Arizona Beehive
Wren House Brewing Co.
- From:
- Wren House Brewing Co.
- Arizona, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 8.79%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 25, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 10, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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'Arizona Beehive is a blend of our rum and brandy barrel aged braggot brewed in collaboration with Sahtipaja and an imperial stout aged in Superstition Mead barrels. This wonderful new addition to the cactus catalog, has notes of carmelized honey, chocolate, honeycomb, fresh almond toffee and rich Tahitian vanilla.'
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.33/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Braggot on the can, American Strong Ale at this Next Glass owned database. Yeah bouy.
Pours dark, bordering black, but lighter leaning into dark brown just as much. Doesn't hold much of a head. Just a thin amount of bubbles on the edge of (seventeen) the glass. Has a boozy aroma, I'm not sure I like the rum meats mead angle, smells like its definitely double digit alcohol, its all over this. But wait there's more: vanilla in the nose.
The taste continues to be an amalgamation of flavors that doesn't jive with me. Sometimes the individual sum of the parts reveals why: its rum, but then somehow an even sweeter aspect with all the cactus, mead and vanilla influence. Barrel aged pastry braggot? I mean, I guess this is what it is kind of. There's all these ingredients and different barrels and it just doesn't pan out into a product I'm down with. Yes there is a lot going on, cherry bark, mead, wood, roasted malt, vanilla, rum, but man, its like when the NWO had like 24 members, there's sometimes too much going on.
Mar 25, 2025Pours dark, bordering black, but lighter leaning into dark brown just as much. Doesn't hold much of a head. Just a thin amount of bubbles on the edge of (seventeen) the glass. Has a boozy aroma, I'm not sure I like the rum meats mead angle, smells like its definitely double digit alcohol, its all over this. But wait there's more: vanilla in the nose.
The taste continues to be an amalgamation of flavors that doesn't jive with me. Sometimes the individual sum of the parts reveals why: its rum, but then somehow an even sweeter aspect with all the cactus, mead and vanilla influence. Barrel aged pastry braggot? I mean, I guess this is what it is kind of. There's all these ingredients and different barrels and it just doesn't pan out into a product I'm down with. Yes there is a lot going on, cherry bark, mead, wood, roasted malt, vanilla, rum, but man, its like when the NWO had like 24 members, there's sometimes too much going on.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.96/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.96/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Canned on 12/30/19
Pours a brilliant, clean black body with deep cola brown edges and topped with a creamy, uniform half-finger of light khaki foam; solid head retention leaves paper-thin islands of cap, a semi-creamy collar, and a limited display of thin, webby lacing around the glass. 4.5
Aroma opens with a hearty combination of raisin and toasted oak, steadily embracing layers of dark fruits and accented with hints of apple and pear; an increasing toffee presence evolves over time, with wisps of tobacco and milk chocolate hovering in the background and a slight nutty quality to round out the bouquet.
Taste brings out toasted oak, fig, raisin, dark fruits, and toffee upfront as caramelized honey shows a developing sweetness over the mid-palate; vague vanilla cream presents in the backdrop before a warm honey and fresh toast lingering past the swallow.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body trending on the thinner side though keeping taut and slick; a subdued carbonation fluffs up delicately into the mid-palate, where an additional taut, oily grit develops on the back end for a steady, moderately warming finish with a mild alcohol bite on the palate.
Though a unique combination of barrels and base brews, the limited cohesion of individual elements sees a multitude of flavors succeeding largely on their own and not as a whole; expectedly sweet and mildly boozy, the profile comes together enough to leave a pleasing and overall solid strong ale.
Sep 10, 2020Pours a brilliant, clean black body with deep cola brown edges and topped with a creamy, uniform half-finger of light khaki foam; solid head retention leaves paper-thin islands of cap, a semi-creamy collar, and a limited display of thin, webby lacing around the glass. 4.5
Aroma opens with a hearty combination of raisin and toasted oak, steadily embracing layers of dark fruits and accented with hints of apple and pear; an increasing toffee presence evolves over time, with wisps of tobacco and milk chocolate hovering in the background and a slight nutty quality to round out the bouquet.
Taste brings out toasted oak, fig, raisin, dark fruits, and toffee upfront as caramelized honey shows a developing sweetness over the mid-palate; vague vanilla cream presents in the backdrop before a warm honey and fresh toast lingering past the swallow.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body trending on the thinner side though keeping taut and slick; a subdued carbonation fluffs up delicately into the mid-palate, where an additional taut, oily grit develops on the back end for a steady, moderately warming finish with a mild alcohol bite on the palate.
Though a unique combination of barrels and base brews, the limited cohesion of individual elements sees a multitude of flavors succeeding largely on their own and not as a whole; expectedly sweet and mildly boozy, the profile comes together enough to leave a pleasing and overall solid strong ale.
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