Great Bustard
Alvarado Street Brewery

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Alvarado Street Brewery
 
California, United States
Style:
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
ABV:
14.6%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
4.59 | pDev: 5.23%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 09, 2024
Added:
Apr 08, 2023
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
Brewed in collaboration with Kyle Harrop of Horus Aged Ales, we brought together a blend of Wee Heavy aged in Cognac & Blanton's bourbon barrels for over a year. Named for one of the heaviest living flying animals, Great Bustard presents a luxuriously layered ale perfect for contemplative sipping. This rich and spirited beer blooms forth with notes of caramel dipped figs, toasted brown bread, and dried apricot woven among almond brittle, tobacco, and vanilla custard with a warm, inviting finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by pants678 from California

4.82/5  rDev +5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Dark brown, translucent, no head foam.

Barrel, liquor, malt.

Lightly coffee, toffee, brown sugar, wood, touch of chalkiness on the finish.

Carbonation is right.
Sep 09, 2024
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Reviewed by lucius10 from California

4.35/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Sweet brown sugar and caramel-toffee maltiness, cinnamon raisin bread, slightly smoky, and a cognac/bourbon barrel nose on this one! Taste follows with some chocolate and caramel covered raisins upfront...and then a prominent boozy barrel finish. As it opens up, a more pronounced bitterness comes out on the backend...not sure if it is from some hidden hoppiness or from the char of the barrel. Drinks very smooth and both barrels show up here.
Apr 29, 2023