Barrel Aged Bourbon Coffee Porter
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 10, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2018
- Wants:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - aged in Woodinville 'Bourbon' barrels for six months and blended with coffee from a place called Pallet Coffee. Hmmmmm, maybe that's why they keep misusing the word pallet (intending palate) on their labels.
This beer pours a clear, very dark brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered frilly lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of cold artisanal coffee, subtle vanilla and boozy rye barrel notes, bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, anise spice, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty cafe-au-lait, a still hard to discern American whiskey woodiness, grainy and crackery caramel malt, faint char, muddled black stone fruit, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as the roast and evolving alcohol edge don't seem to play well with others here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, coffee, and ephemeral whiskey essences presiding.
Overall - well, it's clear that the coffee addition made a whole lot bigger impact on the final product than the half year spent in casks did. Not a bad brew, but definitely one more suited to that rich palette of java junkies out there. Clunky, yes, but it generally works, just like this beer.
Jan 10, 2018This beer pours a clear, very dark brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered frilly lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of cold artisanal coffee, subtle vanilla and boozy rye barrel notes, bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, anise spice, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty cafe-au-lait, a still hard to discern American whiskey woodiness, grainy and crackery caramel malt, faint char, muddled black stone fruit, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as the roast and evolving alcohol edge don't seem to play well with others here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, coffee, and ephemeral whiskey essences presiding.
Overall - well, it's clear that the coffee addition made a whole lot bigger impact on the final product than the half year spent in casks did. Not a bad brew, but definitely one more suited to that rich palette of java junkies out there. Clunky, yes, but it generally works, just like this beer.
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