River North Brewery Barrel Reserve 2025

Barrel Reserve 2025

 

River North Brewery in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production
Score
7.23
ABV: 20.0% IBU: - Ticks: 2
2x barrel aged Belgian dark strong ale
 

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8.3/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2025 at 00:23

7.8/10 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.
Tried from Draft at River North Brewery on 25 May 2025 at 20:54