Barrel Aged Series - Sherry
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 8.25%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 6.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 25, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 01, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500ml teardrop bottle poured into tulip 22/12/14
A clear amber liquid, fast bubbles throughout feeding a short lived finger of foam that leaves a pair of pencil thin rings
S caramel, plums, candied cherries, floral, perfume notes, a hint of sweet red wine and wood but I doubt I'd ever guess this was aged in sherry casks
T fairly sweet but not a whole lot of sherry, caramel, fruit that's hard to place, not much wood at all, a little booze, kinda tastes like a sweeter Trad, its OK but far from mind blowing
M medium bodied, a little foamy, sticky on the lips but tannins in the mouth, finish is faintly woody
O I don't mind it but its pretty basic and nothing to write home about, I suppose this is exactly what I was expecting from Big Rock trying to barrel age beer
Its not bad but its far from memorable, not a whole lot going on really, I didn't really have high hopes and this one didn't disappoint
Dec 23, 2014A clear amber liquid, fast bubbles throughout feeding a short lived finger of foam that leaves a pair of pencil thin rings
S caramel, plums, candied cherries, floral, perfume notes, a hint of sweet red wine and wood but I doubt I'd ever guess this was aged in sherry casks
T fairly sweet but not a whole lot of sherry, caramel, fruit that's hard to place, not much wood at all, a little booze, kinda tastes like a sweeter Trad, its OK but far from mind blowing
M medium bodied, a little foamy, sticky on the lips but tannins in the mouth, finish is faintly woody
O I don't mind it but its pretty basic and nothing to write home about, I suppose this is exactly what I was expecting from Big Rock trying to barrel age beer
Its not bad but its far from memorable, not a whole lot going on really, I didn't really have high hopes and this one didn't disappoint
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a copper with two fingers of bubbly tan head.
Smell - red wine, dark fruits (raisin, plum), bready caramel malts, slight toffee, earthy hops.
Taste - Initially starts with the red wine then goes into the dark fruits (raisin, plum), slight bready caramel malts, slight toffee, and hint of earthy hops. However, all the flavours get lost in translation.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with a lingering sweetness and slight vinious notes.
Overall - A barrel-aged brew that had a good aroma. I found that the ingredients could of been more pronounced and working in unison together. Good on Big Rock for taking a stab at this style. Some minor tweaks would make this more true to the style.
Dec 20, 2014Smell - red wine, dark fruits (raisin, plum), bready caramel malts, slight toffee, earthy hops.
Taste - Initially starts with the red wine then goes into the dark fruits (raisin, plum), slight bready caramel malts, slight toffee, and hint of earthy hops. However, all the flavours get lost in translation.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with a lingering sweetness and slight vinious notes.
Overall - A barrel-aged brew that had a good aroma. I found that the ingredients could of been more pronounced and working in unison together. Good on Big Rock for taking a stab at this style. Some minor tweaks would make this more true to the style.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml teardrop-shaped bottle, part of the cardboard packaged new 3-fer of variously barrel-aged beer from Big Rock. The label displays, via its apparent attempt at esoteric beer-making education, an adze, one of my favourite self-indulgent instances of crosswordese.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium rusty brick amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and weakly bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of sudsy sea spout lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel malt, toffee pudding, a soft red-wine fruitiness (more Manischewitz than coastal Portuguese firewater), further indistinct dark fruit, a faint neutered barrel woodiness, and equally benign earthy, weedy, and well-perfumed hops. The taste is bready, grainy caramel malt, thinning toffee, slightly soused black orchard fruit - one almost entirely removed from the purported vinous essences suggested by the label - a touch of clammy yeast, and the same weak weedy, floral, and faintly alcohol-informed hops from the nose.
The carbonation is fairly understated, just a mild, almost suppressed frothiness presiding, the body a so-so medium weight, and more or less smooth, the booze and yeast only having so much say. It finishes on the moderated sweet side, the caramel malt taking it from all sides from the yeast, acrid fruit, low-key woody notes, and pushed-down hops.
Yeah, baby steps, as I have so often urged this brewery to consider, seem to have taken hold in this offering. This is no overwrought, big-ass barrel-aged behemoth, but rather a subtle (as plain as you can imagine, though) attempt at applying wine-infused wood to a still unspecified base ale (so, Trad). Easier to drink than one might expect a 16.5-proof ale to play out, but there it is, fully sans the whoomp.
Dec 10, 2014This beer pours a clear, bright medium rusty brick amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and weakly bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of sudsy sea spout lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel malt, toffee pudding, a soft red-wine fruitiness (more Manischewitz than coastal Portuguese firewater), further indistinct dark fruit, a faint neutered barrel woodiness, and equally benign earthy, weedy, and well-perfumed hops. The taste is bready, grainy caramel malt, thinning toffee, slightly soused black orchard fruit - one almost entirely removed from the purported vinous essences suggested by the label - a touch of clammy yeast, and the same weak weedy, floral, and faintly alcohol-informed hops from the nose.
The carbonation is fairly understated, just a mild, almost suppressed frothiness presiding, the body a so-so medium weight, and more or less smooth, the booze and yeast only having so much say. It finishes on the moderated sweet side, the caramel malt taking it from all sides from the yeast, acrid fruit, low-key woody notes, and pushed-down hops.
Yeah, baby steps, as I have so often urged this brewery to consider, seem to have taken hold in this offering. This is no overwrought, big-ass barrel-aged behemoth, but rather a subtle (as plain as you can imagine, though) attempt at applying wine-infused wood to a still unspecified base ale (so, Trad). Easier to drink than one might expect a 16.5-proof ale to play out, but there it is, fully sans the whoomp.
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