7th Anniversary Barrel Aged Vanilla Barleywine
The Brewing Projekt
- From:
- The Brewing Projekt
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 16%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 12.04%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 22, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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BA Vanilla Barleywine - aged in Central Standard Craft Distillery bourbon barrels over a year then conditioned on hand scraped Madagascar vanilla beans before bottling.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bishop from Wisconsin
3.67/5 rDev -15%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -15%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Tasted fresh during their anniversary event was higher-rated than the bottles I saved and this rating reflects bottles.
Pours a dark ruby with minimal head--head that is there dissipates quickly into a cream-colored ring of bubbles that then disappears altogether into what almost looks still. Smells of vanilla, brown sugar, and traces of berry (not an adjunct). Taste is boozy (gastric warming), vanilla, burnt toast, and dark fruit. Carbonation is still very active and elevated. Prickly. Finish is lingering booziness with some sourness. It's a shame this didn't improve but is what it is.
Feb 22, 2025Pours a dark ruby with minimal head--head that is there dissipates quickly into a cream-colored ring of bubbles that then disappears altogether into what almost looks still. Smells of vanilla, brown sugar, and traces of berry (not an adjunct). Taste is boozy (gastric warming), vanilla, burnt toast, and dark fruit. Carbonation is still very active and elevated. Prickly. Finish is lingering booziness with some sourness. It's a shame this didn't improve but is what it is.
Reviewed by stortore from Illinois
4.36/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
500 ml bottle into a snifter. Had 10/15/22.
Pours a garnet amber, semi opaque, with no head and a few specks of cling. Aromas of vanilla, caramel, malt, oak, bourbon, some brown sugar, light char. Flavors of bourbon, vanilla, caramel, malt, raisins, some brown sugar, light alcohol warming. Has a spicy taste. Smooth, a very good medium body, appropriately carbonated.
The vanilla is pretty dominant, but the effective barrels and solid base hold up well to the vanilla onslaught. Overall, this really works for me.
Jun 22, 2023Pours a garnet amber, semi opaque, with no head and a few specks of cling. Aromas of vanilla, caramel, malt, oak, bourbon, some brown sugar, light char. Flavors of bourbon, vanilla, caramel, malt, raisins, some brown sugar, light alcohol warming. Has a spicy taste. Smooth, a very good medium body, appropriately carbonated.
The vanilla is pretty dominant, but the effective barrels and solid base hold up well to the vanilla onslaught. Overall, this really works for me.
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