Glacier Razz XXX - Bourbon Barrel

Brewed by Glacier BrewHouse
Style: Fruit Beer
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Serve in Flute

Draft @ Glacier. Brownish red with a small head. Aroma of raspberries, bourbon, oak and vanilla. The flavor is sweet rich malt, slightly tart raspberries, a light tanic wood and very light alcohol warming. Medium body with mild carbonation and a soft, smooth mouth feel. Really nice beer, the raspberries add quite a bit of sweetness to an already pretty sweet beer but the long rest in the wood really smooths it out. The bourbon is also at a really nice level, not overpowering but you know it’s there.

Draft. Rich amber beer with an off-white head. Raspberry and brown sugar aroma with bourbon. Raspberry and rich malt flavor with light bourbon. Medium bodied. Raspberry, rich malt, and light bourbon lingers.

Pours raspberry red / brown with no head. Full nose of raspberries and some sweet vanilla and oak. The flavor is similar, but more conflicting, with the fruit and oak battling for supremecy, along with a hop influence. Long finish of toasted almond like oak flavor.

Tasted on tap at the Bistro Barrel Aged Beer Festival on 11/15/2008. This ASA pours a medium reddish brown color. Small sized head. The aroma is raspberries and wood. A medium bodied ASA. The malts are fruity and sweet. The hops are earthy. Lots of semi-sweet raspberry, bourbon and oak flavors. Hints of chocolate as well. Very smooth tasting. Nice winter beer. Mouthfeel is full. The finish is clean and smooth and seems to last forever. The aftertaste is slightly sweet.