Aztec Ale - Bourbon Barrel
Breakside Brewery in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Regular|
Score
7.03
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We’ve aged our flagship strong ale in Heaven Hill Bourbon barrels for the last several months, and the result is a complex and fiery brew. You’ll get notes of chile, chocolate, cherry, vanilla, and whiskey in this behemoth of a beer. On draught for a very limited amount of time; available in 750 ml Champagne-style bottles until they sell out!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From bottle at bytemesis 10K tasting. Clear dark brown color with off white head. Malty aroma, roasted, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, light fruity. Sweet and light bitter taste. Light to medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2018
at 10:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, shared by Andrew?? Pours clear chestnut, small beige head, dissipates quickly, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, toffee. Medium sweet, medium bitter. Medium body. A bit sharp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2018
at 06:07
9/10
Bit thinner than expected but not a stout or Porter so forgiven, huge sweet upfront but forgiven with the spice that follows. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2018
at 21:52
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber. Aroma is pungent bourbon, oak, Play-Doh, caramel, chocolate, coconut, earth, almonds, dark fruit. Goddam that bourbon is strong, but it fades thankfully to a nuance after a couple minutes, just where I like it. Pours hazy brown with orange highlights and a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is sweet, savory and very faintly spicy with a very mild detection of chili pepper heat, finishing with a hint of tartness; flavors like the best bourbon barrel aged brews: not overly boozy with suggestions of bourbon and flavors of vanilla, coconut, cashew brittle, wood. Overall, it's a really nice brew that I was expecting to be a nasty booze bomb considering that aroma and my previous experience with their Salted Caramel barrel aged beer. I'm glad it redeemed itself and mellowed out. Edit: the chili pepper heat builds on the tongue almost imperceptibly, helping to create this really nice flavor profile. What started out nearly undetectable builds up noticeably, never becoming even moderately spicy by pepper beer standards, but still building up to where there's a nice tingle going on all around the mouth. Pleasant overall.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2018
at 08:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
It's a super smooth Ultra mellow beer that hides the alcohol very well but also hides all the other qualities that they're touting such as chocolate chillies fruits and spices. Nice beer but nothing really crazy good.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2018
at 06:53
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured into a snifter, the appearance was a ruddy dark orange to light brown color with a little off white foamy head that fell off at a moderate pace. Some sliding lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, sweet wood and a dry little spicy chili pepper balancing it all out nicely.
The flavor was sweet with the chocolate, coconut and vanilla up front allowing the chili heat to come in slightly. Aftertaste was almost non-existent but seemed to have just a touch of the milk chocolate. Finish was the same.
The palate was medium bodied with some of the \"heat\" to coincide with the meddling of the feel (the bourbon to the spicy \"heat\"). Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty nice strong ale, American or English, hell if I know, just damn good.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, sweet wood and a dry little spicy chili pepper balancing it all out nicely.
The flavor was sweet with the chocolate, coconut and vanilla up front allowing the chili heat to come in slightly. Aftertaste was almost non-existent but seemed to have just a touch of the milk chocolate. Finish was the same.
The palate was medium bodied with some of the \"heat\" to coincide with the meddling of the feel (the bourbon to the spicy \"heat\"). Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty nice strong ale, American or English, hell if I know, just damn good.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2017
at 20:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Tavour given to me by my daughter. Nose is chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, and a hint of chipolte. Murky rusty orange with a medium, lightly lacing, beige head. Flavor is big vanilla, oak, light bourbon, and a very light capsaicin heat. Nicely done as far as I am concerned.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2017
at 15:05
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours a near clear reddish amber with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has an odd combination of spice, earthy grains, oak and chocolate. Flavor is muddled as well with chocolate, oak, pepper and some earthy grains.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2016
at 19:57
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
22oz bottle pours a hazy orange with some thin, sudsy, fading head. Nose has booze, butterscotch, buttery oak, malt, some green vanilla, mild dried fruit. Nose isn’t great. Flavor follows along, overly sweet, lots of tannic sweet tea, the pepper comes through, heat but also odd vegetal notes, some paint thinner. Thin, oily finish. Was not digging this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2015
at 16:41
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Tasting at Matt’s
Hazy amber color with small head. Aroma of green chillies, a bit dusty. The mouthfeel is a bit sweet; no distinctive flavor, a bit of sweeteners, dusty peppers; the alcohol is clearly perceived. Somehow messy and boozy.
Hazy amber color with small head. Aroma of green chillies, a bit dusty. The mouthfeel is a bit sweet; no distinctive flavor, a bit of sweeteners, dusty peppers; the alcohol is clearly perceived. Somehow messy and boozy.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2014
at 02:45