Bourbon Barrel Aged Orange Giant - Batch No. 6
Ecliptic Brewing

Bourbon Barrel Aged Orange Giant - Batch No. 6Bourbon Barrel Aged Orange Giant - Batch No. 6
Beer Geek Stats
From:
Ecliptic Brewing
 
Oregon, United States
Style:
American Barleywine
ABV:
15%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.79 | pDev: 2.64%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 20, 2022
Added:
Jun 01, 2022
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
Our truly massive Barrel-Aged Orange Giant Barleywine Ale is back for 2021 featuring two different releases: Rye Whiskey Barrel-Aged and Bourbon Barrel-Aged. This version spent 12 months aging in Freeland Spirits bourbon barrels, developing notes of orange, honey, coconut and oak.
View: More Beers
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.89 by dms1767 from Nebraska

Oct 20, 2022
Photo of beergoot
Reviewed by beergoot from Colorado

3.69/5  rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Moderately hazy, brownish-orange body topped with a thin yet persistent head, dense and creamy; thick, sticky sheets of foam coat the glass. Great smell of caramel and oak. The taste follows along with the smell and adds a mild note of orange and brown sugar; boozy with a lingering phenolic note. Heavy, velvety body; boozy; light acrid bite; thick residual sugar presence.

Some of the phenol presence may be attributable to the high ABV, but there seems to be more of the band-aid flavor and bite than just because of that. I'd guess some sort of beer interaction with the oak. The beer is rich and heavy with some nice bits of barrel aging, but the relatively strong medicinal factor in the taste is a big distraction. The off-taste does mellow out a small bit as the beer warms.

Pouring temperature: 41 °F; bottling data: 12.2021
Jun 01, 2022