Barrel-Aged Edition: Bourbon Porter
Big Rock Brewery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.04
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty woody bourbon chocolate aroma. Roasted malty woody bourbon chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty woody bourbon chocolate finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Big Rock Urban. Dark brown, with a medium, caramel-coloured head. The aroma is fairly strong on the bourbon, with some sweeter caramel notes. Full body, quite soft with a lot of nice dark sugars. Light fruitiness, gentle molasses and quite a bit of bourbon. The lack of roast distinguishes it from an imperial stout and to be honest I like that about this beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - Chocolate, toffee and nice bourbon notes. Deep jet brown with a small light brown head. Dark roast, chocolate and nice light bourbon notes. Balanced, lots of cocoa and quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
650ml bottle at Matt’s. Pours deep brown with a tan head. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla. Taste is toffee, caramel, vanilla, bourbon notes. Vanilla, bourbon, roasted malt aftertaste. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tasting at Matt’s
Dark brown color. Aroma of bourbon, tobacco, meat, Sriracha, spices. Lean mouthfeel, not too thick, not too sweet; good dark malts and caramel, moderate bourbon taste, a bit boozy.
Not too bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
650mL bottle, pours a reddish deep dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out lots of dark fruits, light bourbon, and light toasted malt. Flavour brings out a nice bourbon quality upfront, followed by some dark fruit and caramel. Not especially robust, but it's well-constructed. Nicely done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Well few-ackk, late friday night and this stumbles outta tha fridge. I don’t give Big Rock too much credit as they are one of those boring microbrweries that might be good with mediocre wings to beat a hangover but again, like always, you’re never buying a first-class ticket from anywhere to get to their brewpub to try the stuff. But I’m feeling sentimental what with Youtube going on with Prince videos and me regretting not having done the same for dear Prince during his daylight hours (and so few days we get do decide...alas). I would have gladly told the job of the moment "fuck you, Prince is playing in City X, I’m gonna go see him play before he expires" but you rarely know when that show would be the last... so you drink. It’s 1am and the sun is still around the horizon, a figment of that God Damned Arctic Circle the fookin’ geogramaphamaphamers be dun talkin’ aboot. Little head in fact, a dark brown -black body for appearance. The aroma is motor oil from an ’85 Camaro that has been driven from Bella Coola back to Kelowna, ho lee fook. Hints of Purdy’s chocolates and weak coffe from Timmy Ho’s, with just a hint of decent marijuana oil. The flavour is an oily mess of molasses and sour coffee beans, a messed up liqueur like you were fishing around in your parent’s liquor cabinet for something potent and found their decade old bottle of Tia Maria. Medium finish. This stuff is just too sugary and strong, again that finesse thang, it’s missing and just comes off as a jumble of coffee syrup and booze. For my money I may as well just buy a bottle of Kahlua, chicken sliders at Big Rock be damned. Eh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a 22 oz bottle. Pours murky cola brown with an ecru head. Bourbon nose. Flavors of oak, licorice and bourbon. Rich, bitter roast finish. By far the best beer from Alberta I have had to date.