Oakspire: Four Roses
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
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6.96
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
bb (18607) reviewed Oakspire: Four Roses from New Belgium Brewing Company 2 years ago
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.
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
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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. A- Oak, vanilla, malt, caramel, fried bread. A- Copper color, clear liquid, off white head. T- Malt, faint bitterness, oak, vanilla, waxy. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish. O- The best oakspire variant I've had. Lots of sweet oak on the nose and more malty on the palate. Drinkable for sure and the abv feels lighter than it is.