Bourbon Cru
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Rotating|
Score
7.52
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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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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
(On Tap) Clear brown with ruby hints and a small white head. Aroma is bourbon and esters. Excellent palate - medium bodied with bright and mouthfilling carbonation. Taste is bourbon, vanilla, oak and alcohol. Very impressive beer, bourbon dominated.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 May 2015
at 08:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at the RBWG hotel share
Clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is malty and woody. Taste is caramel and bourbon
Nice
Clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is malty and woody. Taste is caramel and bourbon
Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2015
at 17:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared late night during RBWG 2015. Pours clear russet with a creamy off-white head. The nose has some tangerine, marmalade, grainy pale bread. Big sweet flavor with vanilla cake, more tangerine, hay. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Warming finish with rich, ripe citrus fruits, melon, tangerine. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 01:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle - Sweet bourbon notes and light dark fruit. Clear Amber with a decent beige head. Bourbon notes, dark fruit and booze on the throat. Not enough quad, too much bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2015
at 22:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This brew pours a dark reddish-mahogany color with a medium dense light beige head that recedes gradually. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of malt, caramel and dark fruit. Full-bodied with flavors of dark fruit, earthy yeast and caramel malt. Subtle oaky bourbon in the background. The finish is oaky vanilla and dark fruit. Above average overall.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2014
at 19:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2-4 ounce bottle pour at SAVOR’s Friday night session during the Cigar City and Hardywood salon. Pours dark brown with off-white head. Aromas of bourbon, dark fruit, caramel. Tasting notes of bourbon, dark fruit, caramel, toffee. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2014
at 16:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bourbon is well balanced here with some light vanilla notes. Some sweet plum and light smoke. Pretty full palate. Pours cloudy maroon with good head and lacing and soft carbonation. Some wood in here, finishes with light sweetness. Cask at Churchkey.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 May 2014
at 09:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On cask at ChurchKey DC. Pours a hazy dark copper with an ecru head. Intense aroma of plump raisins and caramel. Flavors of vanilla, oak and bourbon. Smooth, boozy finish. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 May 2014
at 15:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Ruby red brown color, small tan head. Aroma of booze, vanilla, orange peel. Taste is whiskey, caramel, citrus. Big and boozy.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Apr 2013
at 17:57
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Burnt amber. Nose is very yeasty and bready with some figs and residual sugars. Taste is uber sweet with some oaky vanilla notes but is overall just too sweet. Tastes more like an old ale than a quad. It’s good but very forgettable.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2013
at 20:37