Adelaide With Cherries
Fair Isle Brewing
- From:
- Fair Isle Brewing
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 9.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.62 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 16, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 16, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Born out of a recipe from our homebrewing days, Adelaide is our take on recreating the oft overlooked Adambier style. Hailing from the era of pre-industrialized malting processes, these strong ales exhibited a smoke-forward profile from the use of wood-fired kilns and were usually aged for an extended period in wood.
We started with a robust grist of Munich, Vienna, and Chocolate malts alongside the star of the show: Beechwood Smoked Barley. This ingredient allowed us to emulate that smoky aspect, while supporting a more rounded and rich malt base. This version of Adelaide was aged in Westland Peated Whiskey casks atop Montmorency Cherries from Rowley and Hawkins Fruit Farms in Eastern Washington.
We started with a robust grist of Munich, Vienna, and Chocolate malts alongside the star of the show: Beechwood Smoked Barley. This ingredient allowed us to emulate that smoky aspect, while supporting a more rounded and rich malt base. This version of Adelaide was aged in Westland Peated Whiskey casks atop Montmorency Cherries from Rowley and Hawkins Fruit Farms in Eastern Washington.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
4.62/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.62/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Poured from 375mL bottle into a tulip. This is batch #1.
Appearance: rich, dark amber-brown hue with a finger of frothy tan foam atop with perhaps a little bit of an amber cast. Attractive!
Smell: smoke, cherries, and chocolate, with a little bit of funk and tart. A weird combination -- and I am very much here for it!
Taste: taste is much more cherry, chocolate, and caramel forward, with just a hint of smoke that shows up toward the end. It really gives it a roasty character. I would never have guessed peated whiskey cherry oak adambier as a a thing at all, let alone one I would love. And I really, really do. Like ... really.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a good carbonation and a good creaminess considering that the body is not huge.
Overall: this beer almost could not be tuned more to my exact taste. It's a great beer, objectively, but for me personally, it'd be damn hard to surpass.
Apr 16, 2022Appearance: rich, dark amber-brown hue with a finger of frothy tan foam atop with perhaps a little bit of an amber cast. Attractive!
Smell: smoke, cherries, and chocolate, with a little bit of funk and tart. A weird combination -- and I am very much here for it!
Taste: taste is much more cherry, chocolate, and caramel forward, with just a hint of smoke that shows up toward the end. It really gives it a roasty character. I would never have guessed peated whiskey cherry oak adambier as a a thing at all, let alone one I would love. And I really, really do. Like ... really.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a good carbonation and a good creaminess considering that the body is not huge.
Overall: this beer almost could not be tuned more to my exact taste. It's a great beer, objectively, but for me personally, it'd be damn hard to surpass.
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