Framinghammer - Copper & Kings Brandy Barrel-Aged
Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Baltic Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.56
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours black with a small brown head. Aromas of dark fruits, brandy, vanilla, fudge, chocolate. Taste has brandy, vanilla, fudge, dark fruits, toffee, chocolate, malt, light roast.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 2016 cellared bottle deep brown black no head nice lacing. Aromas cocoa sugar light barrel and alcohol. Taste is nice smooth balanced chocolate coca brandy and a nice finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle pours black with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is dark chocolate, wood, brandy, roast, dark fruit. Medium body, roast, cocoa, nice sweetness, wood, boozy finish, very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
500 ml bottle shared by Willrunforbeer, for his 400th Massachusetts state rating! Deep, deep brown in color, no head. Aroma is deep roast, subtle chocolate, subtle Brandy, undertone of Portuguese port wine.
The flavor really reminds me of a very old port wine I had many, many years ago in Portugal (year 2000).
No hop profile is found here. The mouthfeel is a tad flat and maybe on the thin side but still... This is very solid but will say the barrel is on the moderate side and more like a brandy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
200th MA rating! Pours a near-black from a bottle. Caramel, raisin and oak aromas, throw in some chocolate, maybe a little hint of cola in the mouth. Amazing balance, very smooth, flavors have a hard to nail down progression that you want to focus on with every sip, but you still can’t quite get it. Very good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Colonial Spirits. Dark brown with ruby at the edges and a smallish bubbly khaki head that dissipates quickly. Caramel and chocolate behind a huge vinous fruity aroma with a touch of oak. Tasty! Chocolate and toffee with a fruity vinous flavor melded to bits of warming alcohol and a faint earthy hopiness. Damn that is a tasty sipper right there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 4/23/16.
Fleeting tan head tops a dark ebony-mahogany liquid with light clarity on the edges.
Tell-tale candy-like port barrel notes with sweet fig and prune. Gets more chocolatey, as the Framinghammers do, with growing vanilla and roast. Not terribly boozey relative to its size, with very little hop notes.
The port gives this a much fruitier, vinous character as opposed to the spicy, more dry and woody bourbon barrel version. Still on the dry side, of course, with pleasant, moderate tannin adding body in concert with the malty texture. Low carbonation but appropriate, with little alcohol and no flaws. Excellent beers, the bourbon and brandy variants, and it definitely comes down to your preference of barrel treatment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours mahogany tinged black into a shaker. Mocha head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Sweet brandy aromas. Thick with chocolate and vanilla upfront turning to dry oak and brandy in the hot alcohol soaked pit fruit finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2 oz pour on draft at Jack’s Abby. Consumed on 4/21/2016. Dark brownish black with tan head. Aromas of brandy, dark fruit, dark chocolate, oak. Tastes of brandy, dark fruit, oak, dark chocolate. Medium-full body with a dry finish. Good though I liked the Cordon Rouge version better.