Embrasse Peated Oak Aged (Whiskey-Cask)
De Dochter van de Korenaar in Baarle-Hertog, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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Wrapped bottle, striped red paper with sticker "Peated whiskey cask" on the lower right end of the "logo" .
An 9% ABV beer in which the fermented sugars were all obtained from malt (20 degrees Plato).
A generous dose of hops and a long maturation time makes this beer best of the best.
This beer is bottle conditioned and will go through taste evolution during many years.
Selected by the brewer from his best peated whisky casks. Matured for a quarter of a year.
Winner of the Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) consumer prize 2011.
An 9% ABV beer in which the fermented sugars were all obtained from malt (20 degrees Plato).
A generous dose of hops and a long maturation time makes this beer best of the best.
This beer is bottle conditioned and will go through taste evolution during many years.
Selected by the brewer from his best peated whisky casks. Matured for a quarter of a year.
Winner of the Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) consumer prize 2011.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
660 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 5/2015. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy very dark brown color with a 2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge raisin, plum, fig, date, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, cocoa, peat smoke, dark bread, toasted oak, leather, vanilla, pepper, light nuttiness, and oak/toasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with awesome complexity and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity/spicy yeast, and scotch barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of huge raisin, plum, fig, date, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, peat smoke, cocoa, dark bread, toasted oak, leather, vanilla, pepper, brine, light nuttiness, and oak/toasted earthiness. Fair amount of yeast/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes if raisin, plum, fig, date, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, peat smoke, cocoa, leather, pepper, brine, and oak/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity/spicy yeast, and scotch barrel flavors; with a great malt/oak/spiciness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/saline, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic scotch barrel aged Belgian strong dark ale. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity/spicy yeast, and scotch barrel flavors; and very smooth and easy to sip on for the big ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2015
at 22:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. #15408. A slow gusher, pouring an almost clear body, amber in color and with a dense, fingerthick light beige colored head. Lacings. The aroma has quite a lot of peat, with dried fruits and a roasted touch. Some chocolate notes. There’s a pleasant bitterness in the flavor, dealing easily with the malty sweetness. Peat, dried figs and a peated, roasted maltyness in the flavor. Full body and a nice carbonation level. Some warmth. Lasting finish with lots of peat. A nice one indeed, tasteful too, but I prefer the regular edition. Might be because I’m not very fond of peat, but I don’t think so as I normally prefer the regular edition. 141228
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2014
at 13:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival 2013. Hazy deep brown liquid with small light brown head. Aroma of smoke, roasted malt, peat, oak, bread and caramel. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of smoke, chocolate and oak. Medium to full bodied with low to medium carbonation. Nice and smokey.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2013
at 11:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Brown colour with an off-white head with good lacework and medium lasting. Aroma has notes of toasted malts, peat, whisky and candy sugar. Flavor is very compley mainly dominated by peat and whisky, some wood notes and red fruits are present, toasted with notes of candy sugar. The final is alcoholic with whisky hints.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2013
at 13:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled, Feb 2013. Slight hazy ruby color, medium frothy light brown head. Aroma of soft peat, some red fruit, some dark malts, slight spicy yeast. There’s some sweet note that softens the peat, which is good for me. In taste it’s more dry, again quite some peat, some nutty tones. Nicely balanced as always from de Dochter vd Korenaar as the peat usually will overpower a beer completely. Here it does dry out the beer quite a lot, but there’s relatively a lot of flavor and aroma of the base beer left. A wonderful base beer that blends extremely well with all these barrels. Peat is not my favorite, preferred the blended oak for that, but it’s a lovely beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Embrasse Aged In Peated Islay Whiskey Barrels on 19 Feb 2021 at 23:26 - Score: 7. Original review text: Bakkie turf --- Beer merged from original tick of Embrasse Aged In Whiskey Barrels (2010) on 24 Feb 2021 at 22:20 - Score: 8. Original review text: Maar dan de 2020 versie? Gewoon bij de mitra vandaan, samen met de rode peated variant. Zelden meegemaakt dat ik op UT niet echt een passende entry kan vinden. Of het zou de blended oak aged moeten zijn, maar dat staat nergens
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2013
at 13:08