Doctor's Orders Prescription 12 Elixir
Doctor's Orders Brewing
- From:
- Doctor's Orders Brewing
- Australia
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 9.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 05, 2012
- Added:
- Nov 05, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A very special limited edition of the wider release Prescription 12 (details below) blended with Prescription 12 that was aged in a rum barrel.
Released for Sydney Craft Beer Week (SCBW) 2012, it was available at the 2012 Seasonal Showcase at the Union Hotel in Newtown and Harts Pub Meet the Brewer session.
The blend was 50% rum barrel aged and 50% base Prescription 12. The barrel portion fermented further than the regular version by an extra 8-10 gravity points.
70 IBU
Released for Sydney Craft Beer Week (SCBW) 2012, it was available at the 2012 Seasonal Showcase at the Union Hotel in Newtown and Harts Pub Meet the Brewer session.
The blend was 50% rum barrel aged and 50% base Prescription 12. The barrel portion fermented further than the regular version by an extra 8-10 gravity points.
70 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
On-tap during the Doctor's Orders takeover of the Union Hotel in Newtown during Sydney Craft Beer Week. The Elixir version of the Prescription 12 was aged in oak, otherwise, it's the same beer.
Pours a dull, oily black colour with huge sediment in the glass. Very thickly hazed, and very thick in the glass. It's oily: liquid only by name. Head is a mild taupe colour, with bubbly, aerated consistency. Not much lace and no visible carbonation.
Nose is boozy like anything. Rum, sugar and toffee come through along with a small amount of oak, but the oak lends no supple, woody smoothness: it's rush alcohol all the way. Slight coffee characters come through as well, but it's almost a harshness. Dark and brutal. Powerful, at least.
Taste starts with a spicy booziness along with some cheesy notes and a bit of greenness. Middle palate allows the oak to come through, but lingers with a subtle hint of seaweed, water-logged wood and moss. The finish has more traditional oak characters, wood, wine and a dry yeasty finish. It's very, very weird, and it's a stack of really disparate and slightly anarchic characters all working against each other.
Feel is light, but gooey. Almost no carbonation at all.
I'm not convinced it works, overall, but it's crazy at least. Unfortunately, it feels a little bit like it's just throwing a whole bunch of shit together without caring how the beer ends up at the end. What you end up with is pretty messy and unfocused, as though it doesn't really know what it wants to be.
Nov 05, 2012Pours a dull, oily black colour with huge sediment in the glass. Very thickly hazed, and very thick in the glass. It's oily: liquid only by name. Head is a mild taupe colour, with bubbly, aerated consistency. Not much lace and no visible carbonation.
Nose is boozy like anything. Rum, sugar and toffee come through along with a small amount of oak, but the oak lends no supple, woody smoothness: it's rush alcohol all the way. Slight coffee characters come through as well, but it's almost a harshness. Dark and brutal. Powerful, at least.
Taste starts with a spicy booziness along with some cheesy notes and a bit of greenness. Middle palate allows the oak to come through, but lingers with a subtle hint of seaweed, water-logged wood and moss. The finish has more traditional oak characters, wood, wine and a dry yeasty finish. It's very, very weird, and it's a stack of really disparate and slightly anarchic characters all working against each other.
Feel is light, but gooey. Almost no carbonation at all.
I'm not convinced it works, overall, but it's crazy at least. Unfortunately, it feels a little bit like it's just throwing a whole bunch of shit together without caring how the beer ends up at the end. What you end up with is pretty messy and unfocused, as though it doesn't really know what it wants to be.
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