BBP (Bourbon Barrel Porter)
(has 2 batches)
AleWerks Brewing Company in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.73
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Brewed with unrefined Rapadou sugar and aged in bourbon whiskey barrels.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours thick, syrupy, dark, and nearly headless. Rich malty aroma with cocoa, dark fruits, molasses, light vanilla, some burnt malt, and a hot whiskey note. Body is as full as it gets. Super smooth, too. Flavor does not disappoint. Dark fruit, roasty malt, chocolate, light burnt malt, molasses, a touch of smoke, vanilla, wood, and a fine, lingering, bourbon finish. Quite a porter. Strong porter is an odd style to me but I wouldn’t label it a imperial stout either. Whatever it’s called- it’s mighty fine.
Tried
on 07 Oct 2010
at 17:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bomber split. Opaque black, with some toffee-brown edges. Thin, oily head. Very mellow carbonation, with lots of oaky tones. Rich caramel. Well balanced, rich but still quite easy to drink. Awesome vanilla-chocolate oak aroma. Smooth, smoky and sweet.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2010
at 23:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Marks for Appearance are an average, as beer was sampled in weak artificial light after dark. Sweet, vanilla-like aromas in the nose, fresh oak. In fact, a bit of a vanilla overload. Taste is better balanced, with sweetness, alcohol and some (roasted) bitterness. Burning MF, very high alcoholburn, bit spritzy. A wee bit too much Bourbon, an little underdone on the Porter...
Tried
on 03 Jul 2010
at 02:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bourbon dominated nose. Motor oil black, with a thin dissipating yellow head. Very full bodied and thick. Molasses flavor with very green grassy hoppy accents. Currant and cherry at midpalate. Plum skin and bark finish. Excellent transitions, very dynamic and complex. Alcohol quite obvious. Not overdone with the bourbon, but still hot. A bit of a chore to drink, but definitely not boring. A fun sipper.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2010
at 18:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Poured black, opaque around the edges, with a thin brown head that dissipated to a thin film around the edges. Aroma had sweet roasted malts with undertones of vanilla and bourbon. Flavor began with strong roasted malts and the flavor becomes sweeter with notes of bourbon and vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2010
at 14:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep dark brown coloured body with a fast-dying tan head. Aroma of alcohol, pit fruits, roasted malt, coffee, oak, vanilla and some nice bourbon! Full-bodied; Deep strong pungent flavours of malt and oak are very noticeable with a good toffee and caramel sweetness that almost dominates the beer. Aftertaste shows some dry oak flavours, bourbon, alcohol and a very solid complexity. Overall, a very nice and special beer - showing all of the intricacies of the style with a good character and quite a bit of complexity. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, DC on 13-May-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 25-May-2010. Bottle #1047 from the 2010 batch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2010
at 19:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle number 1472/2009 thanks to a trade with dkachur. Pours with a tan head and a dark brown body. Aroma of wood, alcohol and some spiciness. Taste is maple, ash, oak, chocolate and barrel. Light bubbles. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2009
at 18:59
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber pours out mahogany with lasting tan head and some lacing to boot. The aroma is toasty, roasty, caramel, toffee, some oak, a snoot full of hot bourbon and molasses. What a wonderful aroma with the varied roasty notes mixing seamlessly with the solid barrel odors. The taste is much the same with toasted toffee, roasty caramel, creamy caramel and molasses. Near the finish assertive bourbon and oak notes mix in and take this into the after taste. Very well done with a pleasing balance of beer and barrel notes being achieved.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2009
at 19:10
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
October ‘09 O-Town Throwdown, courtesy of Daknole. bottle #1489 Pours dark brown beige head. Aroma of bourbon, barrel, chocolate malt/roast. Flavor, rather boozy, bourbon, chocolate malts, hints of roast, medium mouthfeel, hints of vanilla Thick grainy palate, chocolate finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2009
at 19:18