Pompier - Whiskey Barrel Aged
Pennichuck Brewing Company, Inc.
- From:
- Pennichuck Brewing Company, Inc.
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 12.1%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 11.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 07, 2012
- Added:
- Jul 17, 2009
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Bourbon barrel aged - it's not really much different than the standard version. Sure, there's a bit of bourbon flavor, and a hint of wood that adds to it, but with little there to begin with (for a barleywine anyway) that's not much.
It's a deep chestnut-brown with ruby accents beneath a limited head of bone-white. Minor lacing... just tiny spots. Alcohol, however, limits head retention, and at 12.1% I guess that's understandable.
The nose expresses a thin note of Bourbon over darkish malt (dark caramel) and yeasty fruitiness (apple and berries) as well as a little spice (alcohol?) and even a hint of coconut.
In the mouth it's medium bodied with a gently bristling carbonation and moderate heat from the alcohol.
The flavor is as the nose suggests with Bourbon wrapping a thin skin around a good blend of berry-like fruitiness and caramel maltiness. It's backed by a solid backing bitterness and some minor hop flavors. Spice enters mid-palate and continues through the swallow and into the finish, leaving it spicy and dry on the palate except for a mild residual note of light caramel and drying Bourbon and wood.
A decent enough beer to be sure, but not at all rich or complicated. The Bourbon adds a hint of complexity to it, but the base beer is just so "base". Fortunately, there's enough of a base beer there to support the Bourbon and wood flavors, and it comes off as pretty drinkable. It's more of an English style barleywine than anything else, but the Bourbon barrel aging gives it an American edge.
Jul 17, 2009It's a deep chestnut-brown with ruby accents beneath a limited head of bone-white. Minor lacing... just tiny spots. Alcohol, however, limits head retention, and at 12.1% I guess that's understandable.
The nose expresses a thin note of Bourbon over darkish malt (dark caramel) and yeasty fruitiness (apple and berries) as well as a little spice (alcohol?) and even a hint of coconut.
In the mouth it's medium bodied with a gently bristling carbonation and moderate heat from the alcohol.
The flavor is as the nose suggests with Bourbon wrapping a thin skin around a good blend of berry-like fruitiness and caramel maltiness. It's backed by a solid backing bitterness and some minor hop flavors. Spice enters mid-palate and continues through the swallow and into the finish, leaving it spicy and dry on the palate except for a mild residual note of light caramel and drying Bourbon and wood.
A decent enough beer to be sure, but not at all rich or complicated. The Bourbon adds a hint of complexity to it, but the base beer is just so "base". Fortunately, there's enough of a base beer there to support the Bourbon and wood flavors, and it comes off as pretty drinkable. It's more of an English style barleywine than anything else, but the Bourbon barrel aging gives it an American edge.
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