Barrel Aged Edition - Scotch
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.91 | pDev: 16.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.17/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.17/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
500ml bottle, part of a box-set trio of barrel-aged brews that cost way more than this scribe thinks is reasonable, given expectations, and all.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower (seriously?) of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of acrid peat bog, burnt rubber, chemical-forward iodine, bready and doughy caramel malt, and very little fucking else. The taste is well-roasted peat, melted rubber toys (don't ask), further indistinct chemical factory notes, a plain toffee/caramel malt sweetness, and yeah, nothing further of distinction (not that I would know to sense it).
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not smooth in any way, shape, or form. It finishes off-dry, the underlying malt trying quite bravely to make a go of it against the lingering barrel 'character'.
Overall - Christ Almighty, either Big Rock just dials it in, or totally overdoes it (first time, actually) with the barrel treatment, and yeah, of course now it has to be something from what I assume is Islay or its ilk (no info on the label pertaining to such), which makes for a less than enjoyable experience for this Irish and Speyside-leaning whisk(e)y fan. At any rate, kudos, for finally getting something right, just not my kind of right.
Jan 04, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower (seriously?) of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of acrid peat bog, burnt rubber, chemical-forward iodine, bready and doughy caramel malt, and very little fucking else. The taste is well-roasted peat, melted rubber toys (don't ask), further indistinct chemical factory notes, a plain toffee/caramel malt sweetness, and yeah, nothing further of distinction (not that I would know to sense it).
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not smooth in any way, shape, or form. It finishes off-dry, the underlying malt trying quite bravely to make a go of it against the lingering barrel 'character'.
Overall - Christ Almighty, either Big Rock just dials it in, or totally overdoes it (first time, actually) with the barrel treatment, and yeah, of course now it has to be something from what I assume is Islay or its ilk (no info on the label pertaining to such), which makes for a less than enjoyable experience for this Irish and Speyside-leaning whisk(e)y fan. At any rate, kudos, for finally getting something right, just not my kind of right.
Rated by JPNesker from Canada (ON)
3.33/5 rDev +14.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.33/5 rDev +14.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
1st one we sampled out of the box set.
Really boozy. Overwhelmes the palate. Possibly too complex
Jan 03, 2018Really boozy. Overwhelmes the palate. Possibly too complex
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