Bourbon Barrel Aged Deprivation
Wiens Brewing Company
- From:
- Wiens Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 10.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 3.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 22, 2015
- Added:
- Oct 13, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DoubleJ from Wisconsin
3.61/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.61/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Take a Double India Dark Ale like Deprivation and barrel aged it in bourbon barrels. Served on-tap at the brewery in a snifter, on to the beer:
Black like an imperial stout and topped with a short lived head. The aroma is sweet bourbon crawls out of the glass and into my nostrils, creating a lovely nose candy. Adding notes of tree sap add a woodsy note to it as well. Not much of a DIDA underneath though.
Some will argue that aging a hoppy beer is a recipe for disaster. I say go for it if you can make it desirable. It's hard to tell if any progress was made with the addition of bourbon barrels to the recipe. Solid notes of pine, tree sap, a big shot of bourbon, a kiss of molasses, all coming through while the alcohol is hidden cleverly. However, that soy sauce aftertaste needs to be eliminated. It's nearly full bodied, and while it's something different and shows that Wiens is not afraid to go into barrel aging, wouldn't be the first thing I'd put on my "to drink" list.
Oct 13, 2014Black like an imperial stout and topped with a short lived head. The aroma is sweet bourbon crawls out of the glass and into my nostrils, creating a lovely nose candy. Adding notes of tree sap add a woodsy note to it as well. Not much of a DIDA underneath though.
Some will argue that aging a hoppy beer is a recipe for disaster. I say go for it if you can make it desirable. It's hard to tell if any progress was made with the addition of bourbon barrels to the recipe. Solid notes of pine, tree sap, a big shot of bourbon, a kiss of molasses, all coming through while the alcohol is hidden cleverly. However, that soy sauce aftertaste needs to be eliminated. It's nearly full bodied, and while it's something different and shows that Wiens is not afraid to go into barrel aging, wouldn't be the first thing I'd put on my "to drink" list.
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