Bourbon DIPA
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.28
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Hardywood Bourbon DIPA is hopped with a heavy dose of Columbus, Cascade and Summit hops, fermented with an abbey ale yeast that imparts some subtle tropical fruit and peppery notes and conditioned twelve weeks in freshly emptied Virginia bourbon barrels from the A. Smith Bowman Distillery, where earthy, vanilla, toffee and bourbon notes lend an exquisite mellowness to Bourbon DIPA.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Brewdown. Pours reddish amber with white head. Nose and taste of bourbon, caramel malt, sticky sweetness and toffee. Medium body. This was my last beer of the night. If you look at my actual tasting notes, they read "red dish w mtt h_d cand mnts tow mish By." Somehow I was able to decipher that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2013
at 22:48
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
slightly hazy burnt orange and no head. smells like cherries and raspberries. no hop presence at all. Taste is orange, some muted old hops and some oaky bourbon booziness but it’s very weird. As for an IPA, it’s sort of a shell of an iPA and very boozy and weak on the bitterness.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2013
at 19:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: Draft at the Brewery, 11/17/12
Aroma: The nose is heavy on bourbon and wood, with underlying herbal and pine hops
Appearance: This one pours a hazy dark orange color with a small head and some lacing
Flavor: The flavor has some of each of the bourbon and the hop bitterness, but the bourbon is stronger
Palate: The body is medium-plus, it feels fairly creamy, and the heat settles into the more dry finish
Overall Impression: I thought this was a pretty solid example of a bourbon barrel aged DIPA. The bourbon/wood definitely overpowers the hop presence in the nose, and it is also a little strong in the flavor, but the hops come through more in the flavor then in the nose. I thought the combination worked well, but if the bourbon overpowering the hops is not for you, you might not enjoy one.
Aroma: The nose is heavy on bourbon and wood, with underlying herbal and pine hops
Appearance: This one pours a hazy dark orange color with a small head and some lacing
Flavor: The flavor has some of each of the bourbon and the hop bitterness, but the bourbon is stronger
Palate: The body is medium-plus, it feels fairly creamy, and the heat settles into the more dry finish
Overall Impression: I thought this was a pretty solid example of a bourbon barrel aged DIPA. The bourbon/wood definitely overpowers the hop presence in the nose, and it is also a little strong in the flavor, but the hops come through more in the flavor then in the nose. I thought the combination worked well, but if the bourbon overpowering the hops is not for you, you might not enjoy one.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Nov 2012
at 11:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at brewery last Saturday. Poured a dark copper color with a small off-white head. Aroma was heavy on the bourbon, so much so that most of the rest of the beer has been pushed to the background on this particular brew. The flavor is about the same - very dominant with the bourbon, mellow with the rest. I remarked while drinking this that it wasn’t exactly a complex beer - at least not compared to something with a base that is a bit more dark and roasted, I did enjoy it a lot.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2012
at 23:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Served on draft at the Virginia Craft Brewers Festival, Devils Backbone, 8/25/12. Pours a hazy bronze color with a thin fizzy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of wood, herbal notes, bourbon and caramel. The taste is herbal hops, wood, whisky, berries. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2012
at 12:38