Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter - Peanut Butter
Incendiary Brewing Company - Winston-Salem
- From:
- Incendiary Brewing Company - Winston-Salem
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 5.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 30, 2021
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Imperial Porter base aged in Woodford Reserve barrels for 18 moths, then conditioned on powdered peanut butter. Bourbon and oak notes with a subtle peanut butter finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
3.67/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Pours espresso colored with a vague head that quickly fades to a ringlet; leggy, with a dribbling pattern
Smell: Charred tones merge with the Bourbon barrel and chocolate with a hint of vanilla
Taste: Very oaky, up front, with the charred malt emerging, along with the Bourbon; chocolate and vanilla arrive, in the middle with a very vague sense of peanut in the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with low to moderate carbonation
Overall: Adjuncts can be tricky and sometimes they don't work out very well
Jan 30, 2021Smell: Charred tones merge with the Bourbon barrel and chocolate with a hint of vanilla
Taste: Very oaky, up front, with the charred malt emerging, along with the Bourbon; chocolate and vanilla arrive, in the middle with a very vague sense of peanut in the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with low to moderate carbonation
Overall: Adjuncts can be tricky and sometimes they don't work out very well
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.62/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Canned on 11/9/20; consumed on 1/13/21
Pours an inky black body capped with just over a finger of bubbly yet compact, mocha foam; the head is relatively short-lived, fading to a few spotty, paper-thin islands of cap and an equally thin collar, while minimal bits of lacing hold to the walls of the glass.
Aromas of smooth straight bourbon are firm upfront, evened with charry oak and dark cocoa; distant peanut powder tones linger in the background as burnt marshmallow develops over the middle; heavily roasted malt characteristics continue to lord over nuances of caramel and lightly smoked toffee into the back end of the bouquet.
Taste opens with toffee and sweet bourbon, soon followed by heavily roasted malts as an oaky chocolate settles over the mid-palate; soft peanut butter comes to fruition on a back end otherwise embracing burly tones of dried oak and saturated bourbon barrel as cocoa powder lingers through the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body with minimal carbonation; a hefty slickness transitions to a seamless and amplified grit/char over the mid-palate, peaking into a sharpening booziness as it dries to a more even-keeled finish.
While a vivid bourbon presence upfront cedes attention to roaster elements of the porter base, the minimal peanut butter presence compounds the disappointment of a barrel-heavy profile; the edges to this one soften over time, just not quite enough to result in much more than a one-dimensional, if competent, brew.
Jan 14, 2021Pours an inky black body capped with just over a finger of bubbly yet compact, mocha foam; the head is relatively short-lived, fading to a few spotty, paper-thin islands of cap and an equally thin collar, while minimal bits of lacing hold to the walls of the glass.
Aromas of smooth straight bourbon are firm upfront, evened with charry oak and dark cocoa; distant peanut powder tones linger in the background as burnt marshmallow develops over the middle; heavily roasted malt characteristics continue to lord over nuances of caramel and lightly smoked toffee into the back end of the bouquet.
Taste opens with toffee and sweet bourbon, soon followed by heavily roasted malts as an oaky chocolate settles over the mid-palate; soft peanut butter comes to fruition on a back end otherwise embracing burly tones of dried oak and saturated bourbon barrel as cocoa powder lingers through the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body with minimal carbonation; a hefty slickness transitions to a seamless and amplified grit/char over the mid-palate, peaking into a sharpening booziness as it dries to a more even-keeled finish.
While a vivid bourbon presence upfront cedes attention to roaster elements of the porter base, the minimal peanut butter presence compounds the disappointment of a barrel-heavy profile; the edges to this one soften over time, just not quite enough to result in much more than a one-dimensional, if competent, brew.
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