Hypothesis Series - Chocolate Covered Cherry
Merrimack Ales

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From:
Merrimack Ales
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
Altbier
ABV:
9%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
4.51 | pDev: 10.86%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Sep 28, 2018
Added:
Apr 21, 2018
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 5 by Porterandstouts143 from Massachusetts

Sep 28, 2018
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Reviewed by DBosco from Massachusetts

4.02/5  rDev -10.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Label says "Double Altbier", IBU 43, dated Feb '17, "Aged in bourbon barrels with tart cherries and Dominican cocoa". 22oz bottle. Pours with a pillowy puffy head that slowly settles. Deep copper honey color, dark but not cloudy. Smell is cherry and oak, with a trace of bourbon. Taste is some tart cherries, a dash of cocoa, a bit of bourbon barrel. Mouthfeel is well balanced, substantial body with moderate carbonation. Overall, this is a good beer but there is a bit of the taste that I don't like as much. I suspect it is the combination of the cocoa and the barrel. Might be more to my taste if they dropped the cocoa and had a little more prominent vanilla bourbon barrel.
Apr 21, 2018