Bad Boy Bubbly
Moon Dog Craft Brewery
- From:
- Moon Dog Craft Brewery
- Australia
- Style:
- Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut
- ABV:
- 13.1%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 14.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 27, 2015
- Added:
- Mar 06, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.8/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.8/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Moon Dog, who never cease to amaze with terrible pun names and crazy beer ideas, have concocted this beer that they deem as a “Barley Champagne” due to the addition of Champagne yeast to a Barleywine. Anyway throw in a reference to Rolf de Heer’s twisted film and I’m in the least intrigued (even if I found the film in question to be a bit too disturbing for my tastes).
Poured from a 330ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Pale clear straw gold colour with a non-existent briefly white head and minimal carbonation action going on. Possibly one of the most interesting coloured beers I’ve ever seen with a gold that would make Goldfinger (the villain of the eponymous Bond film) lustful. it’s a 9/10 for being so damn golden.
S: Vinous aroma with a Brut/Sauv Blanc slant containing: Gooseberry, passion fruit, lychee and apricot. The aroma is spot on as advertised and quite enticing to the occasional white wine drinker in me (had some Retsina last night actually). 9/10.
T: Before the first sip you’re expecting dry Brut Champagne flavours then the taste mugs you with a massive Botrytis uppercut - then the back of the throat gets a left hook of that 13.1% ABV that you were expecting. The above characters of that gooseberry/passion fruit/lychee/apricot never really manage to overcome the heady sugar/alcohol hit within this drop - a slight shame but it’s still quite an interesting brew regardless and you can get a sense of Champagne in the aftertaste. 7/10.
M: A viscous wine-like body with some light but razor sharp carbonation bodes well for this Barleywine (with a capital ‘W’ in wine). 7/10.
D: It’s hard to get past how interesting, and how extreme, this brew is, and you really don’t expect anything less than insane from Moon Dog, however this beer is even more niche than your usual Moon Dog (and that is saying a lot!) so be wary of this if you should happen to try Bad Boy Bubbly. Personally I liked this as an example of how wine-like a Barley“wine” can get and even though it was a quick to slap me down like Champagne seems to do to me (must be the yeast?) I would give it another go if I see it again. 7/10.
Food match: Hard shelled sea food - crab, lobster, oyster, mussels - would work best with this wine-imitator.
Sep 27, 2015Poured from a 330ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Pale clear straw gold colour with a non-existent briefly white head and minimal carbonation action going on. Possibly one of the most interesting coloured beers I’ve ever seen with a gold that would make Goldfinger (the villain of the eponymous Bond film) lustful. it’s a 9/10 for being so damn golden.
S: Vinous aroma with a Brut/Sauv Blanc slant containing: Gooseberry, passion fruit, lychee and apricot. The aroma is spot on as advertised and quite enticing to the occasional white wine drinker in me (had some Retsina last night actually). 9/10.
T: Before the first sip you’re expecting dry Brut Champagne flavours then the taste mugs you with a massive Botrytis uppercut - then the back of the throat gets a left hook of that 13.1% ABV that you were expecting. The above characters of that gooseberry/passion fruit/lychee/apricot never really manage to overcome the heady sugar/alcohol hit within this drop - a slight shame but it’s still quite an interesting brew regardless and you can get a sense of Champagne in the aftertaste. 7/10.
M: A viscous wine-like body with some light but razor sharp carbonation bodes well for this Barleywine (with a capital ‘W’ in wine). 7/10.
D: It’s hard to get past how interesting, and how extreme, this brew is, and you really don’t expect anything less than insane from Moon Dog, however this beer is even more niche than your usual Moon Dog (and that is saying a lot!) so be wary of this if you should happen to try Bad Boy Bubbly. Personally I liked this as an example of how wine-like a Barley“wine” can get and even though it was a quick to slap me down like Champagne seems to do to me (must be the yeast?) I would give it another go if I see it again. 7/10.
Food match: Hard shelled sea food - crab, lobster, oyster, mussels - would work best with this wine-imitator.
Reviewed by heygeebee from Australia
3.44/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Hmmm.
Barley champagne no... Far too sweet.
Loads of mango and apricot on nose, really quite sweet.
Very very vinous tho and a real hybrid beer wine.
Not altogether drinkable tho at the ABV which does creep up as very warming which wine at the same ABV would not.
Not a hit, not a miss.
Aug 15, 2015Barley champagne no... Far too sweet.
Loads of mango and apricot on nose, really quite sweet.
Very very vinous tho and a real hybrid beer wine.
Not altogether drinkable tho at the ABV which does creep up as very warming which wine at the same ABV would not.
Not a hit, not a miss.
Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia
2.92/5 rDev -21.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
2.92/5 rDev -21.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
Pours pale gold with a fading head.
Nose shows grapes, passion fruit, lychee and white wine.
Boozy flavours, but there's some more of the fruit before the cloying, sweet, and boozy finish rolls through.
Definitely hits the mark in replicating champagne...
Apr 07, 2015Nose shows grapes, passion fruit, lychee and white wine.
Boozy flavours, but there's some more of the fruit before the cloying, sweet, and boozy finish rolls through.
Definitely hits the mark in replicating champagne...
Reviewed by admiral from Australia
3.69/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very interesting beer/wine - definitely worth trying and great if you like your beer and wine; a nice combination of both
aroma has a slight sourness/tartness to it.
taste: passionfruit, orange juice, apricot, vanilla and malt. Hides the 13% alcohol quite well.
Mar 30, 2015aroma has a slight sourness/tartness to it.
taste: passionfruit, orange juice, apricot, vanilla and malt. Hides the 13% alcohol quite well.
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