Kuhnhenn Brewing Company BIG Berhta Chocolate Caramel Love Bourbon Barrel Aged

BIG Berhta Chocolate Caramel Love Bourbon Barrel Aged

 

Kuhnhenn Brewing Company in Warren, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Barley Wine - Barley Rotating
Score
7.32
ABV: 12.0% IBU: - Ticks: 12
Pastry Barley Wine

This ale has an intense malty character and aroma, that meld into the cacao and rich caramel, playing off the warmth of the alcohol.
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Barley Wine tasting at Bratislavka. Dark brown color with small beige head. Aroma of chocolate, dark malt, vanilla, caramel, cocoa, alcohol. Taste is very intense with chocolate, cocoa, dark malt, bready malt, caramel, alcohol. Nice sipper.

Tried from Bottle from Beer Republic on 24 Jun 2025 at 14:13


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4
Appearance - 1 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5

2022 bottle drunk 12/27/24.
Wow, never seen this...got about 5 ounces before it just turned in to glop. And a majority of the bottle is solid. The beer looks like a chocolate milk shake.
Smells like oak, chocolates, salted caramel, grape and prune. Maybe a bit too much caramel. Not quite as much beer as I'd like. No booze.
Gloppy, gritty, chocolatey, like a smoothie Barleywine. Yep, a chocolate, salted, caramel pastry Barleywine. Pretty frickin bizarre! Guess I got the very end of the bottling line...

Tried from Bottle at Kuhnhenn Brewing on 28 Dec 2024 at 00:20


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

12oz bottle from JohnGalt1. Dark brown flat pour. Aroma is sweet, chocolate, soy sauce. The taste is chocolate, some boozy warmth. Iffy on this, the taste is better than the aroma.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2024 at 03:01


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

12oz bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is massive chocolate syrup notes caramel bourbon barrel vanilla. Taste is more of the big sweet chocolate roast malts caramel bourbon barrel very sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2024 at 02:54


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle picked up from Beer Republic webshop Breda Netherlands (I think) and consumed at dad and Paulines Monday 1st April 2024 listening to a random selection of tunes. Pours dark brown with a fast disappearing head, agree with Loz and dad this has a really beefy nose, but there is also bourbon. Thick in the mouth, boozy but some chocolate combines, quite zappy but really heavy, good.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2024 at 22:25


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6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Aromas are rich traditional barley wine with lots of yeast and malt, don't pick up much chocolate or caramel, maybe hint of oak. Cocoa comes through more in the flavors along with a bit of caramel but they're not balanced. Very rich. One and done.

Tried from Bottle from Tavour on 16 Mar 2024 at 18:48


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle Beer Republic Green Foil 2024-02-24 Olofstorp AR: bourbon, coffee, dark chocolate, sweet AP: dark thick brown, no head F: bourbon, coffee, dark chocolate, sweet

Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2024 at 14:17


8

Thanks Thomas L.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Feb 2024 at 21:41


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Green foil capped 12oz bottle was a literal mess. Opening it there was no fluid motion and nothing came out. With time it glugged and sputtered and I was able to retrieve some liquid from it. It pours with a chocolate milkshake looking body with a milkshake head. The aroma offers up boozy chocolate leading to chocolate fudge. The taste comes across very much sludgy and chocolate milkshake like. It's like drinking a frothy boozy chocolate mousse. Very strange as it's literally thick milkshake consistency. More sips keep revealing the same flavours of chocolate, velvety fudge and a wide swath of booziness. Interesting sipper.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2024 at 04:18


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Panda at home, thanks to Kenny, 16/12/23. Black with a fast escaping khaki head. Nose is chocolate, caramel, dark malts, booze whisper, dried fruits, molasses. Taste comprises chocolate pudding, custard streak, perfume, caramel melt, Curly Wurly, molasses, brown sugar dusting, light peachy/pineapple strokes, toffee. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced kiss of alcohol. Solid work.

Tried on 16 Dec 2023 at 21:06