Mother of All Storms
Pelican Brewing Company in Pacific City, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.95
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English-style barleywine ale aged in bourbon barrels.
There are many storms out there, all of them perfect in their own way. But there is only one Mother of all Storms and it only happens in Pacific City, Oregon. Based on Stormwatcher’s Winterfest, our English-style barleywine, Mother of all Storms spent many months aging in Kentucky bourbon barrels. Now at its peak, Mother of all Storms delivers deep flavors of toasted malt, bourbon and oak. The finish rewards with whispers of vanilla, toffee and caramel. Best enjoyed with gusts exceeding 60 mph.
(from label)
Plato: 32°
Ingredients: Golden Promise Malt, Munich Malt, Melanoidin Malt, Caramel Malt, Torrified Wheat, Magnum Hops, Glacier Hops, Pure Ale Yeast, Pure Coastal Water
(from https://pelicanbrewing.com/beer/mother-of-all-storms)
2008 (The Perfect Storm): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2007 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2009 (The Perfect Storm): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2007 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2010 (Mother of All Storms): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2009 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2011 (Mother of All Storms): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2010 aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels.
2021 14%
There are many storms out there, all of them perfect in their own way. But there is only one Mother of all Storms and it only happens in Pacific City, Oregon. Based on Stormwatcher’s Winterfest, our English-style barleywine, Mother of all Storms spent many months aging in Kentucky bourbon barrels. Now at its peak, Mother of all Storms delivers deep flavors of toasted malt, bourbon and oak. The finish rewards with whispers of vanilla, toffee and caramel. Best enjoyed with gusts exceeding 60 mph.
(from label)
Plato: 32°
Ingredients: Golden Promise Malt, Munich Malt, Melanoidin Malt, Caramel Malt, Torrified Wheat, Magnum Hops, Glacier Hops, Pure Ale Yeast, Pure Coastal Water
(from https://pelicanbrewing.com/beer/mother-of-all-storms)
2008 (The Perfect Storm): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2007 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2009 (The Perfect Storm): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2007 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2010 (Mother of All Storms): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2009 aged in Evan Williams bourbon barrels.
2011 (Mother of All Storms): Stormwatcher's Winterfest 2010 aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels.
2021 14%
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample from 2015 bottle at the "Post Beer Week Bottle Share" on 06/06/16. The beer pours a very dark brown color with a hint of amber around the edges, and a medium beige head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of bourbon, malt and dark fruits. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, caramel malt, fig and vanilla. The finish is boozy with an oaky vanilla and malt aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2016
at 15:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bottle, 2015, poured into snifter. Clear brown with no head. Aroma is nice caramel malt, medium body, no carbonation, and very little lacing. Taste is caramel malt, oak, some alcohol, and toffee. Pretty good, but heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2016
at 17:37
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Foiled bomber. 2015 bottle, 14% ABV. Aroma starts out pungent with strong bourbon notes, but it milds out pretty quickly, leaving a perfect smelling barrel-aged beer--coconut, vanilla, light wood, licorice, raisin, toffee, and some cheese. Pours a deep dark brown with one finger of tan foam that reduces after a minute. Taste is sweet and savory with all aroma deScriptors represented in flavor. I really dig the cheesiness. Kind of a curveball there. Body is full, mouthfeel damn near chewy. As good of a barrel-aged beer as I’ve ever had I think, rivaling Firestone Walker’s Anniversary beers. The only thing preventing a perfect score is a feeling of being slightly burned out on these types of beers lately. If I had rated this a year or two ago, it could have been a perfect score, I think.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2016
at 20:56
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2014 bottle. Thanks Roger.
This was poured into a tulip, why, well, because I broke one of my snifters today and I’m an asshole.
Here’s the rest;
The appearance was a black color with a slim finger-ed filmy head that quickly dissipated to leave barely nothing for lacing.
The aroma makes up for lack of show in the aroma to allow a stellar amount of sweet caramel, light toffee, subtle tobacco, eloquent vanilla, sweet boozy/alcohol (almost bourbon-esque sort of underlying aroma).
The taste enables a sweet to glossy slide of the malts just riding all along my tongue in a sticky sort of sweet fashion. Definitely a sweet sticky aftertaste of the malts running into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body as it’s a good sipper. Carbonation runs extremely light but I’m assuming that’s because of the age of the bottle, so no worries.
Overall, English Barleywine, oh hell yeah! Definitely fits the style and am extremely glad I finally got to try this.
This was poured into a tulip, why, well, because I broke one of my snifters today and I’m an asshole.
Here’s the rest;
The appearance was a black color with a slim finger-ed filmy head that quickly dissipated to leave barely nothing for lacing.
The aroma makes up for lack of show in the aroma to allow a stellar amount of sweet caramel, light toffee, subtle tobacco, eloquent vanilla, sweet boozy/alcohol (almost bourbon-esque sort of underlying aroma).
The taste enables a sweet to glossy slide of the malts just riding all along my tongue in a sticky sort of sweet fashion. Definitely a sweet sticky aftertaste of the malts running into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body as it’s a good sipper. Carbonation runs extremely light but I’m assuming that’s because of the age of the bottle, so no worries.
Overall, English Barleywine, oh hell yeah! Definitely fits the style and am extremely glad I finally got to try this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 20:32
8/10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2015
at 01:05
10/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:59
10/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:59
10/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:59
10/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:59
10/10
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:59