Oktoberfest (Bourbon Barrel-Aged)
Drafting Table Brewing Company
- From:
- Drafting Table Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 09, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 09, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
No canning date (released on 9/24/20, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 12/8/20
Pours a brilliantly clear brown varnish/pale ruby hue with sharp orange accents and topped with just over a finger of fluffy, off-white foam; good head retention leaves a thin curtain of cap, a large, creamy collar, and the occasional grouping of spotty lacing in pockets around the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens with toffee and pronounced notes of corn whiskey into a middle deepening with smoked figs and a nutty vanilla undercurrent impressing itself on the bouquet throughout; cocoa and stale black bread fade with the close.
Taste opens with an immediate impression of light, straight bourbon/corn whiskey before easing to a crescendo of vanilla and oak chips as caramel and figs appear over the mid-palate and dried bakers chocolate, melted caramel, deeper corn, and a light minerality further accents the finish.
Mouthfeel offers a fully rounded medium body feeding into a fluffy, high carbonation, which fades to a steady warming with mild oily textures over the mid-palate and a consistent grit progressing into a splintery dry finish.
Weighty in flavor via the barrel aging (and leaving some impressions of a scotch ale), though composed with enough finesse to leave the beer as a whole drinking incredibly softly for a 9.5% lager; bourbon is light and tentatively integrated, while the base Märzen appears on the sweeter side, and yet the end result is plush and calm, almost acceptably mild.
Dec 09, 2020Pours a brilliantly clear brown varnish/pale ruby hue with sharp orange accents and topped with just over a finger of fluffy, off-white foam; good head retention leaves a thin curtain of cap, a large, creamy collar, and the occasional grouping of spotty lacing in pockets around the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens with toffee and pronounced notes of corn whiskey into a middle deepening with smoked figs and a nutty vanilla undercurrent impressing itself on the bouquet throughout; cocoa and stale black bread fade with the close.
Taste opens with an immediate impression of light, straight bourbon/corn whiskey before easing to a crescendo of vanilla and oak chips as caramel and figs appear over the mid-palate and dried bakers chocolate, melted caramel, deeper corn, and a light minerality further accents the finish.
Mouthfeel offers a fully rounded medium body feeding into a fluffy, high carbonation, which fades to a steady warming with mild oily textures over the mid-palate and a consistent grit progressing into a splintery dry finish.
Weighty in flavor via the barrel aging (and leaving some impressions of a scotch ale), though composed with enough finesse to leave the beer as a whole drinking incredibly softly for a 9.5% lager; bourbon is light and tentatively integrated, while the base Märzen appears on the sweeter side, and yet the end result is plush and calm, almost acceptably mild.
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