Terra Incognita - Barrel-Aged
Bronckhorster Brewing Company
- From:
- Bronckhorster Brewing Company
- Netherlands
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 3.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 21, 2020
- Added:
- Apr 16, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jeffo from Netherlands
3.47/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Got this one at De Bierkoning in Amsterdam
From a bottle into a snifter
APPEARANCE: Pours a small, faint, bubbly off-white head with decent retention. Clear, dark burnt orange in color with no carbonation evident. Head fades to a faint wisp and bubbly ring. A ring remains for a bit but it ends up looking rather flat by the end.
SMELL: Oak, vanilla and lots of nice coconut. Caramel and toffee accompany the other flavors from the oak barrel. Quite a lot of barrel in the nose.
TASTE: Spicy alcohol with oak and coconut sweetness up front. Lots of stuff at the swallow with more oak, coconut, alcohol and spicy yeast flavors, then some nice vanilla and toffee sweetness lingering on the palate. Bold and flavorful. Pretty good.
PALATE: Medium body and very low levels of carbonation. Silky slick on the palate, goes down fine and finishes very sticky. A good burn after the swallow. Ends up almost flat by the half way point, though that is not all that unusual for the style.
OVERALL: Enjoyed this one much more than the regular base beer, and it was closer to the barleywine style, being as the barrel basically drowned out the base beer all together. The sweet flavors the oak barrel lends are nicely complex and the fuller, less carbonated feel works much better for the style. Worth checking out if you get the chance, though I do hope that these guys take another stab at a quality base barleywine before throwing something in barrels again.
Apr 16, 2014From a bottle into a snifter
APPEARANCE: Pours a small, faint, bubbly off-white head with decent retention. Clear, dark burnt orange in color with no carbonation evident. Head fades to a faint wisp and bubbly ring. A ring remains for a bit but it ends up looking rather flat by the end.
SMELL: Oak, vanilla and lots of nice coconut. Caramel and toffee accompany the other flavors from the oak barrel. Quite a lot of barrel in the nose.
TASTE: Spicy alcohol with oak and coconut sweetness up front. Lots of stuff at the swallow with more oak, coconut, alcohol and spicy yeast flavors, then some nice vanilla and toffee sweetness lingering on the palate. Bold and flavorful. Pretty good.
PALATE: Medium body and very low levels of carbonation. Silky slick on the palate, goes down fine and finishes very sticky. A good burn after the swallow. Ends up almost flat by the half way point, though that is not all that unusual for the style.
OVERALL: Enjoyed this one much more than the regular base beer, and it was closer to the barleywine style, being as the barrel basically drowned out the base beer all together. The sweet flavors the oak barrel lends are nicely complex and the fuller, less carbonated feel works much better for the style. Worth checking out if you get the chance, though I do hope that these guys take another stab at a quality base barleywine before throwing something in barrels again.
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