Deforestation
Forked River Brewing Company
- From:
- Forked River Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 9.1%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 30.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 07, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 27, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Sawdust City Brewing Co.
Sawdust City meets the Forest City! Our first collaborative brew, Deforestation was lovingly crafted by the fine folks at Sawdust City and your friends here at FRBC. It's as big and bold as the name implies: a 9.1% bourbon barrel-aged imperial brown ale.
Sawdust City meets the Forest City! Our first collaborative brew, Deforestation was lovingly crafted by the fine folks at Sawdust City and your friends here at FRBC. It's as big and bold as the name implies: a 9.1% bourbon barrel-aged imperial brown ale.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jeffo from Netherlands
1.06/5 rDev -67.1%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1.06/5 rDev -67.1%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Got this one from Hopsolutely last summer
From a 500ml bottle into a snifter
Vintage: 2014
Bourbon BA imperial Brown Ale
APPEARANCE: This one’s a foamer. Pours a monster, huge, loose and foamy light tan head. Dark brown body with piles of carbonation. Head never quits. Doesn’t look promising.
SMELL: Sour and tart. Lots of cardboard and metal. Some alcohol. That’s it. Definitely off.
TASTE: Same as the nose. Sour, tart and oxidized. Cardboard and lots of acidic sourness and alcohol all over this one. Terrible.
PALATE: Foamy and way over carbonated. Dry and acidic after the swallow.
OVERALL: Typical infected flair. Seems to be oxidized too. What is this, the fourth terrible Forked River beer so far? I’m starting to see a trend here. Avoid this one.
Sep 07, 2016From a 500ml bottle into a snifter
Vintage: 2014
Bourbon BA imperial Brown Ale
APPEARANCE: This one’s a foamer. Pours a monster, huge, loose and foamy light tan head. Dark brown body with piles of carbonation. Head never quits. Doesn’t look promising.
SMELL: Sour and tart. Lots of cardboard and metal. Some alcohol. That’s it. Definitely off.
TASTE: Same as the nose. Sour, tart and oxidized. Cardboard and lots of acidic sourness and alcohol all over this one. Terrible.
PALATE: Foamy and way over carbonated. Dry and acidic after the swallow.
OVERALL: Typical infected flair. Seems to be oxidized too. What is this, the fourth terrible Forked River beer so far? I’m starting to see a trend here. Avoid this one.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
4.01/5 rDev +24.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev +24.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
500 mL bottle picked up at the brewery last month; served slightly chilled.
Pours an opaque brownish-black colour, producing more than two inches of prodigiously fluffy, light tan-coloured froth at the surface. It looks like off-coloured whipped cream, or perhaps meringue - very impressive retention, too. It's the sort of head that looks like it belongs on top of a Belgian beer. Seriously, more than ten minutes in, it's still sitting above the rim of the glass - and when it finally DOES drop below that mark, the glass gets completely caked with foamy lace. It's just plain gorgeous. Enticing aroma, too - there's some sponge toffee and molasses, with notes of roasted nuts, cocoa, plum, raisin, and even some licorice. Bourbon, oak and vanilla also come through, becoming more noticeable as the glass warms.
Pretty tasty; a little more fruit-forward than on the nose. Plum and raisin provide a light, initial touch of sugar, while flavours of dark chocolate and toffee rush in next, offering up a more substantial sweetness. Notes of hazelnut and coffee are detectable mid-sip, but it is the barrel features - oak, vanilla, and of course bourbon - which become more dominant near the finish. Touches of earthy bitterness and licorice finish things up, with a slightly boozy warmth lingering into the off-dry aftertaste. Medium-bodied, with firm levels of carbonation that provide a somewhat crisp, prickly mouthfeel - feels satisfying on the palate, though it may be a touch too fizzy for my tastes. This one goes down more easily than most BBA fare tends to, but it's still very much a sipper.
[Updated Aug 27 2016]
Finally cracked my second bottle. Deforestation probably isn't the most memorable BBA beer you'll ever try, but on two occasions I've still enjoyed it substantially. Well-balanced, but not particularly complex - strong and boozy, but a little thinner in body than I'd prefer - almost foamy now, as the bottle conditioning has kept it lively and well-carbonated. It has held up well after about 1.5 years in the cellar, and I hope that Sawdust City and the Forest City's most prolific brewer will pair up again in the future, to once more produce this very nice brown ale.
Final Grade: 4.01, an A-.
Mar 27, 2015Pours an opaque brownish-black colour, producing more than two inches of prodigiously fluffy, light tan-coloured froth at the surface. It looks like off-coloured whipped cream, or perhaps meringue - very impressive retention, too. It's the sort of head that looks like it belongs on top of a Belgian beer. Seriously, more than ten minutes in, it's still sitting above the rim of the glass - and when it finally DOES drop below that mark, the glass gets completely caked with foamy lace. It's just plain gorgeous. Enticing aroma, too - there's some sponge toffee and molasses, with notes of roasted nuts, cocoa, plum, raisin, and even some licorice. Bourbon, oak and vanilla also come through, becoming more noticeable as the glass warms.
Pretty tasty; a little more fruit-forward than on the nose. Plum and raisin provide a light, initial touch of sugar, while flavours of dark chocolate and toffee rush in next, offering up a more substantial sweetness. Notes of hazelnut and coffee are detectable mid-sip, but it is the barrel features - oak, vanilla, and of course bourbon - which become more dominant near the finish. Touches of earthy bitterness and licorice finish things up, with a slightly boozy warmth lingering into the off-dry aftertaste. Medium-bodied, with firm levels of carbonation that provide a somewhat crisp, prickly mouthfeel - feels satisfying on the palate, though it may be a touch too fizzy for my tastes. This one goes down more easily than most BBA fare tends to, but it's still very much a sipper.
[Updated Aug 27 2016]
Finally cracked my second bottle. Deforestation probably isn't the most memorable BBA beer you'll ever try, but on two occasions I've still enjoyed it substantially. Well-balanced, but not particularly complex - strong and boozy, but a little thinner in body than I'd prefer - almost foamy now, as the bottle conditioning has kept it lively and well-carbonated. It has held up well after about 1.5 years in the cellar, and I hope that Sawdust City and the Forest City's most prolific brewer will pair up again in the future, to once more produce this very nice brown ale.
Final Grade: 4.01, an A-.
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