Brewer's Reserve: Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Series|
Score
7.68
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**2008 Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal Winner**
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Best of Beers. Hazy very dark red brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit, raisin and lots of bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish with lots of warming alcohol. Oily and soft. 080725
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is pretty firm bourbon with malt, vanilla, oak, dried fruits, caramel toffee, alcohol, marzipan, touch of walnuts and nougat. Flavour is heavily sweet and fairly bitter for the style. Body is full. Quite heavy and boozy, sweet, overall not too crazy about this one, but it is nicely sippable.
Again world class beer. Just hits the notes of everything the stylr should be, and keeps it exactly balanced. Beertemple can ams
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at Peders, Copenhagen 23/06/2024 Medium sweet malty with layers of caramel and toffee, fudge, slightly charred brown sugar sprinkle, heaps of dark dried fruit shred, full bodied, spices and bourbon coalesce into the warming slightly bitter and drying lingering malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
s: bourbon - alcohol - tobacco a: murky brown head - thin fast-dying head t: nutty - toffee - scotch p: caramelised sugars - pitted fruits - woodsy o: very complex - malt-forward - could still be aged MUCH longer...even after 5 years! 12 ounce bottle - Beer Table Pantry: New York (Grand Central Terminal), New York - 30-November-2018 - US$7,99 - 2018 Vintage - sampled: 06-January-2024
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Aroma is nice, sweet, Bourbon, caramel, taste is a bit sharp and alcoholic, caramel, raisins, oak, toffee, common US BW bitterness, grain, heavy, tasty… but heavy..
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Flaska från Central Waters, 2021, 14,3%. Något murken mörk mahogny/rubinröd med beige krona. Amerikansk barleywine storlek större. Bra med riv i, smaker av kola, knäck, läder, granskott, apelsinzest. Rejäl kropp, stor hetta, mycket fat. Riktigt kraftpaket.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can at share. Amber pour, cloudy, thin beige head. Malty aroma, as expected, caramel, toffee and plenty of bourbon barrel. Rich malty taste, woody, tobacco and more bourbon and its prerequisite heat. Smooth and strong.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Holiday Market. Pours a clearish brown with a small bit of beige head that dissipates quickly. Prune, raisin, honey, oak and bourbon on the nose. Sweet on the palate with some mild oxidation present on the palate. Bitter citrus pith with lots of oaky bourbon and warming alcohol. Warming finish with sweet malt and bourbon, with bitter hops that linger.