Dankwood
(has 1 batch)
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Quadruple Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.52
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Imperial Red IPA Aged in Bourbon Barrels
What do you get when a big, bold imperial red IPA meets an oak bourbon barrel? A palate stunner that’ll send your senses spinning or, as we like to call it, Dankwood. Rich caramel notes emerge from the depths of the IPA, highlighting strong malt character while the bourbon barrel-aging develops the complexity. A dank, sticky and slightly sweet sipper, Dankwood is the perfect alchemy of wood and hops.
What do you get when a big, bold imperial red IPA meets an oak bourbon barrel? A palate stunner that’ll send your senses spinning or, as we like to call it, Dankwood. Rich caramel notes emerge from the depths of the IPA, highlighting strong malt character while the bourbon barrel-aging develops the complexity. A dank, sticky and slightly sweet sipper, Dankwood is the perfect alchemy of wood and hops.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Eltham Wines, Eltham. Reddish brown pour with a beige head. Aromas of vanilla, sweet spice, toffee, caramel, red fruit. Flavours of red apple, caramel, vanilla, bourbon, sweet spice. Sweet, boozy finish. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2018
at 09:15
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface leaving trailing sheets. Caramel, aged oak and dark pit fruit aromas. Sweet with hot oaked caramel and bitter resin upfront turning to vanilla and bitter earth in the lasting finish. It's been a while, but it reminds me of an naked arrogant bastard.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2018
at 22:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
$7.99 bottle from Gilly's, Rockville MD. Pours murky brown with a small beige head. Aroma is bitter grapefruit, resin, earth, alcohol. Flavor is resin, anise, earth, bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, grapefruit, caramel, wood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2018
at 22:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from La Riviera. Pours bright, clear, ruddy copper with a creamy/bubbly beige head. Aroma is sticky pine, roasty malt. Med + body. Flavor is pine, somewhat roasty malt (amberish), a touch of bourbon, some wood notes. It’s strongly flavored, but the flavors aren’t working well together for me. Interesting tho.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2018
at 20:20
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Usually the words Founders and dank score points with me. Combined let’s see. A four pack was purchased a week ago at the nearby Cellar venue. A chilled 12 oz bottle goes into my Buffalo Bayou tulip. Great delivery in my estimation, dark, dark red finished by a strong tawny brown head. The nose is inviting, cedar pine, citrus and toffee. But I am here for the taste. My goodness, it is mighty fine. Grain forward, caramel, oak, a little lemon. Moderately bitter. Alcohol, yes it is around. Danky, I get it. Right in my wheelhouse, good job Founders. 6/16/18
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2018
at 00:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Brewcraft at home. Translucent deep ruby brown copper pour with sticky fine white head. Aroma is what you’d expect from the description - vanilla bourbon wood, dank dank hops, big honey malt with a bit of rye spice? Very nice. Taste is huge bitter dank hops with a sharp resinous bite, vanilla, alcohol, wood, rye, and honey. Huge and boozy. Smooth rich palate. Delicious. Basically what it says on the tin - add a well executed version of it, as Founders always does. Would definitely get again. Had again July 3, 2017 - delicious. Like hoppy boozy marshmallow. Raised 4.0->4.1
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2018
at 15:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Beerhawk. A dark amber coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Malty, caramel, bourbon aroma. Tastes sweet, sticky, dank, boozy, bourbon, malty, caramel, slightly bitter finale. Very nice indeed, my kind of beer from one of my favourite breweries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2018
at 19:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ DØE - Ølfestival 2018 ] @ Lokomotivværkstedet, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark. [ As Founders Dankwood ].Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, malty, dark malt- red malt, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, oak - wood, vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, bourbon - vanilla, red fruit, red malt, pale malt, hoppy, light wood - oak. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180531] 8-3-8-3-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2018
at 09:45
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
12 oz bottle thanks to Uncle Doug. Aroma is coconut, toffee, wood, raisin, citrus, vanilla, earth, booze. Pours hazy brown with amber highlights and a one finger beige head with good retention and some lace. Taste is moderately bitter, moderately sweet with flavors matching the aroma; pithy bitterness lingers after the finish. Wow, I'm impressed. This is tasty AF. I'm usually skeptical about barrel aged IPAs, but this proves that it can be done, and with finesse to boot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2018
at 00:50