85
Overall
Aroma
11
Flavor
17
Mouthfeel
4
Appearance
3
Loveland, CO
What Our Editors Thought
“Caramel hot chocolate nose with a hint of fortified wine. Woody chocolate and bourbon notes play against a deep grape sweetness in the sip. Not quite polished, the rougher wood note running through the sip gives it the ragged but pulsing energy of a parkour runner.”
What Our Panel Thought
“Aromatic notes of cherries, rye (pepper), toffee are paired with a bourbon-barrel oak note. Sweetness and low-medium carbonation balance the chocolate, cherry, toffee flavors. Soft alcoholic notes from the oaky bourbon barrel.”
What the Brewers Say
“English-style barleywine aged in a bourbon barrel, then a rye whiskey barrel.”
Review printed in: Rethinking the Classic Pale Ale (Winter 2023)
View IssueDate Reviewed: November 11, 2022