Electric Roads (Batch #3)
(Batch of Electric Roads)
Private Press Brewing in Santa Cruz, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Santa Cruz Mountain BrewingBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.68
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A blend of double barrel-aged barleywine ales.
Electric Roads is inspired by the iconic, warm sound of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. This blend of barrels showcases notes of toffee, milk chocolate, vanilla, raisin, and apricot marmalade, with the rich toffee tone resonating from the nose all the way through the finish. Electric Roads contains multiple double-barrel-aged barleywine threads that boost the ABV, bolster the oak character, and round out the intensity via additional oxidation from racking one barrel to another. This is the first Electric Roads blend to include Munichwine as a blending component.
Blend #3 (PPB-3Q401):
75% DeJohnette, 25% Pike (barrel #233) aged 12 months in Old Fitzgerald barrels and 18 months in Port barrels
DeJohnette (barrel #251) aged 16 months in Old Fitzgerald barrels and 14 months in Basil Hayden barrels
Canterbury Scene Blend (barrel #268) aged 7 months in Calumet 15 Year barrels
Pike (barrel #269) aged 12 months in Cognac barrels and 6 months in 1792 barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #283) aged 15 months in Heaven Hill barrels and 4 months in Widow Jane 15 Year barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #316) aged 19 months in Willett Family Reserve barrels
2023 Release
Electric Roads is inspired by the iconic, warm sound of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. This blend of barrels showcases notes of toffee, milk chocolate, vanilla, raisin, and apricot marmalade, with the rich toffee tone resonating from the nose all the way through the finish. Electric Roads contains multiple double-barrel-aged barleywine threads that boost the ABV, bolster the oak character, and round out the intensity via additional oxidation from racking one barrel to another. This is the first Electric Roads blend to include Munichwine as a blending component.
Blend #3 (PPB-3Q401):
75% DeJohnette, 25% Pike (barrel #233) aged 12 months in Old Fitzgerald barrels and 18 months in Port barrels
DeJohnette (barrel #251) aged 16 months in Old Fitzgerald barrels and 14 months in Basil Hayden barrels
Canterbury Scene Blend (barrel #268) aged 7 months in Calumet 15 Year barrels
Pike (barrel #269) aged 12 months in Cognac barrels and 6 months in 1792 barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #283) aged 15 months in Heaven Hill barrels and 4 months in Widow Jane 15 Year barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #316) aged 19 months in Willett Family Reserve barrels
2023 Release
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle pours with a murky mahogany colored body that supports almost no head. The aroma offers up inviting reduced sugars as well as some wood notes followed by booze and spirits. The taste delivers smooth integrated molasses, a dash of toffee as well as murmurs of sweet dark fruity esters. The barrel treatment overshadows the beer a bit with booze, slick sweet bourbon and then muted woodiness. Great sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2025
at 22:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draught at the Cellar, 1/18/25.
Dark, clear. Little/no head.
Rich bourbon, big, mocha-laced maltiness with lots of caramel and light vanilla. Not boozey in the nose.
Rich and malty, lightly syrupy with huge caramel. Bourbon acidity sneaks up on you and explodes on the finish, joined by warming alcohol. A bit punchy and raw as a result. Has some great elements and perhaps it's just too young, but I'm glad I'm a SP member and not a PP member!
Dark, clear. Little/no head.
Rich bourbon, big, mocha-laced maltiness with lots of caramel and light vanilla. Not boozey in the nose.
Rich and malty, lightly syrupy with huge caramel. Bourbon acidity sneaks up on you and explodes on the finish, joined by warming alcohol. A bit punchy and raw as a result. Has some great elements and perhaps it's just too young, but I'm glad I'm a SP member and not a PP member!
Tried
from Draft
at
Side Project Cellar
on 19 Jan 2025
at 19:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from a 500 ml bottle. Aroma is malt forward with tons of toffee and dark caramel. Toasted bread and hints of mutes. Faint chocolate, treacle and molasses. Light bourbon and faint oak notes. Light oak notes. Pours dark brown, almost black with a medium large, medium thick, light mocha head that recedes steadily to the edges. Flavor is somewhat sweet with loads of dark caramel and toffee. Lighter toasted bread and nuts with even lighter chocolate and treacle. Medium low bitterness and medium alcohol notes. Light oak notes. Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid barleywine with great malt notes. Alcohol is well hidden.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2024
at 07:00
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Sample during Blarney Wine Festival 2024 on 03/22/2024.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2024
at 17:03
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle. Black beer with a tan head. Bourbon and light chocolate aroma. Chocolate and light dark fruit flavor with light bourbon. Medium bodied. Chocolate and dark fruit linger with light bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2024
at 19:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours opaque mahogany, small tan head, minimal lacing. Aroma is toffee, bourbon, vanilla. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2023
at 05:59