Bobasa
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Rotating|
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6.81
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Barrel-Aged Smoked Bière de Garde
BOBASA is a blend of barrel-aged smoked ales. Young, smoked Bière de Garde is blended with 1- and 2-year-old vintages aged in white wine barrels.
BOBASA is a blend of barrel-aged smoked ales. Young, smoked Bière de Garde is blended with 1- and 2-year-old vintages aged in white wine barrels.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample during the "Micah's Downstairs Reopening" tasting on 03/02/2018. Cloudy copper color with a medium off-white head that recedes quickly to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Smokey, fruity and floral aroma. Medium body with flavors of smoked malt, vinous oak, fruit and slight funk. The finish is smokey and oaky with a fruity aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2018
at 17:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
At the source: pours copper with white head. Aroma is peaty, woody and a bit funky. Taste is smoky and lightly funky. Nice woody flavors. Powerful with a lingering wood smoked aftertaste.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2017
at 15:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled at LIBF2017. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours dark, copper amber. Unclear. No real head, smell is mild smokey. Bit sour. Taste is smokey, sour, rich maltyness. OK . Too smokey for me.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2017
at 13:01
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml. bottle sampled @ LIBF 2017. Thank you for sharing RB-InBev Belgian crew! Dark orange fruity, little white head. Nose is weird smoked, sour, charred oak & fruit. Taste is puckering with fun smoke, campfire, smoked meat, puckering, roasted barrel, low fruit. Easy basic smoked sour but a very pleasant experience. Nicely done. Great smoke profile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2017
at 13:16
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Oxbow Bobasa (by Oxbow Brewing Company):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
5/VI/17 - sample from 75cl bottle @ LIBF 2017 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2017-730) Thanks to the Belgian RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Cloudy murky brownish to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very sourish, cow fodder, stable, fruity touch, bit oxidized. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, tannins, lemon juice, bit floral. Aftertaste: bitter touch, fruity, some citrus, grapefruit, very acidic finish. More a sour than a bière de garde, for sure...
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
5/VI/17 - sample from 75cl bottle @ LIBF 2017 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2017-730) Thanks to the Belgian RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Cloudy murky brownish to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very sourish, cow fodder, stable, fruity touch, bit oxidized. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, tannins, lemon juice, bit floral. Aftertaste: bitter touch, fruity, some citrus, grapefruit, very acidic finish. More a sour than a bière de garde, for sure...
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2017
at 17:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle sample @ LIBF’17, thanks to the RB-InBev Belgian crew for the share. Orange, col fin blanc. Arôme au nez fleuri avec encore des effluves assez douce rappelant le miel, un peu fleuri et finement houblonné, je ne détecte pas l’effet fumé ou alors cela vient de l’effet que j’attribue à un côté mielleux. Palais est finement funk, touche de douceur organique, petite aigreur persistant en fin de bouche, boisé, fine amertume au fini assez sec et un effet un peu d’herbes de montagnes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2017
at 16:44
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Murky light brown colour with no head. Aroma and flavour are sour funky and smokey. There’s a barbecue meat element Strange mix of flavours.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2017
at 10:01
7/10
Tried
on 04 Jun 2017
at 18:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a bit hazy amber orange, small off-white head dissipates fairly quickly, decent lacing. Aroma is smoky indeed, juniper and lemon, a bit of tart oaky funk, herbs. Flavor is light plus tart, medium smoke, quite an interesting flavor combination. I expect this would not be loved by the masses, but I am enjoying it. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2017
at 20:29