Embus Bourbon BA (Silver Series)
Pühaste in Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Collab with: Alive BrewingBarley Wine - Barley Series
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Score
7.67
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A black barley wine aged in bourbon barrels. Brewed in collaboration with Alive Brewing.
The aroma is a blend of bourbon-soaked plums, dates, and raisins, complemented by notes of toasted rye bread, toffee, and portwine. The palate is both sweet and dry, warming, full-bodied and almost liqueur-like. Layers of dried fruit, coffee, raw cocoa, and tobacco take center stage, while the bourbon warmth lingers in the aftertaste. A deep and rich barley wine offering a complex depth of flavor.
The aroma is a blend of bourbon-soaked plums, dates, and raisins, complemented by notes of toasted rye bread, toffee, and portwine. The palate is both sweet and dry, warming, full-bodied and almost liqueur-like. Layers of dried fruit, coffee, raw cocoa, and tobacco take center stage, while the bourbon warmth lingers in the aftertaste. A deep and rich barley wine offering a complex depth of flavor.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
330mL bottle, pours black with a small beige head. Aroma is full of rich bourbon barrels, deep treacle toffee, dark dried fruits, and caramelized—almost burnt—brown sugar. Flavour reveals a very roasty barleywine, with deep roasted malt, boozy bourbon barrels, burnt/caramelized brown sugars, and a touch of rye bread crust. Wonderful barrel character that accentuated the great roasted malts, with enough of that fruitiness to still very much convince that this is a barley wine. Complex, refined; excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
De Struise Beershop
on 05 May 2026
at 04:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Black colour, small white head. Aroma is chocolaty, some toffee, roasted and mild alcohol with some oaky tones too. Flavour is toffee, some alcohol, roasted malts and some alcohol tones with syrupy elements. Quite sweet and alcohol does burn on the gums. Still tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
from Alko (Webshop)
on 01 May 2026
at 14:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
-1 point for the irritating wax. Muddy deep-brown beer with a few seconds of cream head. Vanilla, Bourbon, dried red fruit, rum, chocolate, dessert liqueur. Chocolate, vanilla, alcohol & fusels. Oakwood. Full bodied, alcoholheat, so dense there's no alcoholthinning; medium carbonation. I've had better from Pühaste in this segment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2026
at 08:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Flarra utan PQ efter jobbet . Ja här finns kola samt bourbon och svagt choklad . Lite madeira . Mild är den??? konstigt då 14.5% ?! Bra öl men inte i fasen så bra som många andra från bryggeriet . Sa jag mild smak ?
Tried
on 01 Oct 2025
at 17:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
great barleywine, bit sweet, velvety, quite complex but also quite straight with not much from the barrel except bourbon notes. great sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Kihoskh
on 28 Sep 2025
at 16:56