Salted Caramel Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter
Anderson Valley Brewing Company

Anderson Valley BBA Salted Caramel Imperial Porter, 9.5% ABV. Pours brownish black with a 2.6 finger beige head that left very little lacing. Aroma is bourbon and caramel. Taste is caramel and salt, some bourbon, faintly sweet, slightly bitter. Decent mouthfeel, overall very goodish.

 

 

I don't know why this Minnesota casino had this beer on tap. I would guess no customers buy it. It is likely really old.,

Appearance was fine. The aroma suggested some funkiness. But the taste was highly objectionable. Overriding taste of rancid nuts. Under this was likely some fine flavors...but mostly covered up. I can't believe I drank this. Mouthfeel was fine.

Does Anderson Valley still make this? How did a keg show up in Northern Minnesota at a CASINO?

12 ounce can, Julian Date 23297 (24 October 2023) stamped on the bottom of the can. Big thanks to Brutaltruth for this! Served in a Teku glass, the beer pours a very dark brown color with about an inch tan head. Head retention and lacing are both pretty good. I like the aroma, the brew smells like bourbon, caramel, vanilla, salt and some oak. I think the taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but there's also a bit of chocolate and coconut flavors noticeable too. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's smooth and a bit creamy and slick with a good amount of carbonation. Easy enough to drink. I liked this brew, hope to try it again sometime. Certainly worth picking up if you come across some!

 

From the 12 oz can in a snifter. This solid little porter pours a
muddy dark brown with a moderate head of khaki foam that
settles to a thick ring, faint dusty layer, and sports some light lacing.
Nose of bourbon, caramel, light salinity, and faint oak. Flavors expand
nicely on the nose with a fine presentation of salted caramel, faint
coffee, subtle cocoa, light oak, and moderate vanilla dashed with some
toasted coconut. Mouth feel is medium, medium light teetering to
light carbonation, smooth, and finishing lightly warming and subtly
dry.

Overall, a solid little brew from a great brewery!

Cheers

Salted Caramel Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter pours, a very dark brown, with a small, lacing head. The aroma is sweet and salty. The flavor is filled with sweet and salty caramel notes. Good feel. Overall, a very sweet beer, lots of salted caramel coming through.

 

Bought a single 12oz can $4.99 Village Bottle Shop
23103 stamped on bottom. Maybe 4/13/2023 so 209 days old or 10/3/23 so 36 days old?
Smell of caramel, chocolate
Dark black color
Medium-heavy mouthfeel
Light-Medium carbonation
Taste of salted caramel, bourbon, smooth tasting, light creaminess
Overall it delivers on its name. Bourbon not as strong as I like it, but fairly good.

 

 

8/26/23 - comes in a four-pack of cans - Translucent coffee color, decently persistent thinnish head; Flavorful, interesting, different; Decent mouthfeel but unremarkable; Not bad. wouldn't refuse it if offered but probably not a re-buy.

Poured from a can to a pint glass. Thin finger head, which is awesome. Deep red-brown color, light bourbon on the nose but definite notes of malt/caramel, maybe even a bit of vanilla. Even more with taste and mouth feel. Slight bourbon and rich malty caramel taste with a palatable bourbon back-of-tongue lingering (I know, that sounds pretentious, but...). No alcohol burn, maybe a bit lighter in body than other porters, but to me this is a winner.

 

A 12 ounce can, poured at fridge temperature into a can glass.
It tried to bring up a little foam but fizzled to effervescance.
Fine aroma, sweet and mid roast. The bourbon barrel isn’t shy to step forward.
Taste is Werther’s candy, touch of salinity, toasty malt, mild bourbon and a warm finish.
Feel is porter thin, mid carb.
Overall, it’s better than I thought it would be. If there’s syrup in it, it’s well hidden. Pretty good porter.

nice boubon flavored carmel after taste easy drinking for a ble aged beer

 

Showing a richer, darker and more complex side of brewing, Anderson Valley gives an elevated porter recipe a bourbon barrel treatment for added charm

Salted Caramel Porter hits the glass with a medium brown hue, siding slightly with darker depths through the center. As a dense blanket of tan foam forms on the rim, the scent of caramel, toast, chocolate and nuttiness takes the nose. Sweet on the tongue, the early impressions are malty with toffee, caramel, vanilla, chocolate and candied coconut.

With the sweeter tone remaining firm and withstanding through the center, the beer trends slowly more chocolaty with a darker bittersweet tone and a growing sense of breakfast blend coffee. As a woodsiness shows late in its taste the balance shares a slight bitterness to offset some of its sweetness just as the bourbon spices of vanilla, oak, whisky and toasted coconut decorate the finish with complexity.

Full bodied, malty and off-cloying, the decidedly sweet beer seems like a drinkable version of bourbon ball candies as its finishes sweet and caramelized with the rounded salinity of salt additions adding a sense of heft and extended nougat fullness in aftertaste.

Ebony with a 1/4" tan head, which fades to a wisp. Moderate lacing.

Aroma of chocolate, caramel, salt, coffee.

Taste is salty caramel right off. Also, coffee, chocolate.

Medium body, light carbonation. Semisweet finish.

One of the best Porters I've had.