Old Mad Joy - Woodford Barrel-Aged
Great Raft Brewing
- From:
- Great Raft Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 26, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 21, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Old Mad Joy is a Baltic porter with layered malt complexities of chocolate, coffee and roasted barley. This dark and rich lager shines with a boozy but restrained sweetness and builds a slight fruitiness as it warms.
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
4.18/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
$ 17.28 (Including shipping)/22 oz bottle ($ 0.785/oz) from Tavour, Seattle, WA.
“BOTTLED 1/8/19” on bottom left of label. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 52 degrees (per label instructions) in a hand-washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 63 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Dark brown, clear.
Body – Dark brown/black, opaque, slight effervescence.
Head – Large (Maximum 4.5 cm, aggressive center pour), khaki, dense, short retention, diminishing to a two to three mm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None – not surprising for a 10% ABV brew.
Aroma – 4.25 – Chocolate, bourbon.
Flavor – 4.5 – Begins with bourbon followed by a lot of alcohol (10% ABV) and a bit of char and chocolate. The alcohol becomes more noticeable as it warms. No malt, no coffee, no dimethylsulfide, no diacetyl. Oddly, despite the taste of the alcohol, gastric warming is only minimal.
Palate – 3 - Medium, almost creamy, lively carbonation bordering on fizzy.
Impression and summation – 4.25 – The worst feature of this beer is the fizziness as expressed by poor head retention and fizzy mouthfeel. The aroma is quite good and, once the fizziness eases off, the flavors blend and mellow out the naked alcohol. I would suggest waiting until the temperature has reached the low 60s rather than consuming at the bottle-suggested 52 degrees.
May 25, 2019“BOTTLED 1/8/19” on bottom left of label. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 52 degrees (per label instructions) in a hand-washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 63 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Dark brown, clear.
Body – Dark brown/black, opaque, slight effervescence.
Head – Large (Maximum 4.5 cm, aggressive center pour), khaki, dense, short retention, diminishing to a two to three mm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None – not surprising for a 10% ABV brew.
Aroma – 4.25 – Chocolate, bourbon.
Flavor – 4.5 – Begins with bourbon followed by a lot of alcohol (10% ABV) and a bit of char and chocolate. The alcohol becomes more noticeable as it warms. No malt, no coffee, no dimethylsulfide, no diacetyl. Oddly, despite the taste of the alcohol, gastric warming is only minimal.
Palate – 3 - Medium, almost creamy, lively carbonation bordering on fizzy.
Impression and summation – 4.25 – The worst feature of this beer is the fizziness as expressed by poor head retention and fizzy mouthfeel. The aroma is quite good and, once the fizziness eases off, the flavors blend and mellow out the naked alcohol. I would suggest waiting until the temperature has reached the low 60s rather than consuming at the bottle-suggested 52 degrees.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.19/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.19/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
On-draught @ Avenue Pub, New Orleans.
Barrel sugars and thin bourbon notes eclipse anything the base beer offers. Gooey and syrupy without the bold flavours such a mouthfeel would be justified by.
Sugary sweet. Molasses. Brown sugar.
An enjoyable but suprisingly shallow brew that doesn't measure up to the greats in the style. Like so many American brewed Baltic porters, this feels like a Baltic Porter with imperial stout envy.
I do dig its gooey warm feel.
High C+ (3.19) / ABOVE AVERAGE
Mar 21, 2019Barrel sugars and thin bourbon notes eclipse anything the base beer offers. Gooey and syrupy without the bold flavours such a mouthfeel would be justified by.
Sugary sweet. Molasses. Brown sugar.
An enjoyable but suprisingly shallow brew that doesn't measure up to the greats in the style. Like so many American brewed Baltic porters, this feels like a Baltic Porter with imperial stout envy.
I do dig its gooey warm feel.
High C+ (3.19) / ABOVE AVERAGE
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