Girdwood Reserve
Girdwood Brewing Company
- From:
- Girdwood Brewing Company
- Alaska, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.08 | pDev: 0.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Friday at 10:44 PM
- Added:
- Jan 26, 2020
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Girdwood Brewing’s Year One Anniversary Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout.
Our first attempt at an imperial stout. We amped up the Hippy Speedball recipe (sans coffee) and increased the boil to 3 hours. The result is a velvety, chewy monster of a beer with aromas of bourbon and vanilla from the first use barrels.
Aged in Woodruff Reserve’s Single and Double Oak barrels for 2 months-1year.
Our first attempt at an imperial stout. We amped up the Hippy Speedball recipe (sans coffee) and increased the boil to 3 hours. The result is a velvety, chewy monster of a beer with aromas of bourbon and vanilla from the first use barrels.
Aged in Woodruff Reserve’s Single and Double Oak barrels for 2 months-1year.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BillRoth from Maryland
4.04/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Had on tap at Girdwood Brewing. Pours a very nice dark walnut pour with some garnet accents when held to light. Tan head is decent thickness on pour but quickly dissipates; no lacing /no halo. Nose has malt, bourbon, wood and vanilla. Nice!
Taste mirrors but has a distracting background bitterness. This increases as beer warms.
Body starts clean and thin but still smooth.
But as beer warms it becomes a bit syrupy.
Overall it’s a good first shot at doing BBA and ramping up an Imp Stout. Enjoyable brew. No reason to think future brews like this will not be interesting and a credit to the brew crew here.
Jun 02, 2024Taste mirrors but has a distracting background bitterness. This increases as beer warms.
Body starts clean and thin but still smooth.
But as beer warms it becomes a bit syrupy.
Overall it’s a good first shot at doing BBA and ramping up an Imp Stout. Enjoyable brew. No reason to think future brews like this will not be interesting and a credit to the brew crew here.
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