GRV/IN BIN
Grain Bin Brewing Company
- From:
- Grain Bin Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.1 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 11, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 11, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Want a purely speculative and baseless claim?
This is (?) the strongest commercial beer brewed in Alberta.
At 14% our anniversary (celebrating year 5 and 6 combined!) barleywine is a caramel delight that is malty, sweet, and has just enough alcohol to balance the sweetness with the citrus and pine hop aroma. Truly a unique offering that is worth sharing now or cellaring for a special event years in the future.
We are often asked, what makes a strong beer more alcoholic? Well, simple answer is yeast eats sugar and turns it into alcohol. However, alcohol is poison (to both us and other living things, such as yeast) and so it is quite difficult to get yeast to “ferment”, or metabolize the sugar into alcohol, at such a high level without essentially killing itself. There are a few other ways to increase alcohol, such as “fortification “ (adding a high alcohol spirit to the beer to increase alcohol content) as well as ice distillation (freezing the beer, skimming off the ice, and therefore increasing the concentration of alcohol remaining in the beer). While these are both really fun options, GrV/In Bin is neither, with its higher alcoholic content achieved by fermentation alone!
Make sure you grab one of these incredibly limited bottles before they are gone!
This is (?) the strongest commercial beer brewed in Alberta.
At 14% our anniversary (celebrating year 5 and 6 combined!) barleywine is a caramel delight that is malty, sweet, and has just enough alcohol to balance the sweetness with the citrus and pine hop aroma. Truly a unique offering that is worth sharing now or cellaring for a special event years in the future.
We are often asked, what makes a strong beer more alcoholic? Well, simple answer is yeast eats sugar and turns it into alcohol. However, alcohol is poison (to both us and other living things, such as yeast) and so it is quite difficult to get yeast to “ferment”, or metabolize the sugar into alcohol, at such a high level without essentially killing itself. There are a few other ways to increase alcohol, such as “fortification “ (adding a high alcohol spirit to the beer to increase alcohol content) as well as ice distillation (freezing the beer, skimming off the ice, and therefore increasing the concentration of alcohol remaining in the beer). While these are both really fun options, GrV/In Bin is neither, with its higher alcoholic content achieved by fermentation alone!
Make sure you grab one of these incredibly limited bottles before they are gone!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.1/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a deep copper red with two fingers of bubbly white head that quickly dissipates.
Smell - earthy, leafy, hint of piney hops, candied sugar, dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig). caramel. bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, piney and citrus hops upfront. The candied sugar, dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig), and caramel come through next. The bready malts, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky from the hops and sweet from the malts with a tiny bit of alcohol warmth.
Overall - A interesting and highly dangerously drinkable barleywine that tends in the middle of an English and a American barleywine. This is very unique as one bottle is sufficient and is good to drink now. I haven't had many of their offering but I was curious to try it when I saw it at Collective here in Cowtown. A malty, sweet, and somewhat bitter barleywine that is sure to please some of those adventurous beer enthusiastics here in Alberta.
Sep 11, 2022Smell - earthy, leafy, hint of piney hops, candied sugar, dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig). caramel. bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, piney and citrus hops upfront. The candied sugar, dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig), and caramel come through next. The bready malts, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky from the hops and sweet from the malts with a tiny bit of alcohol warmth.
Overall - A interesting and highly dangerously drinkable barleywine that tends in the middle of an English and a American barleywine. This is very unique as one bottle is sufficient and is good to drink now. I haven't had many of their offering but I was curious to try it when I saw it at Collective here in Cowtown. A malty, sweet, and somewhat bitter barleywine that is sure to please some of those adventurous beer enthusiastics here in Alberta.
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