter day. Reminds me a lot of Founders Backwoods Bastard. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2016
at 14:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft - Dark malts, caramel and light bourbon notes. Very dark brown with a light brown head. Dark toasted malts, booze, light yeasty sweetness and a long fruity ester finish. Vanilla and dark fruit are there, but the sweet booze is a put off for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jun 2014
at 16:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Rcvd in trade.
The appearance has a dark brown close to black colored body with a slim half fingered white foamy head that dies within twenty seconds. There’s not much lacing but what there is tries to coat the glass but slides fairly quickly.
The smell has some dark rich malts, toffee and coffee with a large amount of barrel aged bourbon-ness. Once it warms a bit I do start to get some woodiness.
The taste is kinda sweet to woody almost a rich sort of maltiness that tries to add a bitterness but doesn’t really cut it. The aftertaste is a pretty rich woody/maltiness with a dry lingering woody finish.
The palate sits about a medium to heavy with a fairly low carbonation. There’s a decent sweet wet finish, sessionability - well, ok, not bad, I could see having several pints in a session.
Overall, this is an old ale and you know what - though old ales aren’t my go to style, this one was very good.
The appearance has a dark brown close to black colored body with a slim half fingered white foamy head that dies within twenty seconds. There’s not much lacing but what there is tries to coat the glass but slides fairly quickly.
The smell has some dark rich malts, toffee and coffee with a large amount of barrel aged bourbon-ness. Once it warms a bit I do start to get some woodiness.
The taste is kinda sweet to woody almost a rich sort of maltiness that tries to add a bitterness but doesn’t really cut it. The aftertaste is a pretty rich woody/maltiness with a dry lingering woody finish.
The palate sits about a medium to heavy with a fairly low carbonation. There’s a decent sweet wet finish, sessionability - well, ok, not bad, I could see having several pints in a session.
Overall, this is an old ale and you know what - though old ales aren’t my go to style, this one was very good.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2014
at 22:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours clear deep mahogany with a small tan head that dissipates quickly but leaves some lacing. Aroma is carmal, toffee, bourbon, vanilla. Flavor is much the same plus some astringency and character from the wood. Medium sweet, little bitterness. A bit on the hot side on the finish. Tastes much more like a BA wee heavy than an old ale, but what the hey :)
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2013
at 17:46