Canterbury Scene
Private Press Brewing

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From:
Private Press Brewing
 
California, United States
Style:
English Barleywine
ABV:
15.6%
Score:
+3 ratings needed
Avg:
4.09 | pDev: 6.6%
Ratings:
7 | reviews: 3
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 21, 2024
Added:
Dec 28, 2022
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.35 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Aug 21, 2024
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Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey

4.35/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: The viscosity becomes known over time, as climate imparts the carafe with thermal legatees. A sight that is furthered across the churns, which nuance the vino tears. This results over the preceding detriment, of foam-negative properties, and (continually) thrives in the long run. In this scenario, the collar struggles to retain the ash white front to the almond toned brim, which begins invalidating at the ½ hour. Consequently, a trivial cling that’s honest to the designed temperament. These actions top a midnight body with a sable glare, while highlighting a bistre to brown stone care

S: An isoamyl formate existence that’s perceptibly fragile under the cask guards, which push a lipid density to the diastatic enzyme conversions. The initial writings draw on raisinets with a plum to red currant backing, while pitching the dark rosin commonly found in naval stores. Subsequently, caramel covers apples to fig leather, as cashew brittles skyline, before presenting tobacco Cakes. That presence comes thinly cut, for a slow burning subtlety, which ascribes British flakes. All the while, a baked warmth through the fermentable sugars that cusp la Tarte Normande, as the caramelized maltols assist in the assessment. The advanced stages ventilate to cut CO2, for a softer – rounder – output, which nuances (odor) complexity. Namely, a tannin charter above an Eitt Sett exposition, as the third hour surrenders to the fourth. Across the extended hours (> 5hrs), an Amontillado provocation neighbors a smart solvency. The barrel act presses throughout, and incrementally builds on an oak cube subsistence, while a piney hop convoy aids the PVW run. Chronologically, a parched aridness that craftly combusts on historic dwellings, as the executions pit grape skins alongside an arboriculture resilience

T: The hop effect contributes a subtle countenance under the roasted malt happenings, as the esters neighbor an oak lactone sentiment. Analogous to scent, there is a push on isoamyl formats, when cataloging the undersides with a butyrate sanction. However, the draw is more on the saccharifications that midriff on a baked Charlotte, beyond brown apricots & gristly prunes. A formation that maintains a dark fruit condition, as applied to the fermentable actions aside the malt businesses. In step, a revealing furfural consignment, where timing permits a new concentration. That concentration drives an almond to hazelnut toastiness, when defining the phenolic aldehydes through lignin degradations. Chiefly, vanillin under a guaiacol shadow, which accompanies eugenol near baking spices. Notwithstanding, a blackstrap to brown sugar alteration atop Douce kokoye, as esters complement a wooded – hop – mintiness. The intervals are staged with aeration, by phasing the decant around 74°F, for oxidizing the involvedness over a scorched appreciation. In due manner, a sherry note on Amontillado, which heightens the nuttiness, when contextualizing the dark - leathery tobacco – abandonments

M: There is a calmness to the inebriant thickness, so as to not incinerate the course. That is to say, a leveled richness with a warming cognizance, upon the lower carbonated tiers. An attenuated driver that finds aid within the tannin subscripts, where the indexes get subjected to a thawing environment, when weathering the conditions

O: A blend that distinguishes the English yeast perceptibly & prodigiously, in a de-emphasized sense, which prevents an ethyl acetate overcast. This perception is run under the cask acclimations that take place above the hop residencies, when measuring the Munich malt licenses
Jun 26, 2023
 
Rated: 3.75 by CheapBeerBuzz from California

Mar 12, 2023
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Reviewed by IMFletcher from Kentucky

4.03/5  rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Bottle pour; faint barrel notes on the nose and not much else. Flavors leaned sherry-like without many layers. Finish was lightly dry with some heft in the body. Not worth the price by any means, but can honestly say I haven't had a PP bottle that was.
Feb 23, 2023
 
Rated: 4 by acurtis from New Jersey

Feb 18, 2023
 
Rated: 3.71 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Feb 11, 2023
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.43/5  rDev +8.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Burnt dark brown with clear reddish-brown edges and essentially no head, though a tilt leaves a little an oily film on the glass.

Nicely oaky and not splintery, a warming booze accompanies dark red grape qualities that emulate a nice port or sherry, allowing deeply savory notes to counter the sweetness in ways unlike abrasive hops would.
Feb 03, 2023