Kentucky Old Fashioned Barrel Ale
Alltech's Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.

Kentucky Old Fashioned Barrel AleKentucky Old Fashioned Barrel Ale
Beer Geek Stats | Print Shelf Talker
From:
Alltech's Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.
 
Kentucky, United States
Style:
American Strong Ale
Ranked #129
ABV:
10%
Score:
85
Ranked #21,309
Avg:
3.76 | pDev: 11.17%
Reviews:
46
Ratings:
188
Status:
Active
Rated:
Yesterday at 12:23 AM
Added:
May 03, 2015
Wants:
  10
Gots:
  44
No description / notes.
View: More Beers
Recent ratings and reviews. | Log in to view more ratings + sorting options.
Ratings by beerrat:
Photo of beerrat
Rated by beerrat from Virginia

3.6/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Taste like a boiler maker
May 24, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.5 by LizT from Texas

Yesterday at 12:23 AM
 
Rated: 4.94 by Capt_Loomis from Florida

Mar 20, 2024
Photo of dd53grif
Reviewed by dd53grif from Michigan

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a medium dark red color with virtually no head. Aroma of grains. Taste is tangy with a strong alcohol flavour; almost like a mixed drink. Crisp and dry.
Mar 19, 2024
 
Rated: 3.54 by petrusek23 from Ohio

Jul 05, 2022
 
Rated: 3.8 by Gemini6 from Michigan

Aug 26, 2020
Photo of woodychandler
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania

4.16/5  rDev +10.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Thanks to a concerted effort on my part, there has been a significant reduction in the Bottle (Gasp!) Backlog here at Chez Woody. The effort continues with this beer.

From the Bottle (!): "Ale brewed with cherries and orange peel, aged in oak bourbon and bitters barrels".

I was intrigued by this one, so I Pop!ped the cap & started a slow, gentle C-Line pour into the awaiting glass. I was pleasantly surprised by the unbidden formation of just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, light-tan head with decent retention. Color was a solid-Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9) with NE-quality clarity. Nose was everything as advertised - orange, then cherry with a bourbon overlay! I am not a big cocktail guy, but I have had Old Fashioneds before & this was highly evocative of one. 8=O Cocktails! The greatest bartender of all-time, IMHO, Rocky Albrecht used to shout that immediately after taking the stick. 8=) Mouthfeel was big, but less creamy and more viscous & syrupy. 8=p I dislike sweet stuff & this was cloying. OTOH, the taste was really pleasant with the orange-cherry combination working really well with the barrel aging to create a taste that was very evocative of the classic cocktail. Finish was somewhere between semi-sweet & semi-dry with its alcohol definitely giving it a dryness. YMMV.
May 05, 2020
Photo of puboflyons
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

3.64/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
From the 12 fl. oz bottle with date of 10-28-2019. Sampled on Nov 23, 2019.

The pour is handsome enough with its medium amber brown appearance but a quick lived off-white head. Okay clarity.

I pick up a malt forward,, butterscotch, wooden, aroma with the cherries being lower profile than advertised. No booze though.

Medium to full body.

The booze is buried in the taste to but it definitely has a malty forward character. Again, the alcohol does not show up. This was a one time thing for me. I won't have it again.
Nov 23, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by h4ger from Connecticut

Sep 09, 2019
Photo of The_Mancannon_of_Slothrop
Reviewed by The_Mancannon_of_Slothrop from Wyoming

4.21/5  rDev +12%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
My rating is largely based on how true to form it is. This tastes so much like an old-fashioned that, honestly, it might just make some drinkers want the real thing.
Apr 03, 2019
 
Rated: 4.17 by 1481145 from Indiana

Mar 11, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Mar 05, 2019
 
Rated: 4.77 by shulmm02 from Ohio

Feb 16, 2019
Photo of Nass
Rated by Nass from Florida

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Quite sweet from the cherries with some bitterness on the finish, it's a decent old fashioned. Cheers B
Jan 17, 2019
 
Rated: 3.85 by Giggy from Michigan

Jan 11, 2019
 
Rated: 3.45 by Swizzz from Florida

Jan 06, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by Scott_McCool from Florida

Dec 28, 2018
Photo of jkblr
Reviewed by jkblr from Indiana

3.83/5  rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
12oz bottled 10/19/18 (2 months ago) poured into a becher glass at fridge temp 10% ABV. The beer pours bright dark honey amber in color with fizzy, quickly settling off white head. The head recedes to a pencil thin ring and leaves no lacing. The aroma is faint with cherry, caramel and cocktail bitters. The taste is semisweet caramel with minor hints of barrel, cherry and bitters. The balancing is done with the barrel, so no real hop bitterness & no sign of the 10% ABV. Mouthfeel is medium to thin bodied with very low carbonation and a dry finish. Overall, good. This one comes together a little bit better as it approaches room temperature.
Dec 26, 2018
 
Rated: 4.15 by bf7 from Pennsylvania

Dec 23, 2018
Photo of TonyLema1
Reviewed by TonyLema1 from South Carolina

3.79/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
L: clear copper color, small head, some lacing
S: sweet, some
T: some booze, some sweet malts, not a lot of flavor
O: huge mouthfeel, coats entire palate
F: nice sipper
Dec 10, 2018
Kentucky Old Fashioned Barrel Ale from Alltech's Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 188 ratings