Wood Werks Barrel Series #3: Imperial Rye Brown
Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.60
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
355ml bottle from Drinkstore in Dublin, Ireland. Bottled July 2018. Pours deep black with a beige head. Aromas & tastes of dark cherries, toffee, rye, oak, vanilla, caramel, bread & malt. Medium body. Smooth finish with little sign of the high alcohol content. Outstanding
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Almost black beer, a head is medium and beige. Aroma has caramel maltyness, vanilla, some bourbon, dried fruitness, prune, sophisticated. Taste has caramel, dried fruits, vanilla, wood, raisin. Medium+ bodied, smooth. Very interesting beer, stong barreling, but it's so balanced.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle picked up from Biervana, München and consumed at Camping Resort Zugspitze, Grainau, Nr Garmisch Partenkirchen, Wednesday 10th June 2020, cooking Pastitsio and listening to Idles - Brutalism. Pours dark reddy brown, actually maybe not reddy at all just dark brown with light tan head. Big malty, rich beer, fruity, tastes like a big Barley Wine to me. Wow I knocked this back quite quickly not for one minute realising that it's 12.6%. It's a strong rich beer, plenty of whisky kicking about. Good but never really hooked me in.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours opaque dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: caramel malts, toffee, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon. Taste: moderate to heavy sweet, bourbon overload, also notes of vanilla, toffee, spicy rye, oak. Full body, warming boozy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 355 ml, courtesy of Miro B. Shared with him and Max. Dark brown, beige head. Chocolate, maple, nutty, sweet, barrel, whiskey. Medium bodied. Well rounded.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear chestnut, medium tan creamy head, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, toffee, vanilla. Flavor is pretty sweet, super overt bourbon, vanilla, toasted toffee, some heat and rye spice. Full body.
Aroma and flavor are sweet, malt, cherries, booze, rye, spicy. Overall: very good.
Just as good as I remember it, opening this baby up whiskey shoots into your nose, full bodied and sweet sweet whiskey notes. No booze, just flavor. I wish this was the default brown ale flavor but I imagine barrels are expensive! So much rye vanilla note
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Crescent Moon, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is intense, with heaps of rye whiskey barrels, earthy notes and caramel bready malt. Flavour is along the same lines, with a very assertive flavour profile, with whiskey barrels, spicy rye and caramel. Bordering on brutal, but the flavours are quite nice and certainly cohesive. Very good.