Brainless on Cherries (Batch 5 and higher, Red Wine Barrel)
Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.69
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Note: batch 5 and all subsequent batches are put into Red Wine Barrels (the batch number is printed on the label). All earlier batches were in White Wine Barrels and should not be rated here. Release 5 of Brainless on Cherries, has a new twist- we used Red Wine (cab and syrah) barrels for the second fermentation and aging as apposed to White Wine barrels. The result, dryer, lighter body, fruit shines thru and a bit of tannin and wood notes in the finish
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 2/8/13, Release # 13
Aroma: The nose has some sour cherries, wood, barnyard funk, and yeast
Appearance: It pours a reddish color with a small, quickly dissipating head and no lace
Flavor: The taste is on the tart side, with some wood, funk, wine, and fruity flavors
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has soft-to-average carbonation, and a dry, tart finish
Overall Impression: I found this to be a fairly interesting and worth try offering. It has a nice tartness to it, some funkiness, and mustiness too.
Aroma: The nose has some sour cherries, wood, barnyard funk, and yeast
Appearance: It pours a reddish color with a small, quickly dissipating head and no lace
Flavor: The taste is on the tart side, with some wood, funk, wine, and fruity flavors
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has soft-to-average carbonation, and a dry, tart finish
Overall Impression: I found this to be a fairly interesting and worth try offering. It has a nice tartness to it, some funkiness, and mustiness too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2013
at 19:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Grumpy’s. Gold color. Soft carbonation. Real cherry flavor and aroma. Lightly swewt and pronounced Belgian yeast, which surprised me.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jan 2013
at 14:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz. [ Release #12 ]. ABV: 10.7%. Clear light to medium red colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, young, horse blanket, barnyard, cherry, wood, alcohol, almonds. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet, light acidic and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, wood, cherries, aok, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120914]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2013
at 09:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a pale reddish color with a white head. Has a fruity spicy yeasty cherry aroma. Fruity spicy weak woody cherry flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty cherry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2012
at 07:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, release #12, 10.7%. Hazy pinkish purple color, pink head with fair retention. Aroma of vanilla, lemon, cherries, caramel. Taste is tannic cherries, slightly boozy edge, dry finish. Think I like the white wine version a bit better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2012
at 16:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle #Release 12, 10.7% @ FOneFan. Slightly hazy dark amber/red with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, cherries and wine. Flavour is malt, cherries, red wine, little sweet, wood and medium dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 13:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Release 12. Hazy reddish orange with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, cherries and wood. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 140912
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 13:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Really Late Ulfborg Summer Tasting, 2012. Pours cloudy red with a small off white head. Wood, cherries, caramel, marzipan and a bit of funk. Young and "in-complex".
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 13:55
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is red. Aroma and taste are cherries, wood, malt, hops and is a bit vinous. Semi dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 13:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber split with Anndiesel. Bright pink-red, thick and opaque. Thinnish bubbly head, soda-like. Some nice cherry in the aroma. I get way more wine notes than cherries in the flavor though. Sort of boozy, in a Boons Farm way. A decent, enjoyable strong beer, but I think the wine barrel kill it for me. They take away all subtlety, adding a vinous, boozy, cheap feel. Unique, but not to my liking.
Tried
on 10 Sep 2012
at 20:33