Oakspire: Four Roses
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Rotating|
Score
7.00
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We first began brewing Oakspire in 2018 as a special release around the Holidays and it has since become a fan favorite. In 2022, we're thrilled to partner with Four Roses Distillery again, known for their smooth, fruit forward and slightly spicy bourbons. Oakspire features a custom-built, proprietary infusion method to pull the flavors from the bourbon-steeped charred oak and marries it with a malty-sweet, deep amber ale.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, wood. Pours opaque rusty orange with a thin beige head that reduces into a ring pretty quickly. Taste has nice bourbon character and is quite different than your average bourbon barrel beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2026
at 04:56
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 2025 vintage. Caramel malt aroma with notes of toffee, dark fruit, vanilla, oak and bourbon. Pours clear copper colored with a half a finger of tan head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with caramel, toffee and dark fruit flavors as well as having a medium body and smooth mouthfeel. Finishes quite smooth with vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
from
J&K Liquor
on 16 Mar 2026
at 00:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a largely clear amber with a white head. Dark fruit aroma, molasses, bourbon. Flavor is bourbon forward with notes of oak, dark fruit, molasses, caramel, and some booze. Body is fairly restrained for a 9% beer. I think I'd like a bit more body. Overall tasty, though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2025
at 03:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Binny's, "Best by 6 Oct 2024". Strong ale nose under the cap and after pouring. Ruddy brown color in the glass, a few bubbles feeding a thin head. Taste has some lighter malt than expected, maybe because barre-aging usually is used for stouts. Comes in like a Bourbon & water. No strong alcohol, just some nice bourbon and beer notes mingled.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Binny's Beverage Depot - Downers Grove
on 19 Mar 2025
at 03:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Copper in color with a two finger head. Aroma is mostly bourbon barrel. Taste is also bourbon barrel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Caramel brown with a large foamy head that lingered. Sweet, toaaty, honey, tangy, fruity and a moderate boozy whiskey note. Very long finish. Moderately full bodied
Tried
on 12 Oct 2024
at 00:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Mild earthy and boozy aroma. Taste is minimal sweet malt and minimal bitterness. More of a woody flavor than bourbon itself. Underwhelming, easy drinking for a 9% beer.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2024
at 04:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Citrus and bourbon aroma. Bourbon and vanilla flavor with malt and light citrus. Medium bodied. Bourbon and citrus linger with vanilla and light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2023
at 21:47
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 6
From Liquor Shed in Casper.
It pours a clear deep amber with a long lasting head of foam and excellent lacing.
I get a fruity malty nose permeated by the Bourbon.
The taste is Bourbon, semi sweet malt, little bit of fruitiness but overall, the flavours don't mesh at all. Kind of a mess, imho.
Barely medium bodied, good carbonation, somewhat watery in the finish and boozy.
I don't like this
It pours a clear deep amber with a long lasting head of foam and excellent lacing.
I get a fruity malty nose permeated by the Bourbon.
The taste is Bourbon, semi sweet malt, little bit of fruitiness but overall, the flavours don't mesh at all. Kind of a mess, imho.
Barely medium bodied, good carbonation, somewhat watery in the finish and boozy.
I don't like this
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2023
at 22:13
4.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear copper colored pour with a small beige head. The aroma is quite strong with sharp booze and perhaps a bit of caramel. The taste is caramel, vanilla, some hot alcohol and a bit of rye bread. The palate is full and viscous. Finishes relatively short with lingering sweet caramel, and peaches?. Overall: decent, nice quaff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2023
at 19:47