Bourbon Barrel Bock
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Series Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Sublimely elegant this toffee toned Bock is rich with a blend of Wisconsin and German barley malts. Over four months of resting in oak Bourbon Barrels gives this beer a wonderfully smooth body that will improve and mellow with age. Should you choose to enjoy this classic today you can expect a treasure of vanilla, oak and caramel notes to be bolstered by hops from France, Slovenia and Germany. Wild Brett yeast sings in harmony to the tune of Bock. 20 degrees Plato OG makes this Bourbon Barrel a masterwork to remember.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].Unclear medium amber colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, malt, alcohol, ripped fruit, oxidide malt. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruit and berry sweet, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20111023]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... deep brown ... thin lacing ... cheesy bouron .... toffe malt nose ... funky sour tones ... brett ... soft toffee malt ... some dark sugers ... ok ... if a little weird.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Styles. Pours reddish brown. Nose of cinnamon, brown sugar and molasses. Taste is fig, dark fruits, raisin, plum, caramel, brown sugar and molasses.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
12oz bottle poured into a snifter. Has a small but long lasting head. Hazy, cognac colored body. Aroma is an amalgamation of strong bourbon at first but some nice sweet biscuit, licorice-esque alcohol and tolerable wood. Flavor is nice despite all the disparate elements that actually fit well together. The alcohol has also died down in the flavor. Brett isn’t strong and comes off as slick but mixes well with the biscuit-malt character. Very flavorful and memorable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle pours light brown with a medium off white head. Aroma is vanilla, oak and bourbon. Flavor is creamy bourbon and vanilla with a caramel malt and assertive hop finish. This is special stuff.
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 11
This beer was more barrel than bock — and more bourbon than beer. Dark amber pour with small white head. The aroma is oaky and alcoholic — and lots of bourbon. There are notesof malts and some sweet caramel and toffee. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter/sour. Strong taste of bourbon. Thin to medium body, watery texture. Warming finish. I enjoy bourbon barrel beers when the bourbon and barrel add a nice complementary liquor and oak backdrop to a good beer. This isn’t one of those. Still far from drain pour, but nothing to seek out again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle (trade with Ofortuna). Buttery toffee, cherry/apple and alcohol aroma. Clear reddish brown with minimal head. Sweet cherry, vanilla, and apple are the intial flavors followed by a slightly bitter alcohol flavor. Very nice aftertaste of malt and bourbon and leaves the lips numb. A bit of harshness from the alcohol level but a great beer.