Nebula - Extended BA (Knob Creek)
Barreled Souls Brewing Company
- From:
- Barreled Souls Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 14.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.34 | pDev: 1.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2024
- Added:
- Sep 28, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our new experimental Barleywine, aged for 17 months and 26 days in Knob Creek Bourbon barrels
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.27/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This one pours a dark golden brown, very dark for a barleywine, with a small head, and basically no lacing.
This smells like barleywine candy, like the other versions of Nebula that I’ve had. There’s candied chocolate covered raisin, peanut brittle, maple, caramel, molasses, bourbon, and oak on the nose.
There’s a lot going on with this one, but a smaller dose is definitely in order for this one, as it’s pretty heavy and it’s pretty sweet. If I’m quibbling, I’d want a more dynamic barrel character here – dynamic meaning something that would tame the sweetness a bit. The barrel character just emphasizes the candied aspects of the base, adding vanilla, honey, and more caramel notes to the base, as far as my palate is telling me.
This is pretty thick, without fully going over to being syrupy, with no real booziness. It’s definitely a slow sipper.
I attempted to take this bottle down on my own, which wasn’t super advisable, but what I was able to get through was a supremely decadent barrel aged barleywine.
Oct 01, 2024This smells like barleywine candy, like the other versions of Nebula that I’ve had. There’s candied chocolate covered raisin, peanut brittle, maple, caramel, molasses, bourbon, and oak on the nose.
There’s a lot going on with this one, but a smaller dose is definitely in order for this one, as it’s pretty heavy and it’s pretty sweet. If I’m quibbling, I’d want a more dynamic barrel character here – dynamic meaning something that would tame the sweetness a bit. The barrel character just emphasizes the candied aspects of the base, adding vanilla, honey, and more caramel notes to the base, as far as my palate is telling me.
This is pretty thick, without fully going over to being syrupy, with no real booziness. It’s definitely a slow sipper.
I attempted to take this bottle down on my own, which wasn’t super advisable, but what I was able to get through was a supremely decadent barrel aged barleywine.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
4.4/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
I am sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle poured into my snifter. Bottled on date is 6/15/2023. Picked up at the brewery last November.
the beer pours a clear mahogany color and very little light passes through my glass, there is some deep garnet red on the edges when I hold to the light. A fizzy, dense khaki colored head of about 0.5 cm foams up and fades to a sturdy edge layer quickly after the pour. one wispy island spins from bubbles rising to the surface.
Aroma is malt and bourbon driven with some brown sugar, bourbon, dark raisin notes and maybe a little fruity plum too. No hop character and not boozy or fusol, which is impressive for a 14.5% beer.
First sip reveals a very smooth slightly syrupy textured beer. Very low and gentle carbonation and the beer drinks pretty easy for one of bigger "umph". A little warmth on the finish as it sits in my belly.
Flavor is definitely on the sweeter side with some toffee and brown sugar mixing with some sweet bourbon, not really any char or wood from the barrel in my opinion. I dont get the fruity flavors really that I got on the nose as the brown malt sweetness carries the day.
Pretty solid sipper and Im glad to have tried this one. Would gladly drink another.... IN fact, I believe I have a 2nd bottle downstairs! :)
Sep 28, 2024the beer pours a clear mahogany color and very little light passes through my glass, there is some deep garnet red on the edges when I hold to the light. A fizzy, dense khaki colored head of about 0.5 cm foams up and fades to a sturdy edge layer quickly after the pour. one wispy island spins from bubbles rising to the surface.
Aroma is malt and bourbon driven with some brown sugar, bourbon, dark raisin notes and maybe a little fruity plum too. No hop character and not boozy or fusol, which is impressive for a 14.5% beer.
First sip reveals a very smooth slightly syrupy textured beer. Very low and gentle carbonation and the beer drinks pretty easy for one of bigger "umph". A little warmth on the finish as it sits in my belly.
Flavor is definitely on the sweeter side with some toffee and brown sugar mixing with some sweet bourbon, not really any char or wood from the barrel in my opinion. I dont get the fruity flavors really that I got on the nose as the brown malt sweetness carries the day.
Pretty solid sipper and Im glad to have tried this one. Would gladly drink another.... IN fact, I believe I have a 2nd bottle downstairs! :)
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