Brewer's Reserve: Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
(has 3 batches)
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Series|
Score
7.69
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An American Barleywine Ale aged in used oak bourbon barrels, this beer develops rich flavors of dark fruits and wood that deepen over time.
**2008 Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal Winner**
**2008 Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal Winner**
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, thanks to Misterburd. Pours murky chocolate brown with foamy light beige head, woodsy bourbon aroma, medium carbonation, slightly sweet bourbon taste with woodsy aroma, thin body, long lightly bitter bourbon finish. Quite potent and stinging..
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2016
at 10:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours out a cola color topped with a small head. Nose is big sweet malts rich toffee caramel some pit fruit bourbon barrel vanilla coconut. Taste is more of the heavy sweetness rich malts pit fruit toffee a nice bourbon barrel balance. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2016
at 11:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle: (2015) Cloudy, medium brown with a spotty, off-white ring. Big, bourbon-soaked oak aroma. Taste is bourbon, caramel malt, wood. Surprisingly mild alcohol presence. Woody/leafy bittering. Big and smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2016
at 15:40
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Bourbon, caramel chocolate malt, hay, and alcohol aroma. Cloudy brown with moderate head. Sweet bourbon, creamy caramel malt, and moderately bitter herbal hay and alcohol flavor. Has a great bourbon flavor with minimal alcohol harshness. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2015
at 23:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared during Jack’s farewell bottle share at Craft Clerkenwell. Many thanks to Manny for this gem. Pours clear amber-gold with a foamy top. The nose is ripe with booze, toasted wood and ripening orange. Medium to big sweet flavor with lots of bready malts, alcohol, crackers, hay and light caramel. Full bodied, chewy, with fine carbonation. Hot finish with notes of toffee, pale wood, caramel and golden raisins. The beer is certainly heavy-handed but it has its moments.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2015
at 01:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
14th July 2015
Farewell Jack bottleshare at Craft Clerkenwell. Thanks to Manny G. Lightly hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, mild fine carbonation. Light dry malts, trace of creamy sweetness. Spicy toffee, spicy bourbon. Little dry fruit. Pretty spicy but fun!
Farewell Jack bottleshare at Craft Clerkenwell. Thanks to Manny G. Lightly hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, mild fine carbonation. Light dry malts, trace of creamy sweetness. Spicy toffee, spicy bourbon. Little dry fruit. Pretty spicy but fun!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2015
at 06:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Manny G. It pours cloudy deep mahogany brown with a small beige head. The nose is sweet, sticky, a whole load of dried fruit, fruit cake, candied stuff, spice and generic bourbon character. The taste is rich, oily, spicy, quite hot from the booze, fruit cake, vanilla, oily, toffee, fruit cake and ginger bread with a warming finish. Full body and fine carbonation. Pretty hot if truth be told. Decent... if a bit harsh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2015
at 06:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at craft beer co JackL leaving drinks. Huge thanks to Manny G for this one. Aroma is subdued cakey. Caramel. Hot alcohol. Light hazed reddy orange coloured pour with a halo off white head. Flavor is composed if toffee. Hit alcohol. Caramel. Toffee. Varnish. Nail polish remover. Solvent. Palate is composed of sticky sweet. Solvent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2015
at 15:01