Bourbon Nut Pie
Black Raven Brewing in Redmond, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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Also known as: Nutty Spice Caramel Ale
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want, please. Caramel Ale? Not a real thing. What you really, really want is a balanced ale driven by caramel malts, and torch toasted turbinado sugar with a low hop profile aged in bourbon barrels for a year. Oh, the Nutty Spice thing? Well after tasting the beer from the barrel, we decided that spicy nuts and nutty spices would be a good complement. So we added walnuts, pecans, almonds, vanilla, mace blades, fresh East African nutmeg and East African cinnamon. The result is a rounded beer that balances the bite of burnt sugar and oak with a velvet mouthfeel, tingly spices on a mélange of nuts. I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig. Ah.
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want, please. Caramel Ale? Not a real thing. What you really, really want is a balanced ale driven by caramel malts, and torch toasted turbinado sugar with a low hop profile aged in bourbon barrels for a year. Oh, the Nutty Spice thing? Well after tasting the beer from the barrel, we decided that spicy nuts and nutty spices would be a good complement. So we added walnuts, pecans, almonds, vanilla, mace blades, fresh East African nutmeg and East African cinnamon. The result is a rounded beer that balances the bite of burnt sugar and oak with a velvet mouthfeel, tingly spices on a mélange of nuts. I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig. Ah.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
50th Black Raven rate! Better celebrate with bourbon and pie. And nachos of course. 14 oz pour at the brewery. A dark reddish brown with almost no head. Aroma is sweet and breast malt with a calm bourbon. Thick body, sweet dough malt, intense vanilla and bourbon. Late palate of a very true walnut, which is awesome. I missed their walnut barleywine from years passed, and have been hoping for a return, but if it never does, this is a solid consolation. I thought this beer would be too sweet. It tries to be, but there is way to much flavor going on for it to bother me. A fantastic warming feel to this beer. A dangerously delicious bourbon dessert beer here. Very nice.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2016
at 19:10