Gravity Always Wins (Red Wine Barrel)
Ocelot Brewing Company
- From:
- Ocelot Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 11.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 1.62%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 20, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 12, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our Wee Heavy Scotch Ale aged for 16 months in red wine barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
4.38/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.38/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Ok, if you want a wee heavy that has a little influence from the wine barrel, you likely won’t find this as enjoyable as I did. If you want the wine influence more in your face, I think this will work for you.
The look is a ruby-tinged dark brown, though the head behaves as you’d expect for a high ABV aged beer. Feel is actually lighter than expected sitting at a solid medium plus. The tannins seem to dry this out more than I expect from a wee heavy, but I like it.
Nose is a mix of caramelized toasted malt, red wine grape, and barrel tannin. There’s an indication of alcohol beyond the wine notes, but it is light. Honestly, it might be a little too vinous, but it works for me.
Taste brings a bitter-tinged caramel note to the top of my tongue and then the barrel and the wine that was in it rips it away. The relative sweetness of the beer buoys the dry red wine notes in a balance that puts the wine in the middle wrapped by the wee heavy.
Finish and linger sit on the wine side of balance, which drives home my opening postulations. I could see one claiming the barrel is at least a bit out of balance, and the tannic bitterness it brings makes this vaguely similar to an American barleywine. But however one might explain it, I call it damn good.
Jun 12, 2021The look is a ruby-tinged dark brown, though the head behaves as you’d expect for a high ABV aged beer. Feel is actually lighter than expected sitting at a solid medium plus. The tannins seem to dry this out more than I expect from a wee heavy, but I like it.
Nose is a mix of caramelized toasted malt, red wine grape, and barrel tannin. There’s an indication of alcohol beyond the wine notes, but it is light. Honestly, it might be a little too vinous, but it works for me.
Taste brings a bitter-tinged caramel note to the top of my tongue and then the barrel and the wine that was in it rips it away. The relative sweetness of the beer buoys the dry red wine notes in a balance that puts the wine in the middle wrapped by the wee heavy.
Finish and linger sit on the wine side of balance, which drives home my opening postulations. I could see one claiming the barrel is at least a bit out of balance, and the tannic bitterness it brings makes this vaguely similar to an American barleywine. But however one might explain it, I call it damn good.
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