Milwaukee One (Elijah Craig Bourbon Barrel-Aged)
Central Waters Brewing Co.
- From:
- Central Waters Brewing Co.
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 15%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.57 | pDev: 4.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 18, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 12, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our Milwaukee one year Imperial Stout aged 26 months in 19 year old Elijah Craig Bourbon Barrels. Cheers to one year!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.29/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2021 vintage; consumed on 6/8/2023
Pours a dense black body topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dark khaki foam; decent head retention yields a spotty few chunks of cap, large, frothy cap, and a limited splotching of webby lacing holding tentatively to the walls of the glass.
Aromas waft an impressive array of malted and milk chocolate, with smoky toffee edges guiding to roasty barrel tones as a gooey caramel tinge extends across a smooth bourbon backdrop.
Taste brings rich dark chocolate and smoky char into warming bourbon barrel, roast, and residual vanillins; caramel meets a pang of dark fruit sensation through the mid-palate, eventually receding as a flaky char lingers on the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body and a moderate fluff of carbonation, leaving a roasty spritz dispersing to a creamy silk over the mid-palate before easing to a soft, flaky texture through the back end and a subtle dryness sporting a distant stickiness on the finish.
An airy projection of intense malt texture, doused in bourbon oak for enhanced natural sweetness and skewed with a welcoming roast toward a more classic, barrel-aged stout profile.
Jun 09, 2023Pours a dense black body topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dark khaki foam; decent head retention yields a spotty few chunks of cap, large, frothy cap, and a limited splotching of webby lacing holding tentatively to the walls of the glass.
Aromas waft an impressive array of malted and milk chocolate, with smoky toffee edges guiding to roasty barrel tones as a gooey caramel tinge extends across a smooth bourbon backdrop.
Taste brings rich dark chocolate and smoky char into warming bourbon barrel, roast, and residual vanillins; caramel meets a pang of dark fruit sensation through the mid-palate, eventually receding as a flaky char lingers on the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body and a moderate fluff of carbonation, leaving a roasty spritz dispersing to a creamy silk over the mid-palate before easing to a soft, flaky texture through the back end and a subtle dryness sporting a distant stickiness on the finish.
An airy projection of intense malt texture, doused in bourbon oak for enhanced natural sweetness and skewed with a welcoming roast toward a more classic, barrel-aged stout profile.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.26/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Had on tap. Midnight black opaque body with a brown ring. Huge barrel in all aspects, the bourbon slightly stronger than the oak and molasses, but all star. Smell has some char and dark chocolate supporting, taste has fudge, caramel, and earth. Feel is super boozy but never crosses into hot, massive feel with thick and heavy emphases
Oct 22, 2022
Reviewed by 4DAloveofSTOUT from Illinois
4.7/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.7/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
October 23, 2022; on draft at the source with rating.
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January 10, 2022; bottle pour with review.
Appearance: Vigorous pour yields a small cap of medium khaki colored head as the crown on a black as night stout. Cap drops down to no head at all. Thick booze legs. Some glass staining noted as well.
Smell: Milk chocolate with deep mature oak notes & charred wood. The bourbon and oak profile are really glorious here in the aroma department. The bourbon notes from this stout are so inviting.
Taste: Tons of Milk Chocolate notes from this stout, but they are on the drier side. Not quite cocoa nibs or baker cocoa or dark chocolate vibes here. The molasses is really prominent in the middle of the stout and I have got to say that I really don't think that molasses is a flavor that I usually get excited about, but here it's downright delicious in this stout. Lots of oak barrel that starts in the middle and builds to the finish. The finish is really tasty with long lingering notes of smoke, tobacco, oak, and charred wood.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied stout with low and adequate carbonation levels. The texture of this stout is just so creamy & silky. This beer is not boozy at all and way to drinkable for a barrel aged stout.
Overall: Again the extended aging on this non-adjunct barrel aged stout from Central Waters is just straight money. I am going to nod in the favor of the Tattersall Rye as my favorite of the two MKE stouts that CW released. Both are world class, but the rye barrel just makes the stout so much more complex. Another Old School BA stout that brings me back to my roots.
Oct 04, 2022----------------------------------------------------
January 10, 2022; bottle pour with review.
Appearance: Vigorous pour yields a small cap of medium khaki colored head as the crown on a black as night stout. Cap drops down to no head at all. Thick booze legs. Some glass staining noted as well.
Smell: Milk chocolate with deep mature oak notes & charred wood. The bourbon and oak profile are really glorious here in the aroma department. The bourbon notes from this stout are so inviting.
Taste: Tons of Milk Chocolate notes from this stout, but they are on the drier side. Not quite cocoa nibs or baker cocoa or dark chocolate vibes here. The molasses is really prominent in the middle of the stout and I have got to say that I really don't think that molasses is a flavor that I usually get excited about, but here it's downright delicious in this stout. Lots of oak barrel that starts in the middle and builds to the finish. The finish is really tasty with long lingering notes of smoke, tobacco, oak, and charred wood.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied stout with low and adequate carbonation levels. The texture of this stout is just so creamy & silky. This beer is not boozy at all and way to drinkable for a barrel aged stout.
Overall: Again the extended aging on this non-adjunct barrel aged stout from Central Waters is just straight money. I am going to nod in the favor of the Tattersall Rye as my favorite of the two MKE stouts that CW released. Both are world class, but the rye barrel just makes the stout so much more complex. Another Old School BA stout that brings me back to my roots.
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