Empyreal Radiance
Elder Pine Brewing & Blending in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular|
Score
7.18
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Black Lager aged in our American Oak Lagering Foeder for 6 months. Empyreal Radiance is the first beer to be aged in our heavily toasted oak foeder that had bourbon recirculated through the CIP spray ball for 7 days to rehydrate the wood before aging beer. Expect notes of toasted American oak, warming vanilla, and traces of whiskey complexities under a mailliard-heavy maltiness with very refined roasted characters of baker's chocolate & dark caramel, specifically riesen candies. As it warms, chocolate covered espresso beans & dark dried fruit present themselves delightfully.
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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Crowler 2-5-21
Tried
from Crowler
on 06 Feb 2021
at 02:26
8
Dark oakyness upfront, real dark, lager medium mouthfeel, biscuits and dark chocolate and tobacco on the nose, shorter finish than the suarez dark lager but nice.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2020
at 16:45
7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
16 oz. Aroma is wet river rock, worty, dark bread, herbal, floral, woody, bourbon. Pours very dark brown to near black with a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is lightly bittersweet, roasty, faintly tart, with dark beer, woody and light whiskey flavors.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Nov 2020
at 03:09