Hopped Bourbon Cask Ale
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Special|
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6.82
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An imperial red ale brewed using extra pale ale, rye crystal and crystal malts with a touch of wheat. A first for Innis & Gunn, the beer was transferred into first fill bourbon casks and then dry hopped with a blend of Ahtanum and Hallertau Hersbruker hops for maturation.
The dry hopping with impart an intense and distinctive hop aroma of orange, Turkish delight, dried cherries and lychees.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Red ale with a small head. Aroma and taste is fruity and rich and full of flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Very dark copper, with a large beige head. Aroma is fruity, dark sticky malts, very sweet malts, bready with hints if sweet barrel and Bourbon.. Finish is again quite sweet, hops are lost in the sticky, caramel, fruity malts. Actually reminds me alot of a doppelbock... An odd beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7, 3, 7, 3, 14, 3.4, Bottle at craig?s. Pours deep amber, nose is toffee, vanilla, caramel, taste is sweet, chewy, dry, wood.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Brown colour with brief, beige head. Malty, slightly spicy nose with notes of dried fruit, brown bread, caramel, wood, some chocolate and fruit cake. Malty, slightly spicy taste with chocolate, dried fruit, dark rye bread, caramel, oak wood, fruit cake, vanilla and a sweetish finish with low bitterness. Medium body, quite sweet. The hops seem to disappear in all the dark malt, but still a really tasty and well balanced beer. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Clear, dark brown colour with ruby glimmer and small to average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Fruity, hoppy aroma, hints of yellow apple, lychee, cherry, weak chocolately background, an even weaker Bourbon touch. Taste is sweet-ish, chocolately malty and fruity hoppy, diluted hints of cherry, orange flavoured chocolate, a touch of lychee; minimally dry, oaky and zesty finish, with a touch of orange peel, very subtle Bourbon flavours. Slightly watery texture.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Alkoholischer, mild hopfiger Antrunk. Leicht getreidig, oxidiertes Malz im Hintergrund. Dumpf süßlich malzig, eher trocken. moderat malzig. Nett. 9/10/9/9/8/9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle. A clear reddish brown beer with a mid-sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of reddish malt, medium sweet red fruits, some wood. Taste of red fruits, berries, caramel, spruce, sweet oak.
bb (18428) reviewed Hopped Bourbon Cask Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Mahogany beer with a tn head. Caramel and dark fruit aroma with bourbon and cherries. Caramel and light oak flavor with light toffee. Medium bodied. Caramel and light bourbon lingers with light dark fruit.