Taps Brewery & Barrel Room

Brewpub in Tustin, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1999

Closed in 2023

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15501 Red Hill Ave, Tustin, CA, 92780, United States

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8.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Bottle - Bourbon, nice sweetness, graham cracker and some toasted coconut. Jet brown with a decent beige head. Sweet bourbon, coconut and silky dark molasses. So well balanced and smooth, unbelievable.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2015 at 17:11

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
750ml bottle pours out black topped with a brown head. Nose is amazing barrel vanilla barrel lots of sweetness lots of roast. Taste is more of the sweetness roast malts chocolate coffee vanilla barrel bourbon amazingly rich and thick.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2015 at 16:49

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Bottle shared. Pours near black with a ring beige head. Massive woody barrel notes in the aroma, with vanilla, bourbon, milk chocolate, marshmallow, caramel and toffee. Flavour is heavy sweet in a wonderful and completely non-cloying way. Medium thick oily palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 25 May 2015 at 17:09

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
75cl bottle sample via trade with Rado_ @ lucha libre night comes to LeRoeulx. Anno 2013 bottle. Couleur brune foncée, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme est malté, chocolaté avec un Bourbon juste magnifique, le tout sur des effluves de vanille, léger boisé de chêne avec en rétro qcq pointes de fruits noirs. Palais est épais avec un agréable et complexe profil de Bourbon qui confère de superbes notes de vanille. Le tout est un peu sec sur une pointe d’amertume en toute fin de bouche. Avec ses 12%, la chaleur de l’alcool se ressent pas mal sans pour cela être surfaite. Bière qui se laisse déguster et dont la caractère devient plus complexe au fil de la dégustation et alterne habilement entre Bourbon, malts à la fois chocolaté, grillé et légèrement fruité noir.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Mar 2015 at 08:29

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottled 75 cl at rlgk + Aniela tasting, USA comes to Göteborg 2014, on October 18, 2014.Thanks to _angst_!Marked 2012.Black color with reddish brown tints, clear. Small tan head. Alcohol, sweet, grainy scent. Cocoa, sweet, alcohol taste. Roasted, sweet aftertaste, also vanilla. Medium mouthfeel, to fizzy. Medium bitterness. Some coffee.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Oct 2014 at 11:12

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Opposite of white color with a beige head. Rich bourbon and chocolate aroma. Full body. Tad sweet and a fine bitterness. A bit oily. Rich bourbon, chocolate, coffee, vanilla and raisins in the flavor. Powerful stuff. Well masked alcohol.
[Bottle at rlgk plaza]
Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2014 at 07:14

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle received in trade. Thank you heatwaves! Pours black with a small mocha head that quickly dissipates without leaving any trace on the glass. Smell is sweet and malty with roasted malts, burnt caramel, vanilla fudge, charred wood, dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, raisins, black pepper corns and hints of soil. Taste is sweet, slightly bitter and malty with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toffee, vanilla fudge, dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, charred wood, minerals, raisins, dates, soil and hay. Mouthfeel is soft, round, velvety, tiny boozy and near full bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, bitter and malty with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toffee, vanilla fudge, charred wood, black pepper corns, bourbon, raisins, soil and . Incredible beer with a crazy nice barrel treatment. Doesn’t come off as too much or too hot. Just plain tasty with complexity and tastiness that blows you away. --- Beer merged from original tick of Remy's Pappy on 18 Oct 2014 at 16:15 - Score: 9
Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2014 at 07:14

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is berries, malt, yeast. Flavour is berries, malt, yeast, butter, caramel. Medium body. Boring beer.
Tried on 28 Sep 2014 at 22:51

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
[ As Taps Irish Red ].Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy to fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, toffee - fudge. Flavour is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, tart, fudge - caramel, fruity. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20140516]
Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2014 at 03:50

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish.
Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2014 at 06:26