Ragnarock - Red Wine Barrel-Aged
Imperial Oak Brewing
- From:
- Imperial Oak Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.1 | pDev: 0.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 22, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 25, 2017
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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Aged one year in California Cabernet Sauvignon barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by stortore from Illinois
4.14/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.14/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22 ounce bottle into a tulip snifter. Bottled 1/19/17, had 2/25/17. Aged in Cabernet barrels.
Pours a mostly opaque dark brown, with a one inch foamy, quickly dissipating head and some soapy lacing. Smells of wine, malt, chocolate, cocoa, some yeast, grapes, light vanilla- more as it warms, some oak, light maple, some brown sugar. The taste is also more wine forward, then malt, grapes, chocolate, yeast, vanilla, some caramel, light molasses and oak, a bit of licorice. A light sweetness overall. Smooth, an appropriate level of carbonation. Has a decent body, but it's a little thin feeling.
Definitely Cabernet barrel forward, a terrific job of aging. Great aroma and very good flavor. It's a really good base beer, but it's left a little thinner from the barrels. Solid effort with a style you wouldn't think would play nice with wine barrels.
Jul 22, 2017Pours a mostly opaque dark brown, with a one inch foamy, quickly dissipating head and some soapy lacing. Smells of wine, malt, chocolate, cocoa, some yeast, grapes, light vanilla- more as it warms, some oak, light maple, some brown sugar. The taste is also more wine forward, then malt, grapes, chocolate, yeast, vanilla, some caramel, light molasses and oak, a bit of licorice. A light sweetness overall. Smooth, an appropriate level of carbonation. Has a decent body, but it's a little thin feeling.
Definitely Cabernet barrel forward, a terrific job of aging. Great aroma and very good flavor. It's a really good base beer, but it's left a little thinner from the barrels. Solid effort with a style you wouldn't think would play nice with wine barrels.
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