Barrel Aged Series - Bourbon
Big Rock Brewery

Barrel Aged Series - BourbonBarrel Aged Series - Bourbon
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From:
Big Rock Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Strong Ale
ABV:
11%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.6 | pDev: 6.11%
Reviews:
3
Ratings:
8
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 02, 2015
Added:
Dec 01, 2014
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Noxious26:
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Rated by Noxious26 from Canada (SK)

3.49/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Jan 18, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.25 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Aug 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.84 by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)

Apr 10, 2015
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Rated by Corson from Canada (AB)

3.84/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Best of the three. Pretty heavy bourbon taste.
Feb 12, 2015
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)

3.5/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a dark copper with a finger of bubbly off-white head.

Smell - bready caramel malts, oak, bourbon, vanilla, hint of spicy rye, earthy hops, and booze.

Taste - bready sweet caramel malts followed by the oak, bourbon, vanilla, slight earthy hops, and slight hint of spicy rye.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light carbonation. A hint of the barrel comes through in the finish.

Overall - For the third in this series, the use of the bourbon barrel was good in the aromas. However, I found that the oak flavours came and went in the taste. Some improvements would make the flavours in the barrel shine through more and make it more true to the style.
Dec 29, 2014
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Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)

3.51/5  rDev -2.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml tear drop bottle poured into tulip 25/12/14 HO HO HO

A clear brownish amber, a few bubbles here and there, not much for head or lace, looks pretty still

S saw dust hits me first of all things, bourbon, vanilla, caramel, graham cracker, booze, not bad but lots of room for improvement

T JD, vanilla, bread, booze, wood, but I can't shake the saw dust, lots of barrel but it doesn't make up for it, a little spice I can't place

M light for 11%, some on the way down, grit on the palate, JD on the finish

O OK beer but some minor flaws here and there, I'm getting lots of JD all over the place and heaps of vanilla

I'm so curious to what they used as a base beer, not mind blowing but drinkable and about what you'd expect from a big rock barrel aged program
Dec 25, 2014
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.48/5  rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml teardrop-shaped bottle, part 3 of the three-fer gift pack of Big Rock barrel-aged ales.

This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with two pudgy fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light beige head, which leaves a bit of rising land-ho lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of sweet, acrid booze-tinged Bourbon barrel wood - caramel, vanilla, and spicy rye, for the most part - sugary bready malt, a hint of ginger and nutmeg, a mild menthol warmth, and a faint earthy hop bitterness. The taste is more plain, generic bready caramel malt, duly smacked over the head by the same gritty Bourbon woodiness from the nose - edgy alcohol, dry vanilla, charred caramel, and spicy rye grain - all the while a growing mustiness adds to the manufactured 'old' scheme being perpetuated here.

The bubbles are fairly understated, barely a wispy frothiness manages to arise, the body a tempered medium weight, and sort of smooth, the alcohol and woody graininess making a few contrarian inroads. It finishes off-dry, the whiskey barrel essence starting to slowly meld into the bland base ale.

Once again, the barrel aging effects are front and center, and almost removed from the wan underlying ale, whose identity I am just less than dying to know now. Meh, not a bad brew for its strength, but disjointed-seeming, and lacking the robust flavour one might be expecting from such a venture.
Dec 13, 2014
 
Rated: 3.92 by schnarr84 from Canada (AB)

Dec 01, 2014
Barrel Aged Series - Bourbon from Big Rock Brewery
Beer rating: 3.6 out of 5 with 8 ratings