The Bruery White Chocolate

White Chocolate

 

The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Barley Wine - Wheat Rotating
Score
7.48
ABV: 14.0% IBU: - Ticks: 131
Bourbon barrel-aged wheat-wine ale with cacao nibs and vanilla beans

A tasteful treatment of cacao nibs and hand-processed vanilla beans lace the golden waves of this wheatwine-style ale with a subtle savoriness reminiscent of white chocolate. Notes of coconut, honey, caramel, and vanilla intertwine seamlessly in this bourbon barrel-aged treat.

Old Notes: The primary component of our “White Oak” ale is a 100% barrel aged wheat wine that we affectionately refer to as “White Oak Sap.” Essentially a “summer” barley-wine style ale, but made with a wheat heavy grain base, White Oak Sap is aged in used bourbon barrels for nearly a year and comes out rich in flavors of coconut, honey, caramel and vanilla. To compliment the already rich flavors of the beer, we’ve added cacao nibs and vanilla beans to give this beer the delicate flavor of white chocolate…hence the name.

2012 = 14.25%
2013 = 14.75%
2014 = 14.3%
2015 = 16.6%
2016 = 15.1%
2017 = 13.8%
2018 = 14%
2019 = 14.3%
2020 = 14.8%
2021 = 14%
 

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5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

I walked into a bottle share on my second trip to On-Tap. Can't tell the age on the bottle. Short pour into a 5oz glass. Murky, dull brown ale, almost flat. Most likely older bottle. Boozy, some smoke, soy sauce nose. Intense caramel candy & diffused bourbon, extra sugar, bittersweet, peanut oxidation, headache level sugar, pound cake. Just too much.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2024 at 21:24


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

1-1-22 Grand Liquor

Tried on 02 Jan 2023 at 04:15


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Lukt: Rosin, vanilje, kokos. Utseende: Honning gyllen. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Rosin, vanilje, kokos. Medium: Rating:-646412, Flaske@750ml, ABV@16.6%, Når@25.11.2022. Hvor: Juleølsmaking Kumlefjorden. The Bruery White Chocolate Barley Wine / Wheat Wine / Rye Wine

Tried on 25 Nov 2022 at 20:02


8

Tried on 08 Jan 2022 at 16:22


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

29 October 2021. Third Great Timternational Beer Geek Tasting. Cheers to the Ghent beer crew!

Vintage 2020. Clear amber, thin, off-white head. Aroma has lots of green apple (acetaldehyde), bourbon, vanilla, pear, wood, 'Twix' bar, caramel, apricot. Taste has sweet apricot, date & green apple in a caramelly, honey-like, generally low chocolate-like malt body, touch of vanilla cream, bit spicy. Peppery hoppy finish, apple & apricot candy notes lingering as well as quite boozy bourbon alcohol. Medium to full body, thin oily texture, average carbonation. Feels young, thin, and somewhat besides the point. Disappointing.

Tried on 13 Dec 2021 at 14:27


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

29/X/21 - 1Pt. can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ Third Great Timternational Beer Geek Tasting (Gent), BB: n/a, canned: 15/I/20, 2020 edition (2021-1212)

Clear orange beer, rather small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: caramel, earthy, vanilla, malty, some acetaldehyde, slightly sweet impression, earthy and leathery notes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, earthy touch, leathery, bit sourish, hoppy, some orange peel, little bitter. Aftertaste: rather dry, bitter touch, dried fruits, little oxidized, caramel, sourish, surprisingly light, easy drinkable, hint of vanilla, little oxidized.

Tried from Can from Bierhalle Deconinck on 29 Oct 2021 at 20:30


8

EB from yesterday’s Bruery Bonanza 2021

Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2021 at 16:04


7

Nose smells like a brownie. Cold, it is just a standard light body wheatwine. Warmer, the vanilla comes a bit more thru

Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2021 at 22:51


9.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9.5

Efter Dipa provning kör vi en öl från Världens enligt oss bästa bryggeri. Förhoppningar är alltså mye höga. Ölen doftar åhhhjjjj fiiin bourbon med lite vitt vin. Doften är mycket bättre än vad jag klarar beskriva med ord. När jag klunkar känns ? Typ madeira, vitt vin blandat med lite russin och bourbon i PERFEKT balans . SUPERGOD öl igen från bruery. Bourbon är återgiven helt perfekt balans från bruery. Åhhhh

Tried on 07 Feb 2021 at 07:48


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Aus der Flasche (2017 Edition / 15.8%) im 2021-02 getrunken. Dieses orange, kupferfarbe Barley Wine mit hell beiger Schaumkrone hat eine deutliche aber wohl dosierte Vanilienote. Die Bourbonfass-Einfluss und dadurch das Aroma ist schon nicht besonders komplex, sondern wird fast schon recht einfach. Erinnert mich fast an ein Innis & Gunn Original. Der hohe Alkohlgehalt ist sehr gut eingebunden, aber der Körper wirkt überrascht sehr leicht und somit ist das Bier fast schon gefährlich süffig. Ein echt leckeres und wunderbar ausgewogenes Barley Wine!

Tried on 06 Feb 2021 at 19:49