Devil's Heart Of Gold
Perennial Artisan Ales

 

 

 

Classic medium brown pour, no head. Getting dark wheat, pecan, bourbon, dark fruit, honey, and molasses with a kiss of vanillins in the nose. Big caramel with pecan pie flavorings without sickly sweetness, take everything from nose plus subtle biscuit and oxidation underneath. Unique and super well done! Complex and inviting. Feel is boozy with sweeter malt, medium bodied, wheat runs through the whole body with waves of warm bourbon massaging everything. This is an excellent wheatwine

 

 

 

 

This one pours a golden dark brown color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This one smells like honey, vanilla, stone fruit, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and bourbon.

This is really excellent, and one of the more underrated entries in the Perennial barrel program. There's some sweetness, but the barrel, and it's drying qualities, are the star here, with some light fruitiness, caramel and bourbon, and oak spice, along with vanilla. There's also a light honey-like sweetness, with toffee, brown sugar, and even some maple candy.

This is medium bodied, with some pleasant warming booze, and a nice drinkability.

Wheatwines don't always stand up to the best barleywines, but this one really does the trick.

2019 bottle

Tan head. Murky brown color.

Very nice and warming bourbon. Smooth. Caramel, toffee, vanilla, oak. Dark, dried fruits. Apples. Pears.

Full bodied. Warming and smooth. This is a fantastic beer. Love the barrel flavor.

2019. Damn near perfect

 

originally had 2017 vintage in December of 2018, reviewed for 2021 vintage consumed 1/16/22. poured from a 750mL bottle into a snifter. pours a lighter, almost see through cardboard brown but settles in the glass a murky dark maroon with the faintest lining of bubbles around the edge of the glass. aromas of whiskey, stale and damp cardboard, dark cherries. taste follows. it’s almost got an old ale taste going on. whiskey barrel gets more prominent as it warms. full, slick mouthfeel. definitely a sipper. better as it warms and opens up. a really great cold weather companion. a very underrated addition in perennial’s impressive catalogue.

 

 

Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Red Session. Aroma has lots of dried fruits, mostly raisins, quite sugary and boozy. Taste is sweet and sugary with dried fruit notes but also acidic and boozy. Quite intense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another style that I'm not fond of!

Darker medium brown body, fair bit of head, not much lacing. Essentially butterscotch, heavy whiskey presence, toffee, earth, touch of vanillin, more malt. Malt-forward beer with a fair bit of heat, medium mouthfeel. This one is good, but not great.

 

 

Thanks to N-Gogol for sharing this with me. This Poured out as a nice golden color with a thin white head on top. The smell of the beer is sweet with some bourbon notes on it, some butterscotch in there too. The taste of the beer has some really nice caramel butterscotch flavors in there with a bit of oak spice in the finish. The feel is medium bodied. Overall this beer is very good and lucky to have had it.

 

 

 

L: pours a very thick dark rusty red/brown mix with no head.
S: Big awesome bourbon barrel as soon as I open the cap. Brown sugar and toffee sweetness.
T: bourbon soaked dark fruit and barrel. Huge caramel and toffee with the barrel taking the forefront, awesome barrel!
F: very thick, coating and smooth.

Blessings extraordinaire to Budah for this bottle that I’d long lusted after. 750ML bottle that I’ve looked forward to ever since the friendly FedEx man kicked it across my porch.

The pour is muddy red-brown clay with minimal visible carbonation - blink & it’s gone AWOL. Nose barks vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, & enough wood to make me suspect I was sitting next to Fourtown Lake. Nice.

Devil’s Heart of Gold - wow. Whiskey & Malts. The mild nose didn’t prepare me for the stiff shot of whiskey, cut only with malts that seem destined to clean me out better than an probiotic. I couldn’t get to the bottom of the caramel & toffee malts with my Vexilar - deep, rich, thick, & bearing the gift of smoothing alcohol. Strong, sharp oak. After all the aggressiveness, there’s leftover brown sugar, vanilla. Thick enough to stand a plastic spoon up in. I’d like to try to stand myself up in a vat of this, & drink my way out.

Oversized expectations too often lead to little disappointments. This one led to elation, moaning, & at one point a few dance moves to George Michael’s “Faith”. Yes, it’s that good. Doesn’t resemble a wheatwine, but when a beer is this close to perfection, who cares?

 

 

 

 

Batch 2. Poured on tap in a snifter, the beer is an opaque, muddled, brown coloring with a halo of tan head. Nose of molasses, toffee, date, fig, vanilla, and earthy highlights. Flavors are robust toffee, caramel, vanilla, and roasted grain overlays. Creamy smooth body, with bold old world fruit and toffee aftertaste. Smooth, slow finish, with a rich and boozy linger. Amazing beer!

Black wax capped 750mL bottle from CNRowland (many thanks!). Bottled 07/2016. Served in a Barrel and Barley teku.

Pours deep ruby with about two fingers of manilla head. The foam takes its time settling to a few surface wisps and a a narrow band around the edges that imparts only a few spots of lace.

Sweet, welcoming aromas of bourbon, caramel, oak, cereal, toffee and faint berries. Really nice and I just about can't keep my nose away from the glass.

The flavors are a beautifully rich blend of bourbon, caramel, wheat grain, maple, oak, toffee, vague seedy berries, and a pinch of booze. Delicious and despite the alcohol it goes down quite easily.

Syrupy full body with pillowy soft carbonation. Aftertaste of bourbon, sweet grainy wheat and caramel.

After trying the base about three years ago Devil's Heart of Gold has been a big want of mine. It is a truly delicious bourbon barrel aged wheat wine and exactly what I look for in the style. Many thanks to CNRowland for contacting me out of the blue to make it happen.