Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Bourbon Cru

Bourbon Cru

 

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Rotating
Score
7.51
ABV: 12.0% IBU: 18 Ticks: 42
Hardywood Bourbon Cru is brewed in the fashion of the abbey quadrupel, the grand cru of many of Belgium’s revered monastic breweries. Bourbon Cru displays a sunset orange hue with a substantial head and brilliant clarity after months of barrel ageing. The maturity and melding of flavors brought on by the freshly drained, half-decade old Virginia bourbon barrels from Fredericksburg’s A. Smith Bowman Distillery lends an extraordinary sense of harmony to Bourbon Cru. Almond toffee and oaky vanilla aromatics give way to dark cherries, raisins and mature whiskey. A bit of plum flavor is greeted by caramel overtones and an assertive yet incredibly rounded body and a lingering, bourbon-laced finish.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Beautiful firey red amber color. Beautiful sweet malty nose of raisins, plums, cherries, molasses and lots of bourbon and oak. It’s exactly what I expected. Malty mouth, that is off sweet, low carbonation, lots of character and honestly I generally feel there are too many high abv beers that are too sweet for my liking but in this case, I think the somewhat lack of sweetness holds back the beer. Still the abv never shows too much, not really warming and bourbon isn’t too pronounced at the end. It’s essentially a very quaffable beer. At 12% that is dangerous. I certainly like this a lot but it’s not a beer I’d fall in love with

Tried on 05 Dec 2019 at 10:47



8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg at the Barrel and Horn, Bromley. Copper coloured pour with a white head. Nose of toffee, bourbon, coconut, toffee apple, prunes,oak,varnish. Rich, vinous flavours of coconut toffee, treacle toffee, lick of bourbon, sweet tobacco, dates,toffee apple. Oodles of sweet warming alcohol in the finish. Exceptional brew.

Tried on 01 Jan 2019 at 14:35


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Brown-deep amber colored, medium beige creamy head. Aroma is of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, some alcohol notes. Taste is quite sweet, malty, caramel and toffee, some brown sugar, bit nutty, some fruity notes, vanilla and bourbon, some alcohol and warmth, medium bitterness. Full bodied, average carbonation, oily. Very good. Maybe a bit too alcoholic but not over the top.

Tried on 15 Sep 2018 at 20:52



8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle 750ml. corked @ The Shnoodlepip, London. [ As Hardywood Barrel Series Bourbon Cru ].Clear medium brown amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, caramel, laber larver, bourbon, alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel, bourbon, laber larver, bread, alcohol, bourbon - vanilla - sweet yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20160810] 8-3-8-4-17

Tried from Bottle on 11 Apr 2018 at 10:20


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 9

Pours rather clear, dark copper. Small white head fades instantly. Smell is bit of the barrel, but not overly intense. Taste is sharp, bit bourbon, oak. Basebeer seems very weak, as it doesnt stand up to the bourbon at all, and the bourbon isnt even that accessive. Rather thin body. Medium low carbo. Very drinkable, especially for the abv, but a bit weak to my expectations.

Tried on 08 Apr 2018 at 23:58


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Keg at Brewdog Soho. A clear nut brown coloured pour with a lasting fine beige head. Aroma is vanilla, rough oak, toasted brown sugars, cakey malts. Raisin loaf.. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, brown sugars, woody, bark, dried raisin, vanilla oak and spicy woody. Lingering oak tannin. Palate is semi sweet, little thin, medium bodied, spicy finish. Moderate to high carbonation. Lingering hot alcohol. Disappointed.

Tried on 30 Jun 2017 at 14:27


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit aroma with weak hints of bourbon. Sweetish malty woody bourbon caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish malty woody bourbon caramel and dark fruit finish.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2017 at 07:02


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle in cropredy 2016 day 3... Dark brown black... Thin tan... Soft sweet yeasty toffee fruit nose... Rich sweet fruit.. Large sweet yeasty toffee fruit.. Sweet toffee malts... Rich cake fruit Lightest Bourbon.. Its certainly not killing it.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2016 at 23:42