Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA
Van Moll in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: TankerBarley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.35
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mjs (12070) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 2028, thanks VastActiv, at Arde, 20210123) The beer poured nearly black and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had vanilla, burnt malts and vineousness. Palate was full bodied and warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were vineousness, malts, toasted malts vanilla and bitterness. Aftertaste was woody, burnt malts and bitterness. A nice woody brew with burnt notes.
VastActiv (16457) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Ardes residence, Helsinki. Thanks Markoijelena! Color is dark brown with small head. Aromas and flavors: Chocolate, some coffee, malts... dry and nice! Simple but enjoyable.
Hermod (18229) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle. Bbe 2028. Thx Vastactiv. Poured near black with a thin off white head. Bready, plummy and roasty even. Not sweet . Long finish. Pleasant. Easy for the abv.
tiong (21414) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Sweet, syrupy and slightly caramely with some stingy wood, oak and bourbon. A bit harsh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from markoijelena in the last EU swap. Aroma is boozy with underlying nuttines and a liqourice edge. Dark brown. Muddy. Thin creamy and bubbly beige head. Medium bitter with low key underlying sweetness. Dough, nuts , vanilla, dark fruits and liqourice. The booze and barrel aging then appear through into the increasingly bitter and astringent finish. Mirrors the aroma. Medium bodied. Oily. Average carbonation. As mentioned the long finish is also tres astringent. I'd be interested in trying the original version as the barrel aging is the key facet here (which I guess is pretty obvious but whatevs).
SVD (7213) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home, black beer, small head. Aroma is bourbon, malt, caramel, sweet. Taste is the same, bourbon, alcohol, sweet, caramel. Nice.
Inoven (3787) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flesje gekregen van Tomhendriksen. Diep donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim dat snel weg trekt. Aroma van koffie, karamel en gebrande mout. Smaak is zacht met veel vanille, koffie en behoorlijk pittig (waarschijnlijk van de alcohol). Nasmaak van hop met pit.
madmitch76 (40782) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
7th October 2019
Hazy deep amber brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth and fairly light weight dark malts, mellow smooth dark chocolate. A particular savoury ba element here, if you told me this has added salt, I’d have believed you. Smooth fruity bourbon picks up that savoury vibe and runs with it. Savoury bourbon finish. Intriguing! Very bourbon barrel but where did this intense savoury come from?
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Shadow Assassin - Bourbon BA from Van Moll 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bourbon barrel aged version of a dark barleywine by this renowned Dutch craft brewer in collaboration with Tanker, tasted from tap at Dok Brewing Company in Ghent. Pale greyish beige, mousy, open head lacing in dots over a very deep chocolate brown beer with ruddy-mahogany hue. Aroma of melting ‘fondant’ chocolate, ‘pralines’, toasted chestnuts, kahlua, bourbon, bitter cinnamon, caramel, vanilla-scented oak, dried figs. Sweet onset, candied cherries and raisins, plum, light sourish edge, medium carbonation, full and smoothly oily mouthfeel. Thick toffeeish, caramelly and pecan-nutty malt body with a mild toasty-bitterish edge, dried by tannic woodiness, a spicy cinnamon-like touch and a long-stretching effect of clear, hot and sweet bourbon, which becomes a bit (too) obvious and astringent in the end, with a peppery effect in which a spicy hop bitterness is also hidden. Sweetness, overall, keeps prevailing, with lasting pecan nut and chocolate impressions. Very decent sipper, but ending a tad too boozy for me and basically a bit too dark and sweet for a barleywine as well – comes closer to a quadrupel, in fact.