Barrel Aged Edition - Rye
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 21.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.77/5 rDev -19%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
2.77/5 rDev -19%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
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 sediment-strewn, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly disperses.
It smells weakly of vanilla-forward oak staves, kind of sugary lemon/lime citrus, a generic sour and yet spicy graininess, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is thin and grainy caramel malt, hard to really pin down rye barrel essences (watery vanilla extract, mostly), well-faded bland citrus pith, and then it just sorta skids to a halt - and, nothingness.
The carbonation is pretty tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, nothing really existing here that might actually cause a problem at this juncture. It finishes off-dry, the wan malt and barely lingering fruitiness presiding.
Overall - yeah, this is one big fat fail, as if the powers that be (either before or after packaging, I dunno) said: 'hey, let's switch out the purported rye barrel character with, um, what would be funny? Oh, oh, oh! Floaties! Hahaha, I kill me. If I were only so lucky. [Update: I contacted the brewery, and they informed me that this is how the beer is supposed to be - I'm now tempted to lower my score even further]
Jan 05, 2018This beer pours a sediment-strewn, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly disperses.
It smells weakly of vanilla-forward oak staves, kind of sugary lemon/lime citrus, a generic sour and yet spicy graininess, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is thin and grainy caramel malt, hard to really pin down rye barrel essences (watery vanilla extract, mostly), well-faded bland citrus pith, and then it just sorta skids to a halt - and, nothingness.
The carbonation is pretty tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, nothing really existing here that might actually cause a problem at this juncture. It finishes off-dry, the wan malt and barely lingering fruitiness presiding.
Overall - yeah, this is one big fat fail, as if the powers that be (either before or after packaging, I dunno) said: 'hey, let's switch out the purported rye barrel character with, um, what would be funny? Oh, oh, oh! Floaties! Hahaha, I kill me. If I were only so lucky. [Update: I contacted the brewery, and they informed me that this is how the beer is supposed to be - I'm now tempted to lower my score even further]
Reviewed by JPNesker from Canada (ON)
4.46/5 rDev +30.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.46/5 rDev +30.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2nd one to our lips from the 3 bottle boxed set received as a Christmas present.
Really nice and smooth. Looks terrific in the glass. Pretty high ABV but almost no burn. Highly quaffable!
Jan 03, 2018Really nice and smooth. Looks terrific in the glass. Pretty high ABV but almost no burn. Highly quaffable!
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