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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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Opaque colour, tiny beige head. Aroma is toasted, sweetish with toffee and portwine, light soya sauce. Full-bodied. Sweetish, plum, toasted malts, portwine, berries, toffee, bourbon in the flavour. Hides ABV reasonably well. Good and complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2025
at 21:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Smell of raisins, bourbon, rye bread. Cloudy brown colour, miniscule beige head. Aroma of rye bread, oak, bourbon, toffee, booze. Soft carbon. Very sweet.
Tried
from Draft
at
60's Palaver
on 24 May 2025
at 17:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with short fizzy tan head that settles quickly. Aromas of caramel nougat, raisins, sweet bourbon, a bit of chocolate fudge and toasted malts. Flavors brown sugar, raisins, bourbon and toasted malts. Quite warm and sweet, but still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
De Struise Beershop
on 14 May 2025
at 23:07