Boulder Beer Mortimer

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Black IPA
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Draft at RR Street. Pours medium brown with off-white head. Nose is dark malt, oaky bourbon, hops, vanilla, and sherry. Tastes malty, with a well integrated oaky and bourbony flavor, vanilla rising as it warms, backup hops, and malt to spare. This one gels very well.

Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours black with a creamy tan head. Aroma of oak with a hint of pine. Full bodied. Flavor is rich dark malt with lots of oak and maybe a touch of bourbon. Suddenly it’s really oaky. Finishes slightly sweet pine. Excellent.

Pours a deep brown hue with a fraction of a head. Not much to the aroma category, but the flavors of roasted nuts, caramel with a mild bitter finish. Decent, but not amazing.

draft @ redlight redlight. Light coffee notes on the aroma with hints of chocolate. Pours a very dark amber, brown color with no head. Bourbon flavors up front very oaky with vanilla notes, followed by bitter hops and a sticky piney aftertaste. Very nice.

8 ounce sample on tap at the Davis Beer Shoppe. This beer is apparently a Black IPA that was aged on bourbon barrels. A tricky style classification. The aroma has a nice vanilla and oaky bourbon character. Not too much else going on in the nose, but that is certainly fine with me. I dig the nicely aromatic bourbon character. Mildly transparent dark mahogany body with some cola-colored hues present. Nice, creamy off-white/light tan head that leaves some great lacing. Starts with a good deal of bourbon flavors. Followed by some lightly sweet vanilla in the middle. Finishes with herbal and bitter spicy notes. This is a little too thin for me, but this is nicely flavorful. I don’t know what the point of barrel-aging and IPA is. Seems like a waste of hops to me. Nonetheless, this is the only Boulder Brewing Company beer that I would ever consider buying again, so good work.

Taster at the Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours dark brown. Markets itself as a black IPA however no trace of hoppiness. Oak and caramel aromas come out strong. A bit boozey.