Anabasis - Double Barrel 10 Year
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production|
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8.07
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Our 10th Anniversary blend of Double Barrel Anabasis began in February of 2020 when we racked our English/American Barleywine to Willett 5 year Bourbon Barrels. After 2 years of resting, we moved the mature beer to Blanton's Barrels for a finishing time of 13 more months. After 3 years of resting, concentrating, and developing in oak, we decided on a final blend to share with you. Anabasis is a complex beer which started as a homebrew recipe more than a decade ago and is one of the very few recipes to have never changed. It is all English via its malts and yeast profile, but hopped like an American Barleywine. It takes time and oxidation to round its edges and develop into our flagship Barleywine and fit into the category with its own personality.
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9.2/10
LCI. Oak forward, rich dark roasty boozy chocolate. Lots of layers and more as it opens
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2024
at 19:14
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Rated at The Side Project Cellar. Intense barrel notes, sweet, heavy and slightly syrupy with some chocolate sauce, vanilla, oak and toffee. Quite massive but extremely tasty and complex, nicely balanced. --- Beer merged from original tick of Double Barrel Anabasis - 10 Year (2023) on 07 Nov 2024 at 15:54 - Score: 8. Original review text: Intense barrel notes, sweet, heavy and slightly syrupy with some chocolate sauce, vanilla, oak and toffee. Quite massive but extremely tasty and complex, nicely balanced.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2024
at 16:44
9.2/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2024
at 21:45
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
On tap at the brewery. Dark brown with tan head. Salted caramel, bourbon, vanilla, somewhat spicy, thick. Medium+ sweetness. Medium to full bodied.
Tried
from Draft
at
Side Project Brewing
on 30 Jan 2024
at 19:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cellar draught, 9/39/23. Dark, unclear, no head. Nose is...this beer. Heavy, heavy pepper, graphite, lead, etc...some cherry, some vanilla, some light milk chocolate. No booze, low sugar, high spiciness from bourbon, good lord. Spicy as fuck. Graphite, lead, bourbon, rich, dry chocolate. Some oomph but very strong attenuation. Warming bourbon spice in the finish with vanilla and chocolate lingering. Anabasis is a crazy f-ing beer. Still not convinced it's not secretly the best beer out there, though it's a very acquired taste.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2023
at 21:56
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle. Pours black with small tan head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is dark fruit, bourbon, wood, brown sugar. Slick body, chocolate, raisin, bourbon, licorice, wood, nice sweetness, enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2023
at 02:24