Barrel Edition: Rum (2022)
Stroom Brouwers in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series|
Score
7.24
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While a commendable beer on its own, the barrel aging (sic) is what makes this beer truly exceptional! We aged the beer in a Jamaican rum barrel. Prior to the rum, the barrel had been used for two consecutive wine fills.
The barrel imparts a unique character to the beer. There are bold flavors of rum, round notes of vanilla, orange rind and undertones of dark fruit offset by a slight minerality.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
@BXL Beerfest. Dark brown colour, almost no foam. Light carbonation. Sweet, notes of caramel, vanilla, rum, a bit nutty and woody. Sweet and warming sipper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bouteille @ BXLBeerFest'23, jour 2.
Acajou, col fin crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme sur un bouquet belge bien plaisant avec de légers esters – fruits secs (raisins) et rouge en rétro-nasal, apport discret de la barrique de rhum – le tout sur un léger nez frais de booze, pointe de caramélisé et biscuité.
Palais sur une belle base bien belge de quad – esters fruités de bananes, grains malté sur le biscuité, caramel avec une note de fruits rouges et secs. L’apport de la barrique de rhum donne un fini léger sur le boisé, et ce côté très frais du rhum – petite note organique de sucre résiduel – venant peut-être du rhum mais sans pour cela verser dans un rappel tropical ? Je note aussi un fini léger en amertume avec l’apport des houblons.
Une belle réussite qui ne cherche pas à avoir une domination à outrance de la barrique.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Barrel Edition: Rum (2022) from Stroom Brouwers 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
The other barrel aged quad by Stroom, this time in rum barrels, also created in late 2022. Shared with Katia Warny and Ama Deke on a grey December afternoon, cheers guys! Pale greyish beige, moussy, dense but gradually opening head, misty bronze-brown robe with ruddy burgundy hue – looking exactly the same as the whiskey edition, though perhaps with somewhat less head retention. Aroma of caramel, freshly chopped oak wood, brown rum present but far less prominent than the whisky was in the other edition, brown bread, dried fig, nutmeg, toast, pear syrup, medlar, freshly cut red apple, ground hazelnuts. Sweet onset, raisins and medlar, dried fig and ripe pear, medium carbonation (somewhat less active than in the whisky version), full and rounded body. The same caramelly, hazelnutty and brown-bready malts fill the mouth, but a red apple flavour accompanies the whole much more outspokenly than in the whisky edition; toasty bitterish edge and lots of strong, vanilla-scenting oak like in the whisky edition, boozy finish too, but the rum remains a tad less dominant here than the whisky was in the other one. Still a rum flavour, including traces of that typical coconut association, is noticeable. Rich, sweet and powerful winter warmer, delicious and somehow a tad better balanced than the whisky edition, though differences are small; this one too, I think, would benefit from extended cellaring.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Barrel Edition: Rum (2022) from Stroom Brouwers 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2/XII/22 - 75cl bottle @ Stroom brewery, BB: n/a (2022-1713)
Clear deep red brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: alcohol, some dried fruits, a bit sourish, some banana, dry impression, wood notes, a bit yeasty, dried fruits, some caramel. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, some alcohol, soft roast, hint of ripe banana. Aftertaste: bitter, yeasty touch, spicy, a bit sourish, dry, wood notes, some tannins, bit malty, some caramel.