Barrel Reserve Series #04
AJB - Anglo Japanese Brewery in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.70
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Aroma is weird, glue. Fruity, Flanders Red/Oud bruin type taste. Boozy. Taste is interesting, fruity, dry, vinous. Sharp. Oaky.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle into a teku showing well filtered amber-brown and barely any carbonation. The nose shows moderately intense tart notes of apple vinegar and light notes of malts. The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Lightly tart with with very light flavors of grainy malt and moderately intense bitterness on the finish that seems out of place.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Muddy red brown color. Big Brett nose with lots of wood and green apple. Mouth has low carbonation, lot of wood and apple, but pretty simplistic. Finishes a bit lifeless with a lack of character of any sort. Starts off great but fads quickly.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at a Tasting. A deep orange gold with a Bretty orange/citrusy aroma. Medium to full bodied with a tart acidic fruit flavor and some mild pale malt notes. Pretty average to me but everyone told me I overrated it. 3.4 Second time around, it is a clear Amber orange with oaky notes. The taste has an odd biscuit caramel brett going on. Different.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Nose of vinegar, caramel, crackers. Ok. Orange, clear, flat. Woody flavor, cherries, nicely tart. Rather astringent in the finish. Stupidly and annoyingly flat. This is an ok Femmish Red, without real depth of flavor, but the flatness (persistent throughout this series) makes it unpleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Mikkeller as BA Pale Ale and in the bottle as Reserve #4. Big sour red nose with some light balsamic notes and huge oak. Very light body, lighter than the nose suggests which is awesome. Easily drinkable with a lot of character. Creamy with some vanilla and more tartness, but not as pronounced as the nose. Dryish finish. Very nice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Barrel Reserve Series#4 on 03 May 2016 at 18:01 - Score: 7. Original review text: Tart plum and grape. Oaky notes. Tart on the palate. Creamy. Tasty.