Barrel Aged Inspiration
Community Beer Company in Dallas, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.85
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark muddied brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head that fades fast. Aroma of alcohol, caramel, pit fruits, raisins, figs and quite a bit of bitterness, some from earth and some from light hops. Full-bodied; Strong rich alcohol flavours at first with grain, malt, caramel, toffee, earth and a bit of hop flavours near the end - deep and strong. Aftertaste is rich with the vanilla, oak, grain, earth and pungent pit fruits lending some nice complexities here. Overall, a very nice, complex and relatively easy-to-drink beer that must have mellowed out quite a bit, but this is nice to drink and dare I say, not a difficult beer to drink at 10+% abv. Worth trying if you can find this and hold onto it for at least a little bit of time. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Craft & Growler in Dallas, Texas on 01-September-2015 for US$4,49 sampled at home in Washington on 18-December-2016.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle thanks to Secret Santa crajun! Clear dark brown, thin fizzy tan head. Good retention. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, wood, grape, caramel. The taste is toffee, caramel, vanilla, grapes, bourbon, wood. Medium bodied, a bit hot.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
12 oz. bottle, pours a dark orange amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out candied sugar, Belgian yeast, and bready malt. Flavour is jumbled, with Belgian yeast, candied sugar and yeast. Messy and yeasty. Not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to RightCross55! Pours clear reddish chestnut, small tan head, dissipates fairly quickly leaving some lacing. Aroma is oaky and whiskey, Belgian spices, prune, raisin, clove. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, quite spiced with apparent whiskey and oak tannins. Body is a bit light, a fair bit of astringence and some heat.