Critter Cuvée
Forager Brewing Company
- From:
- Forager Brewing Company
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 14.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.42 | pDev: 4.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 26, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 29, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This is a blend of multiple different beers, barrel sizes and spirit types. We blended oat wine, spelt wine, rye wine, maple barleywine and imperial stout. Barrel types were a brandy hogshead, a calvados barrel, a bourbon barrel, a rye whiskey barrel and a few 15 gallon whiskey barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by WOLFGANG from South Carolina
4.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Draught @ ESBC
Feb 26, 2023
Rated by 4DAloveofSTOUT from Illinois
4.4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Really nice blend of barrels. FIrst american strong ale from forager. complex barrel notes. really smooth.
Nov 21, 2021
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
4.82/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.82/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Cuvee! Critters! And love me a 750ML Forager stout bottle. So classy. Probably adds $8 to the cost of the brew. Split with my wife.
Pour is dark brown with gilt red along the edges. Nose is big: hella caramel, malty sweetness, bourbon, rye. A lot to process. Ain’t going to get easier, I feel.
Critter Cuvee is intense. Alcohol lunges from the glass with a foreboding of future headaches followed by a stampede of sometimes conflicting flavors. If pressed I’d guess this was a barrel aged rye wine. Big rye spiciness stamped all over the initial burst with plenty of maple, caramel. Then the barrels arrive: more rye, bourbon, backed by a robust mouthfeel provided by what I can only assume to be a small farm’s worth of malts. Perhaps a touch of brandy, or that might be me licking the label. Big interest in drinking more of this.
It’s hard to produce a beer these days that you sip & say “Geez, I haven’t tasted anything like that before!” This is one of them. Thoroughly top shelf.
Oct 13, 2021Pour is dark brown with gilt red along the edges. Nose is big: hella caramel, malty sweetness, bourbon, rye. A lot to process. Ain’t going to get easier, I feel.
Critter Cuvee is intense. Alcohol lunges from the glass with a foreboding of future headaches followed by a stampede of sometimes conflicting flavors. If pressed I’d guess this was a barrel aged rye wine. Big rye spiciness stamped all over the initial burst with plenty of maple, caramel. Then the barrels arrive: more rye, bourbon, backed by a robust mouthfeel provided by what I can only assume to be a small farm’s worth of malts. Perhaps a touch of brandy, or that might be me licking the label. Big interest in drinking more of this.
It’s hard to produce a beer these days that you sip & say “Geez, I haven’t tasted anything like that before!” This is one of them. Thoroughly top shelf.
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
On tap. Dark brown ish color.
Has a lot going on. Molasses, toffee, bourbon, vanilla, oak, fudge, cake. Lighter than the stouts, but still full bodied. A bit rich. Dark dried fruits. Caramel.
Hides the abv well.
Sep 24, 2021Has a lot going on. Molasses, toffee, bourbon, vanilla, oak, fudge, cake. Lighter than the stouts, but still full bodied. A bit rich. Dark dried fruits. Caramel.
Hides the abv well.
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