Cuvée de Grâce 2021
Revolution Brewing Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.22
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The Cuvée de Grâce Blend
Cuvée de Grâce is a meticulously crafted blend of 36 oak barrels. And for the first time, we had access to rum barrels that came to us after use as bourbon finishing barrels. As always, each barrel is tasted, tested, and profiled to offer its most compelling self to the final product. Blends are an alamgamation of so many factors that each one is unique and never to be replicated. The 2021 edition of Cuvée de Gráce features these incredible components:
11 barrels of Deth's Tar, sweet component – Fudgy, ridiculously aromatic with vanilla and marshmallow notes, and quite nearly thicker than our love for Oatmeal Stout. Every bit of this component comes from rum barrels.
7 barrels of Ryeway to Heaven, dry component – This exceedingly dry Ryeway provides the delicate balance and intriguing spice to complement the sweeter elements in the blend. Six of these are from bourbon barrels, and one is a rum barrel.
14 barrels of Straight Jacket, sweet component – This isn’t quite V.S.O.J. Not enough time on it for that. Let’s call it V.S.O.Jr. The sweet toffee and caramel notes are everything you want from an English Barleywine and more. Eight of these barrels are bourbon, and six are rum.
2 barrels of Thundertaker – We kept a few barrels from the 2020 Deep Wood kickoff, and we’re glad we did. The harmony between Canadian rye and chocolatey stout notes give just the right accent.
2 barrels of Ryeway to Heaven/Straight Jacket blend – Mostly Ryeway topped off with a bit of Barleywine to fill volume. The perfect midpoint between our Ryeway and Straight Jacket components.
Cuvée de Grâce is a meticulously crafted blend of 36 oak barrels. And for the first time, we had access to rum barrels that came to us after use as bourbon finishing barrels. As always, each barrel is tasted, tested, and profiled to offer its most compelling self to the final product. Blends are an alamgamation of so many factors that each one is unique and never to be replicated. The 2021 edition of Cuvée de Gráce features these incredible components:
11 barrels of Deth's Tar, sweet component – Fudgy, ridiculously aromatic with vanilla and marshmallow notes, and quite nearly thicker than our love for Oatmeal Stout. Every bit of this component comes from rum barrels.
7 barrels of Ryeway to Heaven, dry component – This exceedingly dry Ryeway provides the delicate balance and intriguing spice to complement the sweeter elements in the blend. Six of these are from bourbon barrels, and one is a rum barrel.
14 barrels of Straight Jacket, sweet component – This isn’t quite V.S.O.J. Not enough time on it for that. Let’s call it V.S.O.Jr. The sweet toffee and caramel notes are everything you want from an English Barleywine and more. Eight of these barrels are bourbon, and six are rum.
2 barrels of Thundertaker – We kept a few barrels from the 2020 Deep Wood kickoff, and we’re glad we did. The harmony between Canadian rye and chocolatey stout notes give just the right accent.
2 barrels of Ryeway to Heaven/Straight Jacket blend – Mostly Ryeway topped off with a bit of Barleywine to fill volume. The perfect midpoint between our Ryeway and Straight Jacket components.
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8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can from a friend. Thanks for the hookup Gary! Pours a deep brown to black with a finger of beige head that dissipates. Lots of bourbon notes on the nose with milk chocolate, toffee, apricot, vanilla and plum aromas. Lots of oak and whiskey and bourbon on the palate. Smooth with great barrel character and depth. Some light peppery rye notes that linger on the finish. Wonderfully complex but balanced. Great stuff.
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on 05 Sep 2021
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