Old Town - Barrel-Aged
Dog Island Brewing
- From:
- Dog Island Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - aged for 200 days in toasted oak barrels, from 'First Choice Cooperage near Edmonton', who don't seem to have a very strong online presence.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with some amber basal highlights, and one flabby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather fizzy brown head, which leaves a bit of boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of rye whisky, vanilla, bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, a hint of dark stone fruitiness, and some tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, medium chocolate wafers, more rye-forward barrel woodsiness, day-old coffee grounds, and more well-understated leafy, musty, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its barely-there frothiness, the body a hefty middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess slowly popping its head in as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, whisky, and mocha essences mixing and matching to their hearts' content.
Overall - well, I am kinda surprised at the amount of barrel character that I'm getting in this offering, and that they somehow kept the ABV level with the base brew. Interesting, in that the flavours have me imagining a shot of rye poured into yer favourite Holiday java shop concoction.
Dec 18, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with some amber basal highlights, and one flabby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather fizzy brown head, which leaves a bit of boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of rye whisky, vanilla, bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, a hint of dark stone fruitiness, and some tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, medium chocolate wafers, more rye-forward barrel woodsiness, day-old coffee grounds, and more well-understated leafy, musty, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its barely-there frothiness, the body a hefty middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess slowly popping its head in as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, whisky, and mocha essences mixing and matching to their hearts' content.
Overall - well, I am kinda surprised at the amount of barrel character that I'm getting in this offering, and that they somehow kept the ABV level with the base brew. Interesting, in that the flavours have me imagining a shot of rye poured into yer favourite Holiday java shop concoction.
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