Black Diamond Brandy Barrel Grand Cru

Brewed by Black Diamond Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Concord, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass

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2012.05.14 - 22oz bottle in goblet. Pours mostly clear deep brown, some red evident with light. What head there is disappears quickly. Aroma is sweetness and vanilla. Taste is the same. Sweetness (bordering on too sweet) on the front end, followed quickly by vanilla, resolving to a more neutral taste. Not loving this but it's not bad. Would be better for a winter night or something, as opposed to a warm late spring night.

(22oz bottle, 2011 vintage) Pours a clear amber body with a medium beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, pine, oak, brandy, and caramel. Flavor of caramel, dark fruits, vanilla, oak, and brandy.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with thick, frothy off-white head; decent retention and lacing. Aroma is brandy, floral hops, caramel malt, figs, light oak, and brown sugar. Flavor is very reminiscent of candy corn; sweet malt and fruit esters with faint supporting hops; lightly sweet finish. Medium body, carbonation, and warmth.

22oz bottle pours a translucent copper amber with some creamy, beige head. Nose of caramel, vanilla, butterscotch, a little apple, some tartness. Flavor is overly sweet, candy apple, caramel, flabby, candy sugar. Full bodied, sweet finish.

hazy chestnut, large bubbled frothy white head reduces to spotty island head with ring. Nose is very sweet, black cherry cola, light chocolate, cardboard. Flavor is sweet cake and cola, peanut butter mid, light mint and sugar through finish with estery hints of banana and dough, light dms vegetal in end.

Bottle. Pours hazy brown with a medium, frothy and bubbly tan head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is dates and figs, brandy, oak and caramel malt with light toast notes. Flavor is caramel, vanilla and brandy, oak, light hops and bitterness with a sweet finish. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation.

Thanks to Brad for sharing this bottle. Served in a SAVOR snifter. Pours a moderately-dark brown color with a nice light tan head and a bit of lacing on the way down. The nose carries a good bit of brandy plus some dark fruits and a bit of brown sugar. Faint caramel. Flavor hits the brandy notes pretty well with some dark fruit in the background. Medium body and good carbonation. Pretty decent.

Deep reddish brown with a floral, nutty and fruity nose. Some brandy- grape aromas as well. This is very sweet tasting of fruitcake and baking spice. Lower carbonation with a long, sweet finish.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, cocoa, slight Rum, light vanilla, a hint of Brandy, plums, chocolate, slight roasting, and dark ripe fruit. Poured deep orange/burnt sienna in color with a small, loose, tan head that disappeared very quickly. Slightly sparkling. A few tiny and medium-sized particles throughout. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of malt, chocolate, light vanilla, dark ripe fruit, cocoa, a hint of Brandy, slight roasting, a hint of wood, and some brown sugar. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, cocoa, roast, dark ripe fruit, hint of wood, hint of Brandy finish is dry. 8%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

Nice nose of brandy, belgian yeast, dust banana, spicy sweetness, dark fruit, vanilla, almost tart dark fruit. Nice complex aroma - sweet side for sure. Pours dark brownish red, auburn and shit, great foam and wonderful lace. Lots of dark fruit, brown sugar vanilla, some sweet brandy, airy phenolic yeast, a little dusty. Some light toasted malts. Lots of stuff going on here, mostly sweet. These fucks love vanilla beans apparently. Medium bodied, dry, with light alcohol notes, and perhaps a very light touch of tart dark fruit. Better than the bourbon.