Sentience (Bourbon Barrel)
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.26
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ CBC 2015, Green Session, København
Pours dark reddish brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, funk, tart, red berries and oak. Taste is medium sweet and medium sour with a long warm, sour, berry, oak and slightly dry finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught sample at CBC 2015. Dark brown colour with a thin, lightly tanned head. Sweet aroma with rich caramel malts, dark dried fruits, woody notes, vanilla and chocolate. Alcohol dense. Taste is sweet. Full body, oily texture. Lasting sweet finish with rich caramel malts and bourbon barrel Very pleasant barrel ageing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at CBC 2015, Copenhagen. Originally rated 20150502. Colour is brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Dryness, wood, berries and some malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours hazy brown with a small brown head. Aroma of light sourness, malt, yeast wood, dark fruit, bourbon. Flavor is light sour, light sweet, malty, yeast, wood, dark fruits, caramel, bourbon, alcohol. Medium body, soft carbonation, light acidic finish with some alcohol. 020515
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
02.05.2015, tap @ CBC:
Tiny bubbly shortlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish sweet, sour dark fruits, grass, caramel malts, oak, mild vinegar, sugar, sorrel. Taste is sour-ish dry, dark fruits, minerals, sorrel, oak, berry skin, fruit stones, mild vinegar, bark, citrus acid. Medium bitterness, dry acidic mouthfeel. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at CBC 2015. Dark brown with a small head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, light funk and some dark fruit. Similar taste. Also some berries. The carbonation was low and the body medium.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at CBC 2015. Pours dark brown with a ring tan head. Aroma of roast, dark chocolate tart dark fruits and vanilla. Flavour is light moderate sweet and over moderate sour. Medium bodied with light moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at CBC15.. Deep brown.. Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet chocolate sour roast nose... Dark malts.. Sour roast.. Light tart fruits
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample at Kurtkeller 011: Crooked Stave-tastic 01 on 05/02/2014. Pours a clear dark brown color with a medium foamy off-white head that diminishes steadily. Rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of dark fruit, malt and yeast. Full-bodied with flavors of earthy malt, bourbon, fruity yeast and oak. The finish is malty up front with a dark fruit and oaky bourbon aftertaste. Good beer overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375ml bottle shared by Brad. Pretty awesome beer. Soured, intense, more so than the bourbon, but still captures some of that as well. Biting sharp sourness. The bourbon barrel and deep malt flavors are sort of there, but sort of eaten away too. Really cool beer.