Whisky Barrel-Aged Clotworthy Dobbin
Whitewater Brewing Co
- From:
- Whitewater Brewing Co
- Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Irish Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.42 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2010
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
On cask at the Belfast Beer Festival; aged 18 months in whisky barrel.
Pours chestnut brown with an off white film head. Honeyed whiskey barrel nose with a bit of caramel. Toffee and vanilla (from the barrel, presumably) roasted pear, autumn leaf and red apple in the malts, slightest touch of molasses, chocolate in there, too. Some leaf, kola, tea and spice hops. Peaty dryness but generally malt forward. Medium to full, chewy and smooth.
Incredibly complex, nectar-like; truly special. Helps that they started with a great red. Heard a few better palates say too much barrel, that the whisky notes took over - I don't have the experience with barrels to say, but certainly nothing was ruined.
The beer of the festival.
Would love to see this become regular.
Dec 03, 2010Pours chestnut brown with an off white film head. Honeyed whiskey barrel nose with a bit of caramel. Toffee and vanilla (from the barrel, presumably) roasted pear, autumn leaf and red apple in the malts, slightest touch of molasses, chocolate in there, too. Some leaf, kola, tea and spice hops. Peaty dryness but generally malt forward. Medium to full, chewy and smooth.
Incredibly complex, nectar-like; truly special. Helps that they started with a great red. Heard a few better palates say too much barrel, that the whisky notes took over - I don't have the experience with barrels to say, but certainly nothing was ruined.
The beer of the festival.
Would love to see this become regular.
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