Electric Roads
Private Press Brewing

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From:
Private Press Brewing
 
California, United States
Style:
American Barleywine
Ranked #14
ABV:
13.8%
Score:
95
Ranked #1,784
Avg:
4.45 | pDev: 4.49%
Reviews:
3
Ratings:
19
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 17, 2023
Added:
Feb 19, 2021
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  1
Double barrel-aged blend of barleywine-style ales.
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Ratings by leroybrown10:
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Rated by leroybrown10 from Missouri

4.72/5  rDev +6.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

Apr 02, 2021
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Rated: 4.34 by Chuckdiesel24 from Illinois

Jul 17, 2023
 
Rated: 4.28 by DVMin98 from North Carolina

Feb 26, 2023
 
Rated: 4.88 by bret27 from California

Dec 26, 2022
 
Rated: 4.38 by Ristaccia from Nebraska

Dec 11, 2022
 
Rated: 4.3 by NolaHopHead from Louisiana

Oct 07, 2022
 
Rated: 4.41 by vfgccp from New York

Sep 17, 2022
 
Rated: 4.5 by smartassboiler from Illinois

Aug 12, 2022
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.71/5  rDev +5.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
This one pours a fairly dark brown, pretty much black, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells quite nice, with crème brulee, maple, toffee, chocolate, bourbon, and dark fruit.

This has a really wonderful barrel character to it – it gets sweeter and silkier as it warms, it seems. There’s a burnt charred caramel thing here, essentially crème brulee, with some toffee, molasses, bittersweet maple, dusty chocolate, dried dark fruit (raisins, I think), with vanilla as well.

This is medium bodied, with very little booziness to it.

This might be the best beer that I’ve had so far from Private Press – they really knocked it out of the park.
Aug 04, 2022
 
Rated: 4.37 by DefenCorps from Oregon

Jul 11, 2022
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Rated by acurtis from New Jersey

4.24/5  rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
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May 31, 2022
 
Rated: 4.68 by chippo33 from Vermont

Apr 27, 2022
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.4/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
Foggy mahogany with dark red edges under short tan head.

An introduction of lightly smoky roast that's almost porter-like briefly takes the stage before barleywine and barrel characteristics come storming in after.

Fairly hot, next to Arcane Rituals, it's more woody with a balanced bitterness and a dusty nuttiness, while also featuring some old school orange resins towards the tail end.

The medium-light body has a firm carbonation and finishes semi-sticky.
Dec 06, 2021
 
Rated: 4.63 by Dharmelink from Wisconsin

Nov 25, 2021
 
Rated: 4.65 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Oct 17, 2021
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Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey

4.41/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Discharge is analogous to the Rocky Mountain Fisher, with a sunnier aurora per the decanting spread. The highlights come to a murky forest green, deep pine cone, and russet gloom, as a reddish-orange smokescreen becomes consequent to luminosity. On backpedals to reevaluation and reflection is an openness to period, where the carafe leans Smokey topaz besides the vessels more semi-raw/burnt umber hue. The flow and presentation constrains summit formation, as illustrated by the minor sustainability on retention. In this regard, the neckline is not bigwig or resilient in dimension, but allures a beige to armadillo gaze upon the recoiled fine line. The collar’s adherence to the sides of the glass is gradually transcribed, from what was once negligibly worked at inception. Systematically, an elegance behind the warmth of oily/drippy fingers, which offer patterned streaks as minutes turn into the hours of sticky degrees. An outlook that’s clean of nucleation, and one that pushes a class of deft across the timed & turned delivery

S: A workout of sweet sticky malt on scent, which takes a fondness to Figged Duff and chocolate wood-grain bark, while the barrel works a native ascription to burnt maple syrup. The ignition presses forward with exponential growths in honeyed prune, while toffee banquets remotely to Heath melts, Cashew Roco, and Cremino wraps. A conforming undertone inhibits the outbreak with charred ripe fruit, which draws thick plums to the skins of red apples then to the peels of bitter oranges, before the conveyance of dried counters set in. Those counters settle on crystalized prunes, caramelized figs, and withered apricots. Meanwhile, the coordination behind hops is a gentle affair, with services in spiced earth along wood rosin, and a unity that citizens fruity esters. Nonetheless, mid-sensibilities are less akin to hop profiling, as the directive raids malts nutty/bready outline with barrel auxiliary. To this extent, the late mechanics grind pecans to Chelsea Buns, while pushing oaked honey on English bread. All the while, the barrels presence on oaked vanilla & treacle toffee is reverberated inside and out, with alder implications from wood. Hereupon, a notation to palm syrup & cedar pine, before a pickup to leathered dried fruit, while nodding Pedro Ximénez

T: Foretaste accompanies black licorice to the skor bar with maple Bara brith, as the framing molds around bitter chocolate and compound malt. The commencement presses on to Chocolate Amore, Panettone, and Cola de Mono with a grit for deep butterscotch. Correspondingly, sweet molasses, crusted Paydays, and rich dark fruit begin their dictation, as palatable notations smooth out at midriff. This interval comes with elapsed time and hiked calefaction, where the blend calibrates crème pâtissière to dried lavender besides the timbered planks of hickory insinuations. The barrel continues on with the elements behind Long Boys while tying cigar-box taffy to Mission figs, cherry frangipane, and apricot amaretto. A furtherance for thermic warmth, upon an inclining degree, pushes the blend to leathered prunes and dried Colomba di Pasqua. At the same time, a touch of smoked malt baselines against redwood insinuations, from warm-temperate forests. Deliberation on the carryover is an elegance within the interlocked heat component, which remains smooth and beneficial to the structure post finish. Ventilation acclimates the construct to a tempered level of oxidation, which reverberates the aromas expression on Sherry, before neat Cognac, as the hours forge ahead on good terms

M: An eased presence on carbonation that paves a road for the body’s Souped-up drive. The initial bitterness is sensibly set, with smooth dilution that propels a velvety forward motion in malt. That motion is chockfull of chewy, balanced complexity, and a bit of background heat to increment the thickly layered course with a dry appeal. Uniformly, a progression that’s adept to a sleek undertaking, where the texture becomes steadily rich, silky, and luscious. Thereafter, a realigning of a dry composite, for a tailored dexterity, that calls for a bit of oak tannin in the cusp

O: The framework is careful in addressing the hops bitterness to the malts richness behind the blends warmness. A process that’s indicative to the sticky nature of hop greenery. That being to pine resin with a starting foot on earthy/herbal bitters, which return on development, from suspension, and transcribe candied citrus to the bitterly dry measure. Nonetheless, a delicacy in the bitter profiling, as malt choirs the bready sweetness against the casks attunement to soaked vanilla-toffee, and corroded dried fruit. To that extent, the blend is voluptuous and ornately layered with an intense composition to the ambitious finish
Jul 11, 2021
 
Rated: 4.25 by aasher from Indiana

Jul 07, 2021
 
Rated: 4.18 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Jul 02, 2021
 
Rated: 4.25 by Beerbom from California

Mar 31, 2021
Electric Roads from Private Press Brewing
Beer rating: 95 out of 100 with 19 ratings