Who Hit John (5 Year Anniversary)
Wren House Brewing Co.
- From:
- Wren House Brewing Co.
- Arizona, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
- ABV:
- 11.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.28 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2021
- Added:
- Feb 21, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A heartfelt throwback to our first anniversary & first ever BA bottle release. We are incredibly proud of the journey that this beer, and us as a brewery, have made over the last 5 years. We wanted to express our gratitude for your continued supports via a back to basics Jack Daniels No. 27 Gold Barrel Aged Imperial Porter. WHO HIT JOHN is our massive Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter, always brewed to achieve the highest strength possible using only 100% malt as our fermentables. This batch is crazy decadent with the distinct roast we have grown to love thanks to the specialty German Chocolate Rye that truly makes this beer something special. For even more complexity, this batch of WHJ took a nice long nap in Jack Daniels Gold (No. 27) barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.28/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.28/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
No bottling date (released in 6/2020, so presumably bottled in that month); consumed on 2/20/21
Pours a dense, motor-oil black body sporting a sparse foam barely breaching the surface, leaving only vague islands of cap and a creamy, pale mocha collar, with minimal lacing holding temporarily to the walls of the glass.
Aroma brings out a brief milk chocolate and rye spice before the immediacy of boozy heat becomes distracting, washing over the bouquet with hints of char appearing in spots, while dark chocolate and dusty, almost ashy roast closes.
Taste opens with velvety milk chocolate as a progressive hit of booze is established; gritty cacao nibs, distant smoked toffee and splintery oak are interspersed across the mid-palate and into the back end, where burnt chocolate pudding and ashy roast finish, and whipped vanilla lingers past the swallow.
Mouthfeel shows a slick, silky medium-full body, with low-lying carbonation quickly replaced by a soft grit and sharpening boozy character eventually easing past the mid-palate to a lingering, spicy tingle; semi-creamy and lightly sticky textures on the back end mesh for a last-minute dryness and charry bitterness into the swallow.
A sturdy roast and underlying flow of silky depth is completely overrun with unhinged booziness, an ethanol character allowing the bare-minimum barrel presence to come through while subduing aspects of the base beer; solidly constructed and with great potential in the flavor profile, the lasting impressions for this will unfortunately skew toward a rawer, messier imperial porter.
Feb 21, 2021Pours a dense, motor-oil black body sporting a sparse foam barely breaching the surface, leaving only vague islands of cap and a creamy, pale mocha collar, with minimal lacing holding temporarily to the walls of the glass.
Aroma brings out a brief milk chocolate and rye spice before the immediacy of boozy heat becomes distracting, washing over the bouquet with hints of char appearing in spots, while dark chocolate and dusty, almost ashy roast closes.
Taste opens with velvety milk chocolate as a progressive hit of booze is established; gritty cacao nibs, distant smoked toffee and splintery oak are interspersed across the mid-palate and into the back end, where burnt chocolate pudding and ashy roast finish, and whipped vanilla lingers past the swallow.
Mouthfeel shows a slick, silky medium-full body, with low-lying carbonation quickly replaced by a soft grit and sharpening boozy character eventually easing past the mid-palate to a lingering, spicy tingle; semi-creamy and lightly sticky textures on the back end mesh for a last-minute dryness and charry bitterness into the swallow.
A sturdy roast and underlying flow of silky depth is completely overrun with unhinged booziness, an ethanol character allowing the bare-minimum barrel presence to come through while subduing aspects of the base beer; solidly constructed and with great potential in the flavor profile, the lasting impressions for this will unfortunately skew toward a rawer, messier imperial porter.
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