Wood Experimental Trial 1: Quercus Alba
New Image Brewing Company

 

 

Dark brown body with a finger of tan foam. Boozy nose, has great wheat, caramel, toffee, and wood. Taste start with the wood, wheat, and booze, then has a huge cool infusion of caramel, toasted toffee, and a liqueur like cognac, before finishing with some much booze. Get a hint of licorice in there too as it warms. It is a big beer in the feel: boozy, wheaty, chewy, thick, has wood tannins everywhere, the kind of beer that puts hair on your chest. If you like wheatwines like I do, this is well worth your time. The wife loved it

Canned 10/7/19; drank 11/7/19 @ the Yarchives.

Cloudy brown/purple appearance.

A violent pour yielded a small khaki head; decent lace.

Fresh wood, strawberry & mild leather notes in the nose.

Thick, sticky mouthfeel.

Fresh wood, caramel, strawberry & dry leather flavors; booze heat emerged as this warmed.

Sweet & robust; this was a fine, challenging brew. I'd have another!

Reddish-brown body with a thin yet lasting head; creamy with some rings of lacing inside the glass. Mild fragrance of white oak and some sweet, toasted malt grains; caramel and toffee. Tremendously huge sweet and fruity flavor with a near knockout punch of alcohol; dark pitted fruits, dried, like prunes, dates and figs; candi sugar; boozy. Incredibly heavy body; thick, oily, and chewy; viscous; immense residual sugar body; very warm (but not hot) alcohol presence.

What an eye popper of a beer! Its immense character oozes thick, rich flavors and alcohol. This beer most definitely is a sipper. It comes across like a liqueur or brandy more than anything else. Great treat for those who like the bold beers...