Big Griz
Perrin Brewing Company in Comstock Park, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.51
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Benzai (24515) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home thanks to Johnny as a birthday gift. Dark brown to black color, virtually no head. Aroma and flavor is malts, soft roast, brown malts, bourbon lightly, decently bitter. A bit thin texture but otherwise quite nice. Solid.
Weihenweizen (7385) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a glass. Clear medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is nuts, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is but, oak, and bourbon.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to mikem409: Poured a brown red with tan. Aroma is super malty and bourbon. Taste is liquor bourbon malty. Vanilla and coffee.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Thanks Mike.
Poured into a snifter, the appearance was a rugged dark brown color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that settled at a nice pace. Light lace slid.
The aroma had a huge amount of bourbon soaked malts, smooth and sweet with the woody dryness, vanilla, milk chocolate, light sweet cracker, sly toast, subtle coffee bean, sly maple syrup sweetness and then it coughs up a little bit of smoke at the very end.
The flavor wrapped tightly the prior mentioned aromas to encase the aftertaste with smooth clean sweetness. Finish was malty and woody dry.
The palate was medium bodied generating a good sipping quality about it. A quality to lead many hardened beer geeks into cherishing the extra nuances of the feel - how it trickles along your tongue. The carbonation felt good and the ABV definitely reflected the brewer’s intent.
Overall, did I really just talk like that? Well, I probably didn’t need to sound the way I just did, but if anything - yes, grab a bottle of this and ponder if you will, as I will go back to sitting in my easy chair and continue drinking the crappy Magic Hat that I sometimes exposed myself to. But as for this beer, yes, I will remember you always.
superspak (10160) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 5/2016. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, light coffee/dark fruit, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Some slight booziness as well. Taste of huge caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, light coffee/dark fruit, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness. Light roasted bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and oak spiciness balance; and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and lightly slick/silky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish; with slight booziness. Overall this is an incredible imperial brown ale! All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. This was a lot more barrel forward and a bit more roasty on the malt character than the Lil’ Griz. A highly enjoyable offering.
flatmatt (2380) reviewed Big Griz from Perrin Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
22 oz bottle. Pours deep red brown with a light tan head. Bourbon aroma with cocoa, roasty, molasses. Nice smooth bourbon, cocoa, molasses flavors, breakfast cereal maltiness. Definitely a lot of boozy bourbon in here; it’s well done and I really like it.