Power Wagon - Barrel-Aged
Big Sky Brewing Company
- From:
- Big Sky Brewing Company
- Montana, United States
- Style:
- Wheatwine
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 7.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 29, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 24, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
American wheatwine brewed with three different types of wheat comprising 55% of the grain bill. Aged exclusively in third use American oak Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.05/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
355ml bottle (@9.7 % ABV), day 17 of the 2017 Craft BeerAdvent Calendar, and seemingly revived from the dead, with a 'limited release' indicator below a Canadian maple leaf. Weird.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, yet bright medium golden amber colour, with two flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some boiling cauldron lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and pastry-forward cereal malt, sugary apples, white plums, and pears, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, ethereal generic oaken notes, and some plain earthy, musty, and perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, over-sugared wheaten breakfast cereal, candied guava, pineapple, and kiwi, indistinct domestic citrus rind, a minor vanilla-heavy oakiness, some faint earthy spice, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess contending with the burgeoning boozy essence here. It finishes still pretty sweet, but in a somehow moderated manner.
Overall - this is a rather pleasant and agreeable version of the style, fruity and malty (though the wheat isn't as prominent as one might have been expecting), with a duly restrained near 10 points of alcohol. Great stuff, and very worthy of inclusion in this particular holiday promotion.
Dec 17, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, yet bright medium golden amber colour, with two flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some boiling cauldron lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and pastry-forward cereal malt, sugary apples, white plums, and pears, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, ethereal generic oaken notes, and some plain earthy, musty, and perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, over-sugared wheaten breakfast cereal, candied guava, pineapple, and kiwi, indistinct domestic citrus rind, a minor vanilla-heavy oakiness, some faint earthy spice, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess contending with the burgeoning boozy essence here. It finishes still pretty sweet, but in a somehow moderated manner.
Overall - this is a rather pleasant and agreeable version of the style, fruity and malty (though the wheat isn't as prominent as one might have been expecting), with a duly restrained near 10 points of alcohol. Great stuff, and very worthy of inclusion in this particular holiday promotion.
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2017 at 9.7%.
Clear golden pour, bit of head and slight lace.
Aroma of candied pineapple, mango and papaya. These come through in the flavour, along with some raspy oak and vanilla. Assertive bitterness, but not overwhelming... a bit of fruity sweetness comes through, with a drying alcohol finish.
Dec 17, 2017Clear golden pour, bit of head and slight lace.
Aroma of candied pineapple, mango and papaya. These come through in the flavour, along with some raspy oak and vanilla. Assertive bitterness, but not overwhelming... a bit of fruity sweetness comes through, with a drying alcohol finish.
Reviewed by Gasp262 from Canada (AB)
4.01/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Seems to be unretired at least for the Craft Advent Calendar. Lighter than a barley wine, curiously compelling taste, some lingering alcohol in the aftertaste. A nice brew, one I would have again, if it were not retired.
Dec 17, 2017
Rated by Mekracht from Illinois
4.34/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A lot lighter than a barley wine. Strong citrus flavors.
Apr 18, 2015
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