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 - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
355ml bottle. 2018 vintage. Thanks c0fein! Sweet, stingy and woody with some oak, loads of bourbon, toffee, syrup and buttery notes. Heavy and slightly boozy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled 355ml (Beerdome, mark 25418) Ruby colour, steady beige head. Aroma is malty with toffee and raisins. Full-bodied. Very malty, raisiny, toffeeish flavour with light vanilla and oak. It has also whisky alcohol kick and some amount of hops, so bitter aftertaste. At least as fresh (less than a year) this is close to American Strong Ale type of beer. Pleasant, intensive.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Copper, beige head. Aroma: Malt, toffee, Bourbon. Taste: Over medium sweet, malty, caramel and toffee, dark dried fruit notes, pretty strong boozy and vanilla Bourbon notes, almond hints. Full body, below average carbonation. Nice, but lacking some complexity and too sticky sweet compared to some other great barrel aged Barleywines I have tasted.
backlog: Billie's Craft Beer Fest day 1 - 3.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
30 November 2018. Billie's Craft Beer Fest. Cheers to Anke, tderoeck & 77ships! Hazy brown with a lasting, thin, foamy, off-white head; little lacing. Aroma of pear syrup, plum, dough, oak, brioche, spicy cookie, caramel, almond, bourbon, 'woody vanilla'. Taste is medium to heavy malty sweet, quite fruity, balancing plum & pear on the one hand and dough & caramel on the other; light to medium herbal bitter, green tea-like, a bit spicy, but creamy vanilla and some wood are apparent throughout; already warming up in the mouth. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, lingering dough & dark fruit, woody, warming bourbon alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Not the most refined of BAs but it does the job.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled at Billie's 2018. Dark brown with no head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of malt sweetness. Very dry from the barrel some coconut too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draft at Billie’s Beer Festival ‘18. Hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma of caramel, malt, toffee, oak, bourbon. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Thanks! Sampled draft @ Billie’s Beer Festival 2018. Day 1. Dark amber. Nose is sweet bourbon but also some oxidation walnut, sugar. Taste is oxidation, alcoholic, boozy, sugar, walnut,… Oxidized syrup. Good but they took it a bit too far.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2018, Day 1. A clear amber beer with a small white head. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, strong riped moderate sweet fruits. Taste of sweet strong riped fruits, caramel, vanilla, bourbon, fascinating