Beer For Derbies
Off Color Brewing
- From:
- Off Color Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- European Strong Lager
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 2.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 14, 2024
- Added:
- Aug 25, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Bourbon barrel-aged lager with mint.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Chuckdiesel24 from Illinois
4.45/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Best use of mint I can remember in a beer. Hits the mark.
Sep 07, 2020
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.21/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.21/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
As the first reviewer and rater for this beer released today (or nearly so), I, at the least, am entitled to comment on the style classification made by FBarber. It probably is correct... but with two important qualifications.
The first is that this lager is not all that European; in fact, Beer for Derbies is Midwestern... bourbon and mint and racing horsies. On the other hand, this seems an all-barley malt bill (rarely found in traditional American lagers) and there are European hops. Let's call it a dilemma, but the Euro Strong suits Beer for Derbies well enough for me to drink another.
Second, lagers are rarely aged in bourbon barrels; but this aging makes this lager exquisite... so the innovation is more than excused, it is encouraged.
Bottom-line given the classifications that we have to work with: this lager is a European Strong.... but it is in a class by itself.
Fortunately, I bought a 4-pack (and will give one of these treasures only to my closest friend as a gag gift.)
If you can get Beer for Derbies this weekend... get it.
Looks are a big bubble fluffy head with a clear golden base of a good lager. Smells are more bourbon and barley than mint. Tastes also are more bourbon than mint. In the mouth, clean... despite the bourbon and mint.
OA: I am a big fan of Off Color and Beer for Derbies gives me reason to believe that I have been right for at least two years. I hope this becomes a seasonal. To mix sports metaphors, Off Color very much hit a home run. But, how do they turn this into a Triple Crown?
5/6/23 No answer. But at least I had this again on the running of the 2023 Kentucky Derby. (More ho-hum than this beer.)
Sep 04, 2020The first is that this lager is not all that European; in fact, Beer for Derbies is Midwestern... bourbon and mint and racing horsies. On the other hand, this seems an all-barley malt bill (rarely found in traditional American lagers) and there are European hops. Let's call it a dilemma, but the Euro Strong suits Beer for Derbies well enough for me to drink another.
Second, lagers are rarely aged in bourbon barrels; but this aging makes this lager exquisite... so the innovation is more than excused, it is encouraged.
Bottom-line given the classifications that we have to work with: this lager is a European Strong.... but it is in a class by itself.
Fortunately, I bought a 4-pack (and will give one of these treasures only to my closest friend as a gag gift.)
If you can get Beer for Derbies this weekend... get it.
Looks are a big bubble fluffy head with a clear golden base of a good lager. Smells are more bourbon and barley than mint. Tastes also are more bourbon than mint. In the mouth, clean... despite the bourbon and mint.
OA: I am a big fan of Off Color and Beer for Derbies gives me reason to believe that I have been right for at least two years. I hope this becomes a seasonal. To mix sports metaphors, Off Color very much hit a home run. But, how do they turn this into a Triple Crown?
5/6/23 No answer. But at least I had this again on the running of the 2023 Kentucky Derby. (More ho-hum than this beer.)
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