BridgePort Bourbon Barrel Old Knucklehead

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled. A hazy deep red beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is very sweet with notes of alcohol, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of alcohol and fruit, leading to a drywoody and alcoholic finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy brown with a diminished off-white head. Mild wineous and spiced hoppy with a dark and mild roasted malty base note. Bitter and slight spiced flavoured with a solid caramel malty and dense hoppy note. Ends malty and slight spiced.

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of gunhaver. Hazy amber golden with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of wood, caramel, alcohol and overripe fruit. Quite full-bodied with notes of fruit, caramel and wood. The finish is rather raw and unrefined bitter with quite some alcohol. 311008

Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head Has a sweetish malty slightly hoppy aroma wit hsome hints of bourbon and caramel. Fruity malty caramel and vanilla flavor with some oaky hints and also some hoppy bitter hints. Has a sweetish malty caramel and vanilla finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

<i>Tasting at Papsoe</i>
Hazy red-dark amber color; small creamy head. Creamy &#40;milky&#41; caramel aroma, nice. Strong caramel flavor, some chocolate malt, strong bitterness, roasted nuts character, some hop resins but less American-type hopping than usual, which makes of it an original one, at least, since it´s not the best. Strong ending bitterness.

(22oz. bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of bourbon, caramel, raisins, and toffee. Flavor of caramel malt, bourbon, oak, and dark fruits with a dry finish. Seems kind of scattered (unbalanced).

Hazy medium amber colour. Big nose with a hint of bourbon, lots of fat toffee and caramel malts. Not getting much barrel on the palate, but given how good knucklhead can be with its rich malts, I’m not going to sweat it.

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2012
Name: BA Old Nucklehead
Date: March 07, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear dark ruby red, wispy beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma with a light earthy and oak bitterness
Flavor: sweet dark caramel malt flavor, touch of fruity character, light oak adds the bitterness and a dryness, touch of sweet vanilla, only a psychological hint of bourbon, fleeting barrel tartness

Name: BA Old Nucklehead
Date: September 06, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 3.4 to 3.5
Aroma: a nice fruityness in the aroma along with a touch of vanilla
Flavor: oak and vanilla is coming through stronger in the flavor, still mostly caramel but the bourbon actually shows up in the background this time

Name: BA Old Nucklehead
Date: January 05, 2012
Mode: bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
still caramel and vanilla heavy, lot more earrhyness with so.e light oak,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

(22oz bottle, thanks wickedpete) Medium off-white head atop clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, raisin, faint Bourbon. Taste is moderately sweet, Bourbon, raisin, some ash/roast, caramel. Medium body, light stickiness.

Draught@brewpub (Portland, OR, ABV 9.2 %)
Dark chestnut color, steady brownish head. Malty, sweet fruity, chocolate cake aroma. Medium-bodied. Quite alcoholic. Malty, dark fruits, rye bread, alcohol and late strong hoppyness. Quite hoppy barley wine with better drinkability than ABV indicates.