Independence Brewing Jasperilla Old Ale

Brewed by Independence Brewing Co.
Style: Old Ale
Austin, Texas USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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2006 bomber. Pour is a ruby brown with an off white head. Aromas of sweet candied fruit, plums, caramel, and a slight boozy note. Flavor is well rounded and damn smooth. Dark fruits, candy, rasins, and caramel are all present here. Nice brew here!

Bottle) Pour is amber with a thin cream head..Nose is caramel, toffee, bready, grains..Taste is raisin, caramel, bready, toffee, spice, plum..Palate is caramel.. Alcohol is pretty well hidden here

2011 bottle. Pours cloudy copper gold with a small creamy white head leaving sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is bready malt and floral hop. Medium mouthfeel with a dry hop and caramel malt with light dry finish. A good old ale from Independence.

2011 bottle thanks to errl. Amber with a ring of cream head. Nose is caramel, toffee, thick malts, dough, and sweet. Chewy palate, thick toffee notes, caramel, and dough, with a sticky finish.

NIce amber-orange color with soft white head. Lightly sweet malt aroma. Medium bodied, malty strength and sweet, light on the hops. A nice stock ale.

2010 bomber c/o Santa. Pours slightly hazy bright orange and red with a 2-finger meringue-like orange/tan head. Nice lacing and legs. Aromas of sweet malt, raisin, toffee, caramel, dates, and prune, with some cocoa notes. The flavor is raisin, some cocoa and sugar, and vanilla and marshmallow. Light chocolate and slightly bitter mocha. Medium carbonation and medium/full body, slightly warming. Nice stuff. Thanks man! [916]

Bottle pours light amber with a medium to thin tan head. Aroma is toffee, caramel and toast. Flavor is very sweet toffee, biscuit malt flavors ending with slight booze.

2006 bottle. Clear amber color/ tan head. Nutty, sherry oxidation, glazed and toasted caramel aromas. Medium bodied with soft co2. Sweet n’ dry sherry, spicy caramel, nutty flavors--nice old brew

6/26/2009 Received in trade from TexIndy and RickSawyer thanks for the opportunity to try this brew. I actually had one bottle of this break in a shelving incident so I’m glad I had multiple bottles. This review is the 2007 Vintage and it has been in my cellar for about a year. Pours a clear medium to dark copper color with a good sized bubbly off white head that sticks around for a while. Aromas of caramel and light citrus come to the forefront. Slight alcohol and a twinge of biscuit round things out. Smells decent, but smells malty sweet, very little hop on the nose. The taste is sweet caramel and a light fruitiness. Its really malty sweet almost to the point of cloying. There’s a strange twang in the background that I can’t quite identify its almost metallic or phenolic luckily it doesn’t stick around long enough to ruin this completely. Slight alcohol burn in the finish. Carbonation is medium, mouthfeel is sticky, body is medium to thick. This one has some issues. It could be my fault for sitting on this bottle for 2 years, but as is this isn’t that good. Its heavy on the malt without enough hops to balance the sweetness. That strange taste doesn’t help much either. I’d love to give a fresh bottle a try.

2010 vintage. Bright, clear, amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of nuts, caramel, alcohol and raisins. The taste is very malty with a pronounced alcohol presence and a nice, mild sweetness. Medium-full bodied with soft carbonation and some alcohol sting/numbness. One of the most obvious alcohol characters of any sub-10% beer that I’ve had. It’s decent, and would make a fine winter warmer. It just isn’t deep in the right places.

2009 bottle: Pours a caramel brown with a thin, quickly dissipating, white foam. The aroma is of toffee, milk chocolate and booze. Mouthfeel is rather thin with alcohol and toffee dominatingthe flavor. Thanks KAggie!