Devil's Advocate
Wayward Brewing Co.
- From:
- Wayward Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- Eisbock
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 1.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 17, 2014
- Added:
- Oct 18, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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The flagship of our Special Reserve Series, Devil’s Advocate is a full bodied Eisbock with notes of honey and dried fruit and a complex palate of apricot, chocolate and sherry. Aged on oak to lend a smooth smokey finish. Enjoy with rich food, dark chocolate, strong cheese or on its own by a warm fire with special friends. Will improve with careful cool cellaring for two or more years.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.84/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Bottle gifted to me by the brewer and shared with family at an Afghan restaurant (because where else, right?)
Looks dark-brown, cocoa coloured, small head with beige-coloured foam. Leave some decent lace. Not bad looking for the size.
Smells tropical and fruity. Lots of pineapple with coconut and lots of dark fruit too. Currants, sultanas and cherry skins. Yeah, oak sweetness, cherry and sorbet. Pleasant, boozey overtones.
Taste is more vinous. Notes of red wine, with coffee roast, then gets coconut on mid palate, sweetness on the back with big booze notes to finish. Blended well with flavours and not too hot, just rich, and maybe slightly oxidised. Dark fruits with raisins, prune and a touch of pepper. Big beer as expected, well reined in with a lovely touch of oak to add sweetness and an extra dimension.
Bit sharp towards the back, but otherwise decent body for the style. Flat, which is good.
I like a good eisbock, and this is a good eisbock.
Jul 17, 2014Looks dark-brown, cocoa coloured, small head with beige-coloured foam. Leave some decent lace. Not bad looking for the size.
Smells tropical and fruity. Lots of pineapple with coconut and lots of dark fruit too. Currants, sultanas and cherry skins. Yeah, oak sweetness, cherry and sorbet. Pleasant, boozey overtones.
Taste is more vinous. Notes of red wine, with coffee roast, then gets coconut on mid palate, sweetness on the back with big booze notes to finish. Blended well with flavours and not too hot, just rich, and maybe slightly oxidised. Dark fruits with raisins, prune and a touch of pepper. Big beer as expected, well reined in with a lovely touch of oak to add sweetness and an extra dimension.
Bit sharp towards the back, but otherwise decent body for the style. Flat, which is good.
I like a good eisbock, and this is a good eisbock.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.92/5 rDev +1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Tried from a bottle blind from @LaitueGonflable to accompany an Afghani dinner.
Pours a deep, volatile, boozy brown with lots of hazing in the body. It's quite fluid and liquid in the glass, but with a sense that it's big. Only minor head on it: it settles out very quickly.
Lots of phenolics and esters coming through on the nose. I got banana, weizeny spices and serious booze which gives of raisins, rum-soaked dates, and banana leaf. There's a slight sulphur character as well which isn't all that welcome, but otherwise it's pretty impressive.
Taste is thin and hot, with a withering ripeness and strength to the booze. Lots of dark fruit characters coming through but always pitted against that boozy sharpness which pierces and eviscerates it. Some stewed raspberry on the back along with a darkness that's almost inseparable from the booze. Finish is long, boozy and extremely sharp. It's intense stuff.
Feel is sharp, hot and boozy. It almost hurts.
There is impressive weight and heft of alcohol to this, and it plays with it well enough. The sharpness precludes it from being anything else but a sipper, but when you do sip and savour this it has stacks to show off.
Oct 18, 2013Pours a deep, volatile, boozy brown with lots of hazing in the body. It's quite fluid and liquid in the glass, but with a sense that it's big. Only minor head on it: it settles out very quickly.
Lots of phenolics and esters coming through on the nose. I got banana, weizeny spices and serious booze which gives of raisins, rum-soaked dates, and banana leaf. There's a slight sulphur character as well which isn't all that welcome, but otherwise it's pretty impressive.
Taste is thin and hot, with a withering ripeness and strength to the booze. Lots of dark fruit characters coming through but always pitted against that boozy sharpness which pierces and eviscerates it. Some stewed raspberry on the back along with a darkness that's almost inseparable from the booze. Finish is long, boozy and extremely sharp. It's intense stuff.
Feel is sharp, hot and boozy. It almost hurts.
There is impressive weight and heft of alcohol to this, and it plays with it well enough. The sharpness precludes it from being anything else but a sipper, but when you do sip and savour this it has stacks to show off.
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