Kentucky Common - Bourbon Barrel
Local Option Bierwerker in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Against the Grain BreweryTraditional Beer - Kentucky Common Regular
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Score
6.97
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at Paradiso Dupont. Deep purple maroon color, flat. Aroma of dark winter fruit, vanilla, port. Taste is red wine, very subtle carbonation. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Keg at Kings Arm’s. It pours black with a small beige. The nose is earthy, roasty, cola, lactic, wood, vanilla and dark fruits. The taste tart, earthy, mild acidity, cola, berry skin, wood, light vanilla, lactic and sherbet with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Interesting and rather drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Local Option, 4/18/14
Deep amber-auburn colored beer with darker mahogany shades. Clarity is high while the beige head is small and shows moderate retention.
Clean, sweet maltiness coupled with the spicier, more aromatic side of bourbon. Not just a shot of boozey, raw, grainy bourbon but nicely integrated with the beer, producing cherry-like fruitiness, light chocolate and tons of soft caramel. I get very little booziness on the end and just a touch of the expected vanilla. Medium strength of aroma.
The flavor is is full of medium-sweet caramel malt, tons of fruitiness and soft, spicy bourbon. Add to this a wonderfully invigorating texture (tight carbonation, soft, supple maltiness) and it’s just incredibly drinkable and lacking on the booze or grainy astringency often found in these beers. Furthermore, while the bourbon flavor is certainly quite present, it dosent completely take over the beer. Good wood and malt complexities and a lingering bourbon and fruit finish. Close with Morning Wood for my favorite beer I had at Local Option. Interesting that the ratings of this are all over the place. I guess everyone calls it tart, where I just saw a nice, balancing, fruitiy acidity. I guess that may be a bit off-putting to those just looking for a straightforward bourbon-aged stout-like beer, which this is certainly not.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Backcountry Pizza. Pours black with medium beige head. The aroma is oak, roast, booze, and grain. Medium mouthfeel with strong wood, light tartness, with nice caramel malt. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap @ Irreale. Strong brown colour, almost black, with an off-white hed that quickly diminishes. Aroma has notes of toasted malts and coffee woth slightly bourbon. Flavor is quite similar as aroma with a mild sourness and wooden traces. The final is roasted malts with coffee mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at City Beer. Smoke, slight chocolate and tart aroma. Pours dark brown with brown head that collars. Taste is chocolate malt, sweet grain, slight lemon and moderate tart. Complex and well balanced.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Woody light bourbon and chocolate malt aroma. Dark brown with moderate head and effervescence. Tart cherry, sweet bourbon, and caramel malt flavor. Mild astringent finish . Unique - nearest comparison IMHO would be a Dunkles Bock.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Kentucky Fried Charleston Trip Beer #70. Draft at Brewvival. Pours a hazy dark brown color with a thin fizzy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of heavy bourbon, mild corn, brown malt. The taste is lactic tartness, bourbon, mild corn. Medium bodied, a bit too heavy on the bourbon.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Smoke & Barrel. Poured a dark brown color with a thin off-white head. Aroma was notes of cherries, chocolate malts, some bourbon notes. Flavor was notes of sour cherries, barrel notes, wood. Tasty dark lightly soured beer.