Barrel-Aged Bigfoot - Spiced
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating|
Score
7.84
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FOMO Limited Release Small Batch Series
Barleywine-style ale aged in bourbon barrels with nutmeg, orange peel, clove, and cinnamon
Barleywine-style ale aged in bourbon barrels with nutmeg, orange peel, clove, and cinnamon
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Essentially a winter warmer, only a monster (or at least a cryptid) version of one. Most of the usual Bigfoot piney bitterness has been tamped down, replaced with a sizable amount of clove and cinnamon, followed by a deep vein of bourbon. Nice pint, if a tad overspiced.
Tried
from Can
at
Sierra Nevada Brewery - North Carolina
on 02 Jan 2025
at 01:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the Chico venue. Pours dark brown with a slight tan head. Slightly pie spice aroma. Full body. Flavor is nutmeg and malty. Lightly sweet. Mildly bitter. Excellent sipper.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2024
at 20:46
8.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Mills River. Tulip. Sort of see through dull brown on copper, spotted lace. Beautiful potent ginger, apple cider, red wine, barrel nose. Cinnamon-ginger soda dominate with vanilla barrel, wanting grape tannins+acidity, floral, surprisingly light caramel & wink of maple. Very strong & evenly carbed. Thin-ish body, warming, potent, the slightest of oxidation. Wonderful.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2023
at 01:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Red-brown color. Nice balance of alcohol heat, sweet barleywine flavor, bourbon, and spices. Alcohol burn at the finish.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2023
at 21:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is big spice and a malt kick. Taste is more of the interesting spice notes and plenty malts.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2023
at 15:47
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
473ml Can from Sierra Nevada Cascade Club UK. A hazy ruby/brown coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Sweet, orange, caramel, bourbon, cinnamon, spice taste and aroma. Really rich, boozy and complex. A very enjoyable barley wine which was almost a little hard to finish. Certainly an interesting one.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2022
at 18:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can, shared at HopDog. thanks so much Fin. Bitter chocolate and dried orange nose, hoppy citrus Pepper and cinnamon. Medium body. Cinnamon main, nutmeg, dry spice, eggnog creaminess, spice retronasal. still very drinkable somehow. fun!
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2022
at 18:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Rather clear dark amber color with white head. Aroma is super orange peel and cinnamon, some nutmeg, caramel, honey, not too overdone, good balance, but definitely christmasy. Taste is cinnamon, orange peel, honey, nutmeg, really christmasy, caramel, raisins. A bit foamy carbonation, not too overdone, warming finish. Christmas special!
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2022
at 18:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 473ml can on 28/6/2022. Pours a deep amber brown with a smallish head. Smells of caramel malt, honey, spice and citrus peel. Tastes sweet and spicy up front - caramel and toffee, fruit cake, lots of cinnamon and more citrus peel. Finishes with a firm and spicy bitterness, with some warming bourbon at the back. Certainly not as hop forward as the standard edition, and the 13% is a bit of a surprise. It's complex yet subtle, and a lovely winter sipper. Probably just go with the standard going forward, but glad to have tried it.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2022
at 06:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can picked up from the Sierra Nevada Cascade Club webshop UK. Had this Sunday 16th May at Scott and Mandy's Dumbleton Worcestershire. Pours dark reddy/brown with a large beige head, a little haze, looks very good. The nose gives off plenty of toffee, orange peel, molasses and a little whisky (bourbon actually). In the mouth, similar with dried fruit, fruit peel, Christmas spices cake and malt. Bittersweet, indulgent beast of a beer, hoppiness is also here, good but I much prefer the standard version. I am glad that I got two as I feel that I need to try this again to really appreciate all that is going on here.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2022
at 01:28