Vow Of Silence - Whiskey Barrel Aged
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 12.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 08, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
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Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.26/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.26/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Day 23 of the Parallel 49/Central City advent calendar. 341ml bottle poured into tulip.
Pours a deep reddish copper with one fat finger of light beige head that rocky landscape lace as it recedes.
Smells of buttery Christmas cookies with sugary jam, caramel tarts, and boozy barrel wood.
Tastes of big caramel malt, more Safeway Christmas cookies, buttery popcorn and obtrusive whiskey barrel vanilla.
Feels heavy and sticky. Full bodied with mild carbonation. Finishes sweet and buttery.
Verdict. Not bad, but I wouldn't buy another of these.
Dec 24, 2015Pours a deep reddish copper with one fat finger of light beige head that rocky landscape lace as it recedes.
Smells of buttery Christmas cookies with sugary jam, caramel tarts, and boozy barrel wood.
Tastes of big caramel malt, more Safeway Christmas cookies, buttery popcorn and obtrusive whiskey barrel vanilla.
Feels heavy and sticky. Full bodied with mild carbonation. Finishes sweet and buttery.
Verdict. Not bad, but I wouldn't buy another of these.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.48/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
341ml bottle, day 23 of the 2015 Craft Crossing Calendar, a 'collaborative' effort once again between Parallel 49 and Central City brewing. I love the 'regular' Vow of Silence, let's see what a bit o' the wood does for it.
This beer pours a clear, medium orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some rainforest canopy lace around the glass as it slowly blows off.
It smells of musty caramel malt, buttery toffee squares, a muddled dark orchard fruitiness, some Bourbon (no, more like Tennessee Whiskey) boozy and corny astringencies, and a very underwhelming earthy and weedy hop bitterness. The taste is doughy caramel malt, very buttery Christmas shortbread, a twinge of indistinct seasonal spice, more edgy Jack Daniel's barrel character (vanilla, wood, and corn, mostly), and a sense of hovering, but not quite alighting booziness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous and lazy-seeming frothiness, the body a near heavyweight for the style, and mostly smooth, but for that buttery thing, which takes things down a peg here, invoking minor thoughts of clamminess. It finishes sweet, cloying, and replete with vanilla, caramel, and diacetyl up the yin-yang.
Yeah, the barrel chosen here (not actually specified) doesn't do much for the relative merits of the base offering, I gotta say. The butter and vanilla essences extracted from the wood (I presume) obfuscate the heady fruit, malt, and yeast of that monk-aping brew I so adored upon first contact a few years ago. Oh well, it's a warming, slow sipper, I guess.
Dec 23, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some rainforest canopy lace around the glass as it slowly blows off.
It smells of musty caramel malt, buttery toffee squares, a muddled dark orchard fruitiness, some Bourbon (no, more like Tennessee Whiskey) boozy and corny astringencies, and a very underwhelming earthy and weedy hop bitterness. The taste is doughy caramel malt, very buttery Christmas shortbread, a twinge of indistinct seasonal spice, more edgy Jack Daniel's barrel character (vanilla, wood, and corn, mostly), and a sense of hovering, but not quite alighting booziness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous and lazy-seeming frothiness, the body a near heavyweight for the style, and mostly smooth, but for that buttery thing, which takes things down a peg here, invoking minor thoughts of clamminess. It finishes sweet, cloying, and replete with vanilla, caramel, and diacetyl up the yin-yang.
Yeah, the barrel chosen here (not actually specified) doesn't do much for the relative merits of the base offering, I gotta say. The butter and vanilla essences extracted from the wood (I presume) obfuscate the heady fruit, malt, and yeast of that monk-aping brew I so adored upon first contact a few years ago. Oh well, it's a warming, slow sipper, I guess.
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