Double Barrel Rye Heights
Wax Wings Brewing Company
- From:
- Wax Wings Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 14.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.43 | pDev: 4.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 12, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Double mash imperial stouts aged 12-16 months in rye whiskey barrels, then blended to taste and aged an additional half year in Willet Family Estate 8 year rye whiskey casks.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan
4.49/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A - Pours a deep dark brown with a very thin tan head.
S - Aroma is dark chocolate, charred oak and bourbon.
T - The taste is dark chocolate, vanilla, caramel, heavy oak and a nice lingering bourbon heat.
M - Medium body with low carbonation. Syrupy mouthfeel with a slick dry finish.
O - This is killer. Tons of barrel throughout.
Mar 01, 2025S - Aroma is dark chocolate, charred oak and bourbon.
T - The taste is dark chocolate, vanilla, caramel, heavy oak and a nice lingering bourbon heat.
M - Medium body with low carbonation. Syrupy mouthfeel with a slick dry finish.
O - This is killer. Tons of barrel throughout.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.12/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
2022 vintage; consumed on 6/14/2023
Pours a lighter, motor-oil black body sporting auburn/mahogany hues and topped with just over a finger of dark khaki foam; decent head retention leaves a sparse, paper-thin cap, a modest, frothy collar, and minimal-no lacing holding to the walls of the glass with any longevity.
Aromas of layered barrel character find brief sensations of ice cream sandwich as vanilla creme is countered with distant cherry and a balancing smoke/barrel char, with rye spice prevailing through the back end of the bouquet.
Taste brings milk chocolate against a potent rye spice upfront, with malted dark cocoa layered over the mid-palate with a gooey marshmallow edge as notes of leather and pipe tobacco linger.
Mouthfeel offers a body on the lighter end of medium and a lower-end carbonation, leaving silky-thick textures into a briefly roasty mid-palate and a dry back end sporting hints of richer stickiness lingering past the swallow.
A dessert cordial essence tempered with rye spice explores a tentative medium between lush sweetness and prickly roast; a casual barrel integration saves this one from leaning too heavily on overindulgence.
Jun 16, 2023Pours a lighter, motor-oil black body sporting auburn/mahogany hues and topped with just over a finger of dark khaki foam; decent head retention leaves a sparse, paper-thin cap, a modest, frothy collar, and minimal-no lacing holding to the walls of the glass with any longevity.
Aromas of layered barrel character find brief sensations of ice cream sandwich as vanilla creme is countered with distant cherry and a balancing smoke/barrel char, with rye spice prevailing through the back end of the bouquet.
Taste brings milk chocolate against a potent rye spice upfront, with malted dark cocoa layered over the mid-palate with a gooey marshmallow edge as notes of leather and pipe tobacco linger.
Mouthfeel offers a body on the lighter end of medium and a lower-end carbonation, leaving silky-thick textures into a briefly roasty mid-palate and a dry back end sporting hints of richer stickiness lingering past the swallow.
A dessert cordial essence tempered with rye spice explores a tentative medium between lush sweetness and prickly roast; a casual barrel integration saves this one from leaning too heavily on overindulgence.
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