Bishop's Barrel #13
Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.51
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sample at Denver Rare Beer Tasting VIII on 10/07/2016. This beer is a clear dark ruby-brown color with a medium beige head that diminishes gradually. Partial rings of lacing. Aroma of bourbon, caramel malt and fruit. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, vanilla, malt and yeast. The finish is oaky vanilla, malt and bourbon. Good beer all around.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Rudyard’s. It pours clear rich ruby with a small beige head. The aroma is rich, sweet, big vanilla, bourbon, toasted coconut, toffee, vanilla fudge, resin, wood and candy. The taste is rich, slick, unctuous, boosty toffee, pine, resin, alcohol warmth, dried fruits, fruit cake, some spice, burnt cake and honeycomb. The finish is rich and warming. Full body and prickly carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Great fun. The aroma is pretty exceptional.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
12 ounce bottle into chalice, bottle on 3/9/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear deep ruby red/brown color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, molasses, toffee, raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, toasted oak, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast, bourbon barrel, and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of huge caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, molasses, toffee, raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, vanilla, bourbon, coconut, toasted oak, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light yeast and bourbon/oak tannic spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, molasses, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, coconut, dark fruit, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/earthy yeast, bourbon barrel, and dark/bready malt flavors; with nice malt/oak/spiciness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Touch of dryness from tannic bourbon/oak spice as well. Medium carbonation and full body; with a very smooth and creamy/silky/slick mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a mild warmth lingering after the finish; with zero barrel booziness. Overall this is an incredible barrel aged quadrupel style! All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/earthy yeast, bourbon barrel, and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. A really amazing offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Saint Arnold Rare Cellar Tasting. Pours a dark amber with beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong bourbon, caramel, wood, vanilla. Thick mouth, rich malt, caramel, bourbon, vanilla, very sweet, really enjoyed this.