Toppling Goliath Rue the Crown

Think you are correct, the younger the barrel the more oak flavors.

 

I would guess that 80-90% of the BA brews I've had lacked barrel characteristics. In my mind, this length is promising but I also love Bourbon, Rye and Scotch whisk[e]y. I don't think this will have the tannin flavor you speak of. Mike knows what he's doing with BA brews.

 

Seems? No, it's not a rumor. I was at the taproom for 2 hours. Not one Rue bottle over the bar. It has not dropped.

 

Have you tried idiots drool?

Reviews have seemed to stray away from when I had it but it tasted like rotten wood

 

I've had lots of barrel aged beers in the last decade plus, and many that have had far too much wood character and tannin, and there's never been very much correlation with length of time in barrels.

 

Very very possible that it doesn't, and I wasn't trying to imply I think it's a bad beer, I have no idea. In fact, I would assume it is a good beer or they would have dumped it. I'm just saying a beer can be too barrely. Cheers

 

It does make since that the 27 year old bourbon would have stripped out a lot of it. I imagine that was a woody bourbon for sure

 

Starkbier, King in the North

 

Not sure why people are complaining about it being too thin, the base beer is Naughty 90 or Naughty Temple which are Oak Aged IPAs. Did you think it was a stout?

Naughty Temple gave me goose bumps due to the heavy booze taste when fresh. One sip was more than enough. I can't imagine the same beer with more time the barrel....yuck.

 

They?

 

Rue the crown kicked at toppling Goliath tap room.

 

Does that mean people actually drank it????

 

They also had a case of bottles according to Twitter yesterday. I'm sure those are long gone by this point.

 

They lasted about 10 minutes. I saw the tweet and, from 2.5 hours away, thought "oh well". I wasn't sold on it anyway given that I did not like Naughty 90 at all.

As far as the too much barrel discussion, ever had Oak Aged Jai Alai? That stuff tasted like your sucking on oak shavings of uncured wood straight off the planer. I didn't dump it, but I struggled to get through a can of it. You need a really big beer to stand up to that much barrel.

 

I personally loved the Naughty 90, I loved how the oak made the EIPA taste way more woody and boozy. On the other hand, I hate the bigger beer Oak Aged Yeti, to me that tastes like musty chocolate and licking a plank.

 

I thought Naughty 90 was great, I don't know that I would want barrel aging in a beer that thin, but the oak spirals or whatever they used really worked nicely in the same way a lot of the cedar aged beers I've tasted have. Big wood character, lots of tannic structure, but well integrated.

 

And I've never cared for Naughty 90, but I liked how the hops had a bitterness to the back end of Rue. I didn't catch the oak nearly as much. The thinner mouthfeel was unusual for a BA beer, but it worked for me.

Looking back after a day, the barrel was the primary flavor, with bitterness at the end, and just a little bit of the caramely/oaky/malt flavors in the middle.

 

Being a harsh TG critic (not of mike and the beer but of some the other stuff that goes on), I honestly kind of enjoyed naught 90 (for what it is), looking forward to trying a glass of the imperial version