Barrel Reserve 2025
River North Brewery in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.23
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle pour. Pours dark brown with a small white head. Tons of whiskey & bourbon, brown sugar, sweet Belgian yeast on the nose. Flavour has an absurdly rich barrel character, good Belgian yeast character, dark sugars, some charred wood, a bit smoky. This is excellent, great barrels here.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
4 ounce at the Washington Street location - dark purple, pours looking still - nose is fig, coconut, treacle, tamarind, port wine - feels flat in the mouth - strong fig and tamarind, and the back end tastes like tawny port - like, so much that if I went in blind I might mistake it for port, especially with it’s lack of carbonation - now, I like port, so I suppose that isn’t a problem - lots of plum sweetness on the back end, some dark chocolate and oak - very warming alcohol, but not boozy - quite a dessert sipper here - it’s growing on me - okay, I dig it.