Barley Bochet
Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) in Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania 🇱🇹
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Honey Regular|
Score
6.89
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Bochet is a French word for caramelised honey mead. Technically it resembles traditional Lithuanian Keptinis beer style, that is brewed by baking your mash in an oven until it darkens and caramelises. In this case the same happens with honey.
To make this barley Bochet we used 300 kilograms of honey. The honey was boiled until it reached its liquid state and we did not stop there. We continued boiling it until it started bubbling, black smoke appeared and its volume increased 8 times. It started looking like tar but had a pleasant smell of smoky honey and caramel. At the end of the caramelising process the honey reached 125 degrees Celsius. Further caramelisation was prevented by diluting it with some pale malt wort that we have prepared in advance. No hops or other spices were used in the boiling process. Wort gravity was so high that the fermentation could only be completed by champagne yeast.
This tough work was awarded by the final result – a gently carbonised, sweet barley and honey mead hybrid. We used only light honey and pale malts but caramelisation turned it into brown / deep amber colour beverage. On the nose it carries some beeswax notes and flowery aromas. In the taste it has some light acidity from champagne yeast fermentation, and some deep toffee notes. Due to its full body and sweetness, serious ABV is well masked under the bold taste.
EBC: 80
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle hazy dark golden colour with no head.Aroma of honey and malt sweet and warming mouth feels nice and sweet finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Caramel, barley aromas. Brown to red color, no head. Little bitterness and sweetness. Bit alcohol. Bit dry and sticky body.
A hybrid honey mead/beer. Body of a beer with a sweet full body of honey. Amber color, medium thickness. Unique but overall middling. Hopcult dresden
Marduk (26467) ticked Barley Bochet from Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) 5 years ago
Sweet, honey, malty, alcohol, woody, toffee, grapes
mart (27297) ticked Barley Bochet from Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) 5 years ago
Magis, mõru, hapu, väga marjane, siirup, kuiv. Ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Smell-medium strong, malt, caramel, a tiny bit of roast. Foam- medium-thick, malt, year, alcohol, acidic tones, but minimal. The Head is tiny, white brown and goes away instantly. Appearance-brewer bottle cap, simple enough bottle. Semi-clear ruby color seems clear, but cant see-through, maybe because quite dark. From - snifter Taste - malt, sweetness, caramel, faint acidic tones, and alcohol. Actually very tasty, very malty and quite alcoholic, even if alcohol is tamed down. Some honey tones. Good.
Bybeer (15899) ticked Barley Bochet from Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) 6 years ago
10й в проихибиции. Спасибо Constantine и Alexander G. Что направили. Сам мед тяжеловат и кисловат...3,5 ни вашим не нашим
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tap. Clear brown-amber color with tiny grey bubbles on top. Aroma is earthy, honey and beeswax, some ethanol, but not too much. Taste is earthy, phenols, beeswax honey, some plasticy candy. Oily mouthfeel with a tiny bit of carbonation. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at Frisches Bier. Dark Amber, no head. Toast and honey nose, medium full body, heavy honey and jam, berries, dry, good balance, not overly sweet, quite drinkable winter warmer.