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Private Press Brewing

- From:
- Private Press Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 16.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.34 | pDev: 3%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 22, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 04, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
A blend of double barrel-aged Munichwine ales.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by kitch from Hong Kong
4.49/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A 1 pint 0.9 fl. oz. bottle, with no clear bottled on or best before date, poured into a snifter glass.
Appearance: A brownish orange rusty colour with a thin beige head that disappeared quickly, while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Butterscotch, toffee, raisin, almond, bourbon.
Taste: Butterscotch, toffee, crème brulee, raisin, marzipan, almond, bourbon, with notes of spicy rye on the back end.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: A very enjoyable sipper with great aromas and flavours.
Apr 22, 2026Appearance: A brownish orange rusty colour with a thin beige head that disappeared quickly, while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Butterscotch, toffee, raisin, almond, bourbon.
Taste: Butterscotch, toffee, crème brulee, raisin, marzipan, almond, bourbon, with notes of spicy rye on the back end.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: A very enjoyable sipper with great aromas and flavours.
Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey
4.41/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Prolonging the transfers, and subtle agitations, lends a trained etch. The viscosity drives this through conditional & situational humidity, as a way to welcome the cathedral arches. That is to say, there are gradual droplets that transpire around the administration(s), where aeriation is encouraged. Meanwhile, the coloration to the anatomy has a blackish purple extraction, which has an eggplant trace. This aspect transpires to the tumbler, while connoting a new black currant tone, for enamoring the embassy purple highlights. Continually, the tones are provoked through the outside emissions, which drives a Russian violet canvas to the carafe. Just above, a linen to parchment neck that’s instant to fold, while incorporating a bone white brim to the painting palette. That initial fold takes place within deciseconds, while the later resistance holds to the minutes to later exceed / > 0.15 hr, as segregation takes place. Correspondingly, minimal lace per the grain on hydrophobic polypeptides, aside the molecule cross-links
S: Wort compositions perform alongside the fermentable barriers in a strategic fashion, as the ethanol & organic responses depict the layered ester engagements. Albeit, soft to the vatted degradations, which provide a dynamic complication throughout. The administrations have an isoamyl octanoate cusp on orange peels, which have a ganache coating under sifted sugars. This is augmented with hemicelluloses and oak lactones, as they pencil in vanilla wafers. Secondly, a furfural directive on Riesen’s + Werther’s Originals, while Far Breton/s underscore. There is a eugenol underwriting in circumference, which strengthens in due course. Correspondingly, there are baking spices in motion, for laboring cloves amid a calm nutmeg sympathy. The path climates obstacles upon the later revisitations, where aeriation is swiftly embraced, and where °F is impelled to a degree > 78. Namely, rapid hurdles that personify the resemblances to Hennessy XO, and pin oaked hides to dried fruits. At the rear, brush fires to neighbor burnt licorice, beyond engulfed caravans. Just as, the hop properties combust coniferous woodlands, while supporting the fine-grained tannins
T: Hydrolysable properties have a direct association to the hop backings, as they provide an enhanced sensibility, beyond the diastatic enzyme conversions. This has a heptanol butyrate implication to the beta-damascenone vexations, when contemplating the fermentable aspects to the lupulin pillars. A path that has a sharp footing, for wandering temperate forests, of age-old timbers. Coupled with, a cocopandan spread on flapper pies, beyond a marzipan posting. The esters are seldom in their interactions, as are the lupulin symmetries. Yet, the fermentable aspects provide an embracing density, which grows on the aforementioned butyrates, while denoting isoamyl octanoates + formats. Principally, this hones currants above orgeat syrups, before conveying an orange to plum cake. The development has a Palo Cortado resemblance, when permitting an increase that possesses time. at a temperature > 80°F. Markedly, a resemblance to air-cured tobacco aside British flakes, in addition to old cherry wood pipes. The continuation brings a charred aspect over red fruits & split leathers, as 4-ethylguaiacols ramp up in the later hours. Throughout this period, oxidation enhances those sherry qualities, while separately addressing cognac bugs around wild grape lianas
M: The casks lend an intensive warmth with a firewater calculatedness, against the inferior ebullitions. A sharp carving that eventually eases overtime, as the prolonged decants provide a leveled slickness. The headways are welcoming to the dry polyphenol compounds, while sustaining a logical sweetness to the static desiccations
O: A munichwine blend that profits off the rye casks deftly, as the wort configurations assign the ester-y nuances. An output that addresses the porous woods through tannin superiorities, while attuning the thick starch fractions with a secondary hop bite. Principally, an insightful blend that stabilizes the unstable phenols appropriately, while continuing to pursue the complicatedly artistic cessations
Oct 25, 2024S: Wort compositions perform alongside the fermentable barriers in a strategic fashion, as the ethanol & organic responses depict the layered ester engagements. Albeit, soft to the vatted degradations, which provide a dynamic complication throughout. The administrations have an isoamyl octanoate cusp on orange peels, which have a ganache coating under sifted sugars. This is augmented with hemicelluloses and oak lactones, as they pencil in vanilla wafers. Secondly, a furfural directive on Riesen’s + Werther’s Originals, while Far Breton/s underscore. There is a eugenol underwriting in circumference, which strengthens in due course. Correspondingly, there are baking spices in motion, for laboring cloves amid a calm nutmeg sympathy. The path climates obstacles upon the later revisitations, where aeriation is swiftly embraced, and where °F is impelled to a degree > 78. Namely, rapid hurdles that personify the resemblances to Hennessy XO, and pin oaked hides to dried fruits. At the rear, brush fires to neighbor burnt licorice, beyond engulfed caravans. Just as, the hop properties combust coniferous woodlands, while supporting the fine-grained tannins
T: Hydrolysable properties have a direct association to the hop backings, as they provide an enhanced sensibility, beyond the diastatic enzyme conversions. This has a heptanol butyrate implication to the beta-damascenone vexations, when contemplating the fermentable aspects to the lupulin pillars. A path that has a sharp footing, for wandering temperate forests, of age-old timbers. Coupled with, a cocopandan spread on flapper pies, beyond a marzipan posting. The esters are seldom in their interactions, as are the lupulin symmetries. Yet, the fermentable aspects provide an embracing density, which grows on the aforementioned butyrates, while denoting isoamyl octanoates + formats. Principally, this hones currants above orgeat syrups, before conveying an orange to plum cake. The development has a Palo Cortado resemblance, when permitting an increase that possesses time. at a temperature > 80°F. Markedly, a resemblance to air-cured tobacco aside British flakes, in addition to old cherry wood pipes. The continuation brings a charred aspect over red fruits & split leathers, as 4-ethylguaiacols ramp up in the later hours. Throughout this period, oxidation enhances those sherry qualities, while separately addressing cognac bugs around wild grape lianas
M: The casks lend an intensive warmth with a firewater calculatedness, against the inferior ebullitions. A sharp carving that eventually eases overtime, as the prolonged decants provide a leveled slickness. The headways are welcoming to the dry polyphenol compounds, while sustaining a logical sweetness to the static desiccations
O: A munichwine blend that profits off the rye casks deftly, as the wort configurations assign the ester-y nuances. An output that addresses the porous woods through tannin superiorities, while attuning the thick starch fractions with a secondary hop bite. Principally, an insightful blend that stabilizes the unstable phenols appropriately, while continuing to pursue the complicatedly artistic cessations
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