Bourbon Street Old Fashioned
Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.84
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Bourbon barrel aged with oranges and cherries.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On draft at the Great American Beer Festival 2024. Pours a clear dark amber with an ecru head. Aroma of toffee. Flavors are sweet with some barrel notes.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Oct 2024
at 21:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 4/6/2019. Pours crystal clear medium orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big tangerine, lemon, cherry, berries, orange peel/zest, ginger, clove, cinnamon, pepper, wood, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, oak, and toasted bread; with light notes of caramel, toffee, coconut, and herbal earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruit, citrus, spices, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, lemon, cherry, berries, orange peel/zest, ginger, clove, cinnamon, pepper, wood, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, oak, and toasted bread; with light notes of caramel, toffee, coconut, and herbal earthiness. Mild herbal/zesty bitterness, bourbon/oak spiciness, and fruit tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, lemon, cherry, berries, orange peel/zest, ginger, clove, cinnamon, pepper, wood, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, oak, toasted bread, light toffee/coconut, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit, citrus, spices, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate bourbon barrel flavors; with a nice malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness and fruit tartness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/tannic/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 9.25%, with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent fruited/spiced strong ale style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit, citrus, spices, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate bourbon barrel flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the big ABV; with the mildly bitter/spicy/drying finish. Very impressed, tastes just like the cocktail inspiration. Perfectly balanced vibrant fruit/citrus/spice and malt sweetness; not a ton of barrel, but definitely adequate. A very enjoyable offering, and well made experimental style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2018
at 01:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
Good in the sense it achieves what it sets out to do, mainly taste a lot like an Old Fashioned. As a beer, though...very sweet, almost cloy thanks to the bittering element and the cherries, with mild citrus notes perched atop a vast sea of bourbon. Herbs and vanilla mesh with a heavily oaked fade. Again, it does taste like an old fashioned, but nothing like a beer, which makes me wonder the point of the whole thing. Eh.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2018
at 01:21