Bourbon King
Brouwerij Alvinne in Moen, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.31
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bourbon King from Brouwerij Alvinne 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bourbon barrel aged and extra strong version of the Red King Alvinne has been making exclusively for Bierhalle Deconinck for quite a while now. Thanks to tderoeck for sharing. Pale greyish beige, mousy, irregular, bubbly and quickly opening head, hazy copper bronze robe with burgundy hue. Quite intense bouquet of blackberry juice, figs in ‘jenever’, plum compote, sweet bourbon indeed but in a somewhat ‘distorted’ way that is actually more reminiscent of brown rum, madera, Belgian chocolates, walnut oil, wet oak wood including vanilla, cooked pear, old tawny port, damp earth, sour grapes. Deep balsamic- and blackberry-like sour ‘underbuilt’ in the onset but covered under a big heap of brown candi sugar, creating a kind of ‘fake’ feeling of indeed quadrupel-like sweetness; softish carb, very full, but smooth and bit vinous mouthfeel. Thickly caramelly, bready and cookie-like maltiness fills the middle, soaked in considerable oakiness including both a vanilla-ish scent and drying, powerful woody tannins; the booze is strong, sweet and warming, again somewhat more rum-like than truly bourbon-like, but matching well with the rest of the flavours. Herbal, fig- and blackberry jam-like aspects linger in this boozy warmth. Cleverly sweetened to achieve a quad-like profile, but in essence, this is clearly a Morpheus yeast-fermented potent sour Alvinne ale – not that there is anything wrong with that of course, on the contrary. A worthy sipper for a winter evening.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Bourbon King from Brouwerij Alvinne 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
11/I/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: X/2023 (2020-29)
I’ve had this one laying around since whenever. Finally found a good reason to open it up! Clear red brown beer, small creamy irregular beige head, unstable, big bubbled, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of dried fruits, rum raisins, hint of vanilla, sourish impression, oxidized, overripe fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of alcohol, soft bitterness, very oxidized, raisins, spicy, caramel. Aftertaste: alcohol, dried fruits, malty, soft roast, alcohol, bit weird and yeasty, some banana, caramel, raisins, banana peel. Good but a bit too yeasty. Probably bottle yeast ate some of the barrel aromas?
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Bourbon King from Brouwerij Alvinne 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
03/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Clear amber coloured, no head. Nose is sweet, malts, caramel, bit chocolate, boozy. Taste is malts, bit wood, pralines, sweet alcohol. I suppose the base beer was Land Van Mortagne. However not my favorite barrel aged Land Van Mortagne.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Bourbon King from Brouwerij Alvinne 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Deconinck, Vichte. Dark brown colour, creamy beige foam. Nose of oak, bourbon, whisky, some red fruit, dried plums. Taste is sweet, light vinous tart, sweet bourbon, some hoppy bitterness. Great quadrupel.