Universe From Scratch
Bottle Logic Brewing

Sweet caramel drizzled apple pie, baking spices and all-spice, a hint of cinnamon, and a vanilla-bourbon barrel nose on this one! Taste follows exactly with a caramel, cinnamon, and apple pie, bourbon barrel finish. The mouthfeel leans more medium-bodied at first, but as it warms it becomes fuller and softer...this really helps accentuate the pie-crust like backend that works so well with the apple pie filling vibe. This is delicious!

I drank the universe from scratch and I called it.... good! In fact for a few ounces it is awesome, but the sweetness does start to add up. Taste has hyper sweet crumble, apple, and cinnamon with vanilla and caramel malts, backed by bourbon barrel and barley. Smell is laced with cinnamon, bourbon, vanilla, caramel and barley in that order. Feel is warm and heavy, decently smooth and boozy. Very dark brown opaque pour, light brown ring. Nice late autumn dessert beer

 

Universe from Scratch from Bottle Logic Brewing. Single 16.0 fl oz bottle, picked up 15/11/25, at HEB #45, SAT, TX, $33.62 (including tax)/$ 1.99/fl oz. On room temperature shelf in store. Reviewed 29/11/25, review 3643. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottom of label stamped “PKGD. 08/2025.” Stored at home at 37 degrees F. Served at 55.5 degrees F (Suggested temperature on label is 58 degrees F) in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 58.1 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.25
First pour – Deep Amber (SRM 15), clear.
Body – Ruby Brown (SRM 24), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, ruby.
Head – Average (Maximum two cm, aggressive center pour). Caramel, high density but fizzy, short retention, dropping to a 0.1 cm constantly renewing bubble ring (which eventually disappears), and a thin center island which devolves into an atoll.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 4.5 – Begins with strong caramel and sweet “dark fruit”, along with some maltiness, no hops, no alcohol (14 % ABV according to the label).
Flavor – 4.5 – Begins moderately sweet with caramel and “dark fruit.” Hints of vanilla and bourbon. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Faint gastric warming from the well-hidden alcohol. Not finding any apple or cinnamon.
Palate – 4.25 – Full: Between syrupy and creamy: Soft carbonation.
Style: Follows the BA style description.
Final impression and summation: 4.5 Uncredited art work. Excellent English-style barleywine! And I only had to drive 1500 miles to find it!

 

Appearance: Pours tea brown with a film that fades to a collar; leggy but only a few spots

Smell: Caramel apple tones dominate, with cinnamon and Bourbon accents

Taste: Caramel apple flavors forward, with the cinnamon coming on strong; all the flavors are cloaked with a mild coating of Bourbon that lingers into the finish

Mouthfeel: Full bodied with low carbonation; slight warmth in the gullet

Overall: Deft handling of the Bourbon here allows the apple pie aspect to shine

 

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A- pours dark brown with a one finger foamy off white head that reduces to a ring

S- aroma smells just like flaky apple pie crust, undertone of caramel, toffee, slightly burnt pie crust, brown sugar, spot on

T- malty sweet caramel And toffee give way to apple pie filling mid palate. Notes of cinnamon and allspice, with more buttery flaky crust. The finish gives stated apples, caramel, oak and brown sugar

M- medium body with moderate carbonation, foamy mouthfeel turns creamy into the finish