Ol' Pudd'nhead - Barrel-Aged
Mark Twain Brewing Co.
- From:
- Mark Twain Brewing Co.
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 1.91%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 21, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 04, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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English-style barleywine ale aged in bourbon barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.26/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
From the Rare Beer Club (I presume I bought from their leftovers, since I'm not a member... but I am impressed by their selections.)
Rarely do I find a brew I'd rather Smell than drink. But drinking Pudd'nhead is not bad either. Somehow analyzing a brew named after one of the great commentaries of 19th Century American culture seems, to me, inappropriate; particularly since that commentary today is still all too true.
What I will do, however, is remark that Twain's serial novel (Pudd'nhead Wilson) set pre-Civil War was "about two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role." Twain certainly satirizes our dilemma then -- and 160 after the fight to end slavery -- certainly would chastise us today for the little progress Americans have made. Assumptions based on race still hold us back as a culture. BA is not the forum to launch into a sermon on this difficult topic, but let us not kid ourselves either... or for much longer.
As for my micro-review of Mark Twain Brewing... I start with a long stretch. I last was in Hannibal Missouri when JFK was President on a middle school graduation trip to learn about American culture and, of course, America's most self-promoted humorist. My chief memory was buying a hat that said "I was born to raise Hell"... which my parents and teachers already had learned too well. Not much else was learned since then.. since as I have not read much of Twain (although he deservedly remains an icon.)
As for starting the micro-review as promised a second time.... I'm impressed that Hannibal, a backwater town Twain lived in for only 14 years as an adolescent, has produced such a sophisticated nano-brewery. But we humans make the most of what we get ... and this brewer is bringing real culture to the town Twain left behind 162 years ago. The brewer also is elevated in that he pays more attention to Twain (and probably American literature) than I have ... and I have one of the best educations that money can buy. In addition to Ol' Pudd'nhead, I like how the brews' names play off of Twain's work... and a few comments on the laconic life of the Mississippi.
Had for dessert on a second night and I offer no change in rating. No BS here. Ol' Pudd'nhead is real.
May 21, 2022Rarely do I find a brew I'd rather Smell than drink. But drinking Pudd'nhead is not bad either. Somehow analyzing a brew named after one of the great commentaries of 19th Century American culture seems, to me, inappropriate; particularly since that commentary today is still all too true.
What I will do, however, is remark that Twain's serial novel (Pudd'nhead Wilson) set pre-Civil War was "about two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role." Twain certainly satirizes our dilemma then -- and 160 after the fight to end slavery -- certainly would chastise us today for the little progress Americans have made. Assumptions based on race still hold us back as a culture. BA is not the forum to launch into a sermon on this difficult topic, but let us not kid ourselves either... or for much longer.
As for my micro-review of Mark Twain Brewing... I start with a long stretch. I last was in Hannibal Missouri when JFK was President on a middle school graduation trip to learn about American culture and, of course, America's most self-promoted humorist. My chief memory was buying a hat that said "I was born to raise Hell"... which my parents and teachers already had learned too well. Not much else was learned since then.. since as I have not read much of Twain (although he deservedly remains an icon.)
As for starting the micro-review as promised a second time.... I'm impressed that Hannibal, a backwater town Twain lived in for only 14 years as an adolescent, has produced such a sophisticated nano-brewery. But we humans make the most of what we get ... and this brewer is bringing real culture to the town Twain left behind 162 years ago. The brewer also is elevated in that he pays more attention to Twain (and probably American literature) than I have ... and I have one of the best educations that money can buy. In addition to Ol' Pudd'nhead, I like how the brews' names play off of Twain's work... and a few comments on the laconic life of the Mississippi.
Had for dessert on a second night and I offer no change in rating. No BS here. Ol' Pudd'nhead is real.
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