Vocation Brewery American Brown Ale - Bourbon Barrel Aged

American Brown Ale - Bourbon Barrel Aged

 

Vocation Brewery in Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Brown Ale - Imperial Special
Score
7.16
ABV: 12.2% IBU: - Ticks: 9
A full-bodied, robust, smooth and warming American Brown Ale incorporating 7 malts and Columbus and Simcoe hops. Bourbon, vanilla, caramel, nutty, bready and coconut flavours with light roasted notes, sweet pine and a dry tannic finish.

All flavours are enhanced by 21 months of dual maturity in wood, 18 months in a bourbon barrel and 3 months in an oak cask.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap. Hazy dark brown with small tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, little dark fruit, little barrel and chocolate. Flavour is malt, caramel, chocolate, little barrel, little vanilla, sweet, warming, hop and a little bitter.

Tried from Draft on 07 Nov 2024 at 17:24


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draught @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren. Pours black with a small brown head. Aroma of malt, caramel, light wood, dried fruit, bourbon. Flavor is light sweet, malty, caramel, wood, light vanilla, dried fruit, bourbon. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet finish with some warming alcohol. 211024

Tried on 21 Oct 2024 at 18:00


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren. Hazy dark red brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish with warming alcohol. 211024

Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 17:48


7

keg at the Great Exhibition ....deep red brown ...small tan head head ..soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose ..soft juicy caramel toffee fruit n

Tried on 09 May 2024 at 10:39


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Kitt hissig. Ultramørkebrun. Uklar. Lavt skum med litt farge. Blir raskt film. Aroma av bourbon & karamell. Smaken treaktig. Lønnesirup. Litt nøtter. Tørr avslutning. Hint av vanilje i avslutninga.

Tried on 19 Feb 2024 at 19:46


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Beige head with good retention over a mahogany coloured body, clingy lacing. Attractive smell of toffee and oak. The taste profile follows suit with toffee-caramel, oak, and a backdrop of dark fruits. Rounded roasted long lived, and warming finish with a bourbon touch. Full bodied. Perfect slow sipper on a Saturday afternoon. (Tromsø, 03.02.2024).

Tried from Bottle on 04 Feb 2024 at 10:18


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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Halifax Beer Festival 2023. Dark hazy amber sipper. Very sweet, and much more of a barley wine in style than the said American Brown. There's certainly some dark maltiness in its aftertaste.

Tried from Can on 31 Jan 2024 at 07:35


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle. Pours a clear deep brown, thick beige head. Aroma of bourbon, oak, toffee. Taste is dominated nicely by the bourbon, oak, toffee, dark fruity malts, a little vanilla, a bit of alcohol warmth. A lovely smooth BA beer, hard to really tell it was a Brown Ale but I'm not complaining.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2023 at 22:32


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home. Pours deep amber, nose is roasty, toffee, vanilla, nutty, taste is sweet toffee, roasted, bitter, oak, little twiggy and herbal.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2023 at 10:34