Double Barrel Syzygy
Temporal Artisan Ales in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Brewed at/by: Container BrewingBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.64
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Barleywine aged first in a Heaven Hill bourbon barrel for 16 months, then moved into an Old Fitzgerald wheated bourbon barrel for another year.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottled, huge thanks Fil for sharing with us! Dark brown body, hazy, no head. Huge aroma, bourbon barrel vanilla, bit of dust, bit of buttery creamy notes, raisins, some alcohol, but also some nougat. Complex, but bit flawed maybe as well. Smooth lean dry taste, fantatstic caramel, coconut and vanilla interplay, some roast, dry bitterness, big bitterness even, but balancing things out really, really well, with extremely well hidden alcohol. This is excellent!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2025
at 16:56
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer!).
Aroma: sweet, bold, dark fruits, caramel.
Taste: along the same lines.
Overall: it has a nice complexity and balance between caramel, dark fruits, and some hoppy bitterness. Good one 👍
Aroma: sweet, bold, dark fruits, caramel.
Taste: along the same lines.
Overall: it has a nice complexity and balance between caramel, dark fruits, and some hoppy bitterness. Good one 👍
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2025
at 05:10
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 330mL bottle (finally rating this since I didn't rate it when I first tried it since I was on a date and only checked it in on Untapped - gave it what would be a 4.3 on Untapped on Dec 11, 2023, but no description). Dark brown with minimal beige head. Nice caramel and dark fruits, barrel seems to have fallen off a bit with age, but still traces and quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
from
The Gull Liquor Store
on 20 Apr 2025
at 04:44
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
330mL bottle. Pours a deep, murky brown with almost no head. Very nice bourbon barrels, dark fruit, and chewy caramelized sugars on the nose. Flavour is very rich, lots of bourbon barrels, dark fruit, and gooey toffee; some burnt sugars on the finish. Palate is smooth. Fantastic complexity; the bourbon barrels complement the base beer very well. One of the best Temporal products I've had.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Slow Hand Beer Co.
on 18 Apr 2025
at 03:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Dull brown. There's a nice barrel aroma. On the palate, it is on the thin side, and that really removes the support for the barrel character. Feels like a beer that was better last year.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2025
at 07:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with no head. Aromas of rich bourbon, graham cracker, raisins, soft vanilla, and caramel malts. Flavors of raisins, caramel, bourbon (more the intense Fitzgerald than softer Heaven Hills) and sweet toasty malts. Full warm finish; maybe a bit boozy. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2024
at 22:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown / black with a tiny head. Aroma is very complex, with loads of elegant bourbon barrel complexity, dark dried fruits, and toffee. Flavour has tons of depth, with huge bourbon barrel complexity, dark dried fruits (raisins, especially), and toffee. Elegant, balanced, and rich. Temporal's best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2024
at 03:15