Thrice Baked
Tree House Brewing Company

 

Brewers notes: Thrice Baked - Apple Pie is the direct descendant to one of our all-time favorite beers, Double Baked. In order to make Thrice Baked, first we put our robust barleywine, Tree of Life, into second-use apple brandy barrels. After aging for over a year, we blended this with a thread of our Blonde Barleywine, which has been aging for over two years in select bourbon barrels, before finally adding whole vanilla beans and cinnamon into the mix. The result is a complex confectionary treat full of spiced apple character, warming cinnamon, and comforting vanilla, interwoven with traditional barrel-aged barleywine flavors of brown sugar, fruit leather, and subtle tobacco. This decadent libation is a true sipper

Chilled 12 oz bottle poured into an Izark brewing snifter

Dark murky cola brown liquid , thin tan ring quickly disappears

Aroma is spiced apples, cinnamon, vanilla custard , tobacco

Taste is apple, brandy, cinnamon, raisins, brown sugar

Syrupy, thick mouthfeel with some slight brandy heat

Good beer

 

 

 

 

 

Pours murky, chestnut in color with minimal head. Taste is cinnamon apple oatmeal with vanilla, caramel, and oak. Heavy body, low carbonation, slightly sweet. Big oatmeal vibes....unsure if it is worth the big price but it is good and about as apple forward a beer as I have ever had. That said, ten dollars cheaper, I would get this a couple times a month.

 

 

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a 12 oz stemmed tulip

Thanks to WunderLlama for this one

The beer pours a reddish brown color with no highlights when held up to the light. An aggressive pour yields virtually no head and there is no visible lacing.

The aroma is big and boozy, with notes of baked apples, vanilla, brandy, caramel, and dark fruit.

The flavor is just as big as the aroma; apple brandy, baked apples, prunes, vanilla, caramel, and cinnamon. There is a warming booziness, and a "apple pie moonshine" aftertaste. Medium bodied and lightly carbonated. The beer is slick on the tongue

Overall, this is a nice sipping beer with alot of complex flavors. I really enjoyed this one!

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

This smells like roasted and spiced apples, cinnamon, vanilla, maple, and caramel.

Double Baked was ultimately more successful than this one. The cinnamon teeters on too liberally added, but the apple brandy barrels definitely give this a pleasant sweetness that helps overcome that, somewhat. There’s a lot of vanilla here, a bit more than Tree House would typically be known for, with also some caramel, oakiness, and a touch of milk chocolate.

This is medium bodied, slightly syrupy, but not aggressively so, with a nice drinkability overall.

I definitely enjoyed this, but also definitely enjoyed Double Baked much more.

 

Pours a deep reddish brown. Aroma is wonderfully sweet -- caramel, spice, dark fruits & barrel. Taste follows nose and wonderful combination of caramel, cinnamon spice, apple brandy, dark fruits and vanilla. Mouthfeel is light end of medium. Overall really strong barleywine.

A - Dark raison burgundy colored pour with no lacing or carbonation, with alot of oozy viscosity.

S - Apple brandy, pie crust, and subtle spice.

T - Apple, Apple Brandy, spice, and booze with lingering Apple Brandy.

M - Syrupy, silky texture with warming on the way down.

O - Solid and glad to have tried.

 

 

 

 

Caramel and butterscotch drizzled apple pie a la mode, cinnamon apples, dark red plums, and a bourbon barrel nose on this one! Nice aromatics! Taste follows with a soft and smooth, subdued toffee and cinnamon red apple, bourbon boozy finish. The nose>taste here IMO...as the apple pie topped with vanilla ice cream popped on the nose, it was a touch muted on the palate. The aromatics had me salivating in anticipation, but the taste buds were let down a little bit. Still enjoyable and good, I just wish the additions popped more on the palate.