Life Is Round (Batch #3)
(Batch of Life Is Round)
Private Press Brewing in Santa Cruz, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Santa Cruz Mountain BrewingBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.53
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Blend of barrel-aged barleywine.
Life Is Round is a garnet-colored bourbon barrel-aged barleywine. A trio of barleywine recipes coalesce in this beer offering aromas of fig, dark cherry, salted caramel, and peanut-toffee brittle, while two double barrel-aged threads lend a depth of oak that amplifies a nutmeg, vanilla, and luxardo character. This release showcases the accumulation of dimensionality and nuance that the cellar has gained in its third year.
Blend #3 (PPB-3Q301):
DeJohnette (barrel #137) aged 25 months in Buffalo Trace Experimental barrels
Kriegel (barrel #218) aged 15 months in Heaven Hill barrels
DeJohnette (barrel #252) aged 16 months in Buffalo Trace Experimental barrels and 9 months in Basil Hayden barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #275) aged 13 months in Heaven Hill barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #276) aged 13 months in Willett Family Reserve barrels
2023 Release
Life Is Round is a garnet-colored bourbon barrel-aged barleywine. A trio of barleywine recipes coalesce in this beer offering aromas of fig, dark cherry, salted caramel, and peanut-toffee brittle, while two double barrel-aged threads lend a depth of oak that amplifies a nutmeg, vanilla, and luxardo character. This release showcases the accumulation of dimensionality and nuance that the cellar has gained in its third year.
Blend #3 (PPB-3Q301):
DeJohnette (barrel #137) aged 25 months in Buffalo Trace Experimental barrels
Kriegel (barrel #218) aged 15 months in Heaven Hill barrels
DeJohnette (barrel #252) aged 16 months in Buffalo Trace Experimental barrels and 9 months in Basil Hayden barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #275) aged 13 months in Heaven Hill barrels
Mahavishnu (barrel #276) aged 13 months in Willett Family Reserve barrels
2023 Release
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Malty, sweetish and caramely with some toffee, prunes, vanilla, bourbon, oak and woody notes, some roastiness and earthiness. Quite complex and tasty --- Beer merged from original tick of Life Is Round (Batch 3) on 03 Jan 2025 at 20:54 - Score: 8. Original review text: Malty, sweetish and caramely with some toffee, prunes, vanilla, bourbon, oak and woody notes, some roastiness and earthiness. Quite complex and tasty
Tried
on 06 Jan 2025
at 15:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from a 500 ml bottle. Aroma is malt forward with lots of dark toffee and caramel notes and lighter notes of toasted bread with hints fo chocolate. Moderate alcohol notes with light bourbon and faint oak notes. Pours dark brown with dark auburn hues on the edges and a small, thin, tan head that recedes quickly to the edges and disappears. Flavor is fairly sweet with lots of caramel and toffee as well as lighter notes of burnt sugar, toasted bread and hints of chocolate. Medium low bitterness and medium high alcohol notes. Lingering chocolate, dark toffee and alcohol notes. Light oak and medium light bourbon notes. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid barleywine with nice bourbon notes. A bit hot and boozy, but a solid beer with complex malt notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2023
at 03:11
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle, Batch #3. Pours clear reddish chestnut, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is rich, dark sugars, vanilla, bourbon, toffee, cocoa, werthers. Flavor is sweet but not cloying, light plus bitter. Medium body, low carbonation, silky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2023
at 22:13