Mighty Imperial Ale
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Strong Ale - American Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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My idea of a strong ale was brewed with loads of malt, hops, jaggery and a touch of manuka smoke.
It was fermented with a clean ale yeast to let the ingredients speak for themselves without getting interrupted by too many esters.
After all that it was aged for 5 months on American oak, then refermented in the bottle.
Cheers – Søren Eriksen – Brewer
Hops - Pacific Jade, Chinook
Malt - Pale Ale, Munich, Special B
Yeast - US-05
Other - Manuka Smoke, Jaggery (raw sugar) and American Oak
It was fermented with a clean ale yeast to let the ingredients speak for themselves without getting interrupted by too many esters.
After all that it was aged for 5 months on American oak, then refermented in the bottle.
Cheers – Søren Eriksen – Brewer
Hops - Pacific Jade, Chinook
Malt - Pale Ale, Munich, Special B
Yeast - US-05
Other - Manuka Smoke, Jaggery (raw sugar) and American Oak
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5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Beautiful Burgundy Body (hey that’s an alliteration!) and a nice foamy head on top though I’d surmise it would take some coaxing rather than coming out of the closet by itself. Aroma of lacquer and paint thinner, some hops, vague maltiness that’s sadly not bolstered too well by this beer’s situation. Flavour is murky swampwater of hazelnut and hops with an alcoholic finish. Just uncomfortable, not refreshing, which is too bad. But drinkable, how’mever.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2014
at 21:47
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl de Geers, no BB. Cuivrée, col fin blanc cassé laissant un filament doré au verre. Arôme offre ce bouquet typique de boisé-chêne sur un rétro-nasal de malté et un léger fumé. Palais offre une belle profondeur maltée avec une petite pointe de fumé et résiduel boisé accentué par un malté léger de caramel, pâle et toffee. Houblonné agrumes sur la fin laissant qcq pointes citronnées. Je note également un léger sucré rappelant la canne à sucre. Fini sec-boisé avec un niveau alcool qui commence à se faire ressentir.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Apr 2014
at 06:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark cream-coloured head over red-amber beer. Sweet-alcoholic, liqueurish and perfumed. Cheesy hints, strawberry. Bitterish, pine & resin, and a malt/syrupy underbuild. Again cheesy & fruity. Finish is sweet, if a tad astringent, with a flavour as from apricot liqueur. Quite well-bodied, very slick to nearly viscous/oily. Slight alcoholburn. Quite good barleywine, but it has a slight "beefed/pimped up" streak.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2014
at 11:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Yamaichi. Pretty red-orange with lace. Winy, smoky, caramel, gum ball nose. Sweet, very smoky, sugars, rum, booze, very bitter, vanilla and caramel. Fun. Sweet but balanced by smoke, booze, hops. Very flavorful, could probably be better in a year. A bit too boozy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2014
at 01:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours clear brown, no head. Didn’t know what to expect from this, so the smoke was a surprise! Nice woody aromas too. Stone fruit in the background. Taste brings it all together very nicely, with some vanilla and sherry. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2014
at 10:26