Imperial Oak Brewing

Any reports on how Double Dee's is tasting?

 

DD sold out in about 90 min, there were only 360 bottles

 

If anyone is headed up to Great Taste of the Midwest this weekend (which is by far my favorite beer festival in the country that I've ever been), this is the list that Imperial Oak will be bringing out (Booth 317).

• BARREL AGED BEERMUDA TRIANGLE: Style: Tripel. IBU: 32.0. ABV: 9.5. Brewed with Pilsner, Wheat, and Aromatic malts for a light bready malt character which provides the backbone for the fruitiness and spice character from the Belgian yeast. The beer was then aged for 1 year in California Chardonnay barrels. The barrel aging adds notes of citrus, apple, wine and oak.

• BARREL AGED QUIET GIANT- BOURBON BA IMPERIAL STOUT WITH VANILLA AND CINNAMON: Style: Russian Imperial Stout. OG: 1.131. IBU: 94.0. ABV: 15.0. SRM: 61.2. Brewed with lots of roasted and crystal malts for body and complexity. Vanilla beans and Cinnamon sticks were added to the fermenter after fermentation was complete. Each year we brew the same base beer and age it for 1 year in Bourbon Barrels. After the beer comes out of the barrels it is spiced using different spices each year.

• BARREL AGED UDDER MADNESS: Style: American Double/Imperial Stout. IBU: 45.0. ABV: 10.0. A blend of Chocolate Malt, Roast Barley, and Black Malt give the beer its chocolate and coffee character. The body and sweetness are provided by crystal malts and the addition of Lactose (Milk Sugar) which is not fermented by beer yeast. The beer was then aged for a year in Bourbon barrels which add notes of bourbon, vanilla, oak and spice.

• CRANK IT DANK: Style: American IPA. IBU: 60.0. ABV: 7.0. Brewed with a very simple malt bill of Pale and Pilsner malt and a bit of sugar to dry the beer out. It is aggressively hopped with Equinox, Citra and Mosaic. These are newer hop varieties that are bred to have a strong, pungent aroma and flavor often described as “dank”.

• MAPLE BARREL AGED DOUBLE DEE'S: IBU: 53.0. ABV: 9.2. A blend of brown malt and roasted malts create a smooth, chocolatey roasted character with a bit of sweetness and noted of dark fruits. The beer was then aged in a barrel that first held bourbon then maple syrup. This gives the beer notes of bourbon, vanilla, oak and maple.

• SUMMER HIBISCUS WIT: Style: Witbier. IBU: 15.0. ABV: 5.0. This is a traditional Belgian Wit (White) Beer with a bit of a twist. Brewed with some flaked oats and wheat along with Pilsner and wheat malt to give the beer a light body along with a smooth, creamy mouth feel. We also added a bit of hibiscus along with the traditional orange peel and coriander to give the beer added complexity, a slightly tart finish and a pink hue.

• TEQUILA BARREL AGED DOM BEERSAISON: Style: Mixed-Fermentation Sour. IBU: 30.0. ABV: 9.0. This is our Kettle soured Imperial Saison aged for a year in Mexican Tequila barrels. The result is a complex beer with notes of agave, citrus, oak, spice and a refreshingly tart finish.

 

Next Saturday Aug 26th at 12pm we will be releasing our bourbon barrel aged Odin’s Beard. This 11% imperial red ale spent just over a year in freshly emptied Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels. While resting in Valhalla this deep scarlet brew gathered a vibrant array of toffees, rich black cherry jam, cinnamon pastries.

We have also taken a single keg and infused it with toasted coconut chips and Madagascar vanilla beans, adding another level of complexity. Both will be pouring at noon, and 22oz bottles of original version will be available for $15 (qty limited).

Per usual, our good friends at Burger Antics will be flipping their finest for you. Don’t miss your chance to hang with Odin in the longhouse!

 

I missed the Beard, unfortunately. Will it be on tap for a couple of days?
And any tasting notes yet?

 

Regular should be on for a couple of days, I don't think the Coconut will be on much longer (if it hasn't kicked already).

 

I grabbed one tonight. Whoa! Boozy.

Thanks IO

 

Join us Saturday Sept 30th for our 4th Annual Imperial Oak-toberfest celebration! We'll have the big tent set up with the beer trailer and a wild/sour bar in the Savage Oak Room. Please note that bottle sales and all out door beer sales are cash only. Here are the details.

-Commemorative 1/2 Liter Drinking "Das Boots" available for sale starting at noon. $15 includes your first fill, $5 fills after.

- Brandy barrel aged Sinister Minister, Belgian Quad, tapping and bottle release. Barrel aged bottles are $15 (CASH ONLY), will be sold from the adjacent storage space at 12pm, more details to follow soon.

- Live Oktoberfest music by Super Oberkrainer (sets at 2pm, 4:00pm, 7:00pm and 9pm)

- Food Trucks
12 pm-Burger Antics, Ofrenda Food Truck, The Roaming Hog, Shrimp Shack
5 pm- Toasty Cheese Mobile Eatery, Twisted Classics, Smokin' BBQ Kitchen

-Tap List (*also on tap outside)
Das Boot- Oktoberfest*
Kaiser- Kolsch*
Hefe'nother- Hefeweizen*
Cranken Sie Hop- Manderina/Huell Melon/Blanc IPA*
Nobody's Alt But Mine- Dusseldorf Altbeir
Dark Gourd- Pumpkin Ale*
Citra Harvest- Fresh (Wet) Citra Hopped Pale Ale*
Haulin' Oats- Oatmeal Stout
Brother's Keeper- Imperial Honey Saison
Prediction?...Pain!- Imperial IPA
Buzz Lite Beer- Honey Golden Ale
Dave's Pale Ale- Citra/Galaxy Pale Ale
Flaming Moe's- Smoked Helles
Crank It Wheat- Lemondrop Hopped Wheat IPA

-Infusions (*on deck at open, tapped as other beers kick)
Das Nuts- Pecan/Almond Oktoberfest
Dark Gourd Latte- Coffee Pumpkin Ale
S'more Moe's- S'more Smoked Helles
Hefe'nother Elderberry- Elderberry Hefeweizen
Kaiser's Cucumber- Cucumber Kolsch*
Haulin' PB&J- Peanut Butter and Jelly Oatmeal Stout*
Spiced Pear Buzz- Cinnamon/Pear Honey Golden Ale*

-Savage Oak Wild/Sour Beers (on tap in Savage Oak Room)
Dom Beerignon- Brett Berliner Weisse
Dom Cherry- Brett Berliner Weisse
Dom Peach- Brett Berliner Weisse
Dom Blackberry- Brett Berliner Weisse
Straw- Wild Saison
Crank It Funk- Brett IPA

-Barrel Aged Beers (on tap outside, CASH ONLY)
Brandy Barrel Aged Sinister Minister- Belgian Quad
Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Gourd- Pumpkin Ale
Maple Bourbon BA Sugar Shack- Maple Brown Ale
Chocolate Coconut Mead Barrel Aged Admiral Ackbeer- Belgian Dubbel
Gin Barrel Aged Mai Way Or The Highway- Maibock
Gin Barrel Aged Saule de Blond- Beire de Garde
Bourbon Barrel Aged Saule de Ambre- Beire de Garde
Gin Barrel Aged Saule de Brune- Beire de Garde

 

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What's the feeling on BA I Must Break You? Does it stand up to Quiet Giant?

 

It looks like they released it in bottles last year (2016). I have never had it before. It currently has a rating of 4.05 on Untappd, and BA Quiet Giant has a rating of 4.42. I don't consider Untappd the authority on beer reviews, but this will at least give you some idea.

 

Quiet Giant is a much larger beer than I Must Break You (15% ABV for Quiet Giant and 10% ABV for I Must Break You), with a higher original gravity, final gravity, hopping, and adjuncts as a reference point @PhilBallins.

This will be the 4th bottled release of I Must Break You (2015 1st release - Koval 4 Grain Whiskey, 2015 2nd release - Mississippi Distilling, 2016 - Breckenridge) and you can always find the bottle log here for your reference.

http://www.imperialoakbrewing.com/bottle-release-archive/

This upcoming release was aged in Old Forester Bourbon Barrels @Italy61587.

 

I agree,on tap it was one of the best beers I've had this year but opened a bottle a couple months ago and it was a flat sweet sticky mess. I have 1 bottle left and it would be great if you could somehow re-carb it, if that's at all possible and see how it turns out.

 

I had the same problem for the same beer / year. Barely any hiss when opened almost totally flat.

 

I moved a bottle up in the rotation due to this. I looked back at my October review of my first bottle and was reminded it looked flat, but I chalked that up to barrel aging, and didn't note any deficiency. We'll see what three more months tastes like.