Commitment Phobe
Mockery Brewing Co.
- From:
- Mockery Brewing Co.
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Quadrupel (Quad)
- ABV:
- 11.25%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 28, 2016
- Added:
- Jan 08, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Commitment Phobe is our Whiskey and Wine Barrel Aged Quad. The wine and whiskey barrel character compliments the sweet California date background.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by spoony from Colorado
3.92/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
From a 650 ml bottle (best by December 1, 2017) to a chalice. Reviewed from notes dated March 4, 2016.
A-The beer is amber in color with decent clarity and some garnet highlights. There is pretty much zero head; just a sheen and a film of grayish-tan foam that quickly fades to collar.
S-The aroma displays a lot of the barrels. I sniff vanilla, a boozy whiskey-like alcohol heat, tobacco, toasted oak, cedar, and caramel. You can really pick which flavors come from the wine barrels and which come from the whiskey, which is cool. The beer provides a nice, but very sweet, mixture of dates, plums, grapes, and cherry on which the barrels work. Interesting.
T-The taste tracks the smell with the whiskey barrel flavors (vanilla, caramel) dominating at first. Then the beer takes over and I get some tobacco, prune, date, and just a hint of tartness on the finish that suggest cherries and grape. Not much of the wine barrel makes it through, but you get the feeling it is lurking in the background.
M-The body is a little thin and watery for a quad. Carbonation is surprisingly and unfortunately crisp.
O-This is not a very attractive beer and the mouth feel is a touch off, but it provides a lot of flavors. I can see why Mockery called it Commitment Phobe, because there is a ton happening here. It may be a bit of mess, but I enjoyed it.
Mar 28, 2016A-The beer is amber in color with decent clarity and some garnet highlights. There is pretty much zero head; just a sheen and a film of grayish-tan foam that quickly fades to collar.
S-The aroma displays a lot of the barrels. I sniff vanilla, a boozy whiskey-like alcohol heat, tobacco, toasted oak, cedar, and caramel. You can really pick which flavors come from the wine barrels and which come from the whiskey, which is cool. The beer provides a nice, but very sweet, mixture of dates, plums, grapes, and cherry on which the barrels work. Interesting.
T-The taste tracks the smell with the whiskey barrel flavors (vanilla, caramel) dominating at first. Then the beer takes over and I get some tobacco, prune, date, and just a hint of tartness on the finish that suggest cherries and grape. Not much of the wine barrel makes it through, but you get the feeling it is lurking in the background.
M-The body is a little thin and watery for a quad. Carbonation is surprisingly and unfortunately crisp.
O-This is not a very attractive beer and the mouth feel is a touch off, but it provides a lot of flavors. I can see why Mockery called it Commitment Phobe, because there is a ton happening here. It may be a bit of mess, but I enjoyed it.
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