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Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer (Bottle)

Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer (Bottle) - English Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
65
overall
Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: English Strong Ale

Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5233.2/5.03.19/5.06.6%54.5English pint, Trappist glass
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Commercial Description:
Bottle: Pasteurised.
Brewed by Belhaven for Innis & Gunn
Ingredients: Golden Promise and crystal malt; Phoenix hops.
""""For 30 days this honey-hued beer sleeps in hand selected oak barrels, locked inside a bonded warehouse, gradually assimilating the subtle flavours that reside in the wood. Barrels are then emptied and maturation continues for a further 47 days in a marrying tun where these natural flavours infuse and fall into perfect balance. This 77-day process is unique and produces a delicious, refreshing beer: Aromas of vanilla and toffee, hints of citrus, with a malty, lightly oaked,palate. Deftly balanced and light in texture, soothing and warming in the finish.""""
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 aerosol999 (113), Quebec, Canada
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/103/57/20
Sep 18, 2006  
Aroma: Sweet vanilla, Skunk, floral hop character, diacetyl Appearance: Straw gold, tight bead that disappears quickly leaving little belgian lace. Flavour: Warming, hoppy, sweet malt and skunk, diacetyl, good bitterness Palate: Chewy, light bodied, prickly carbonation Overall: An interesting beer ruined by a poor cosmetic marketing decision. Skunk and diacetyl overwhelm the beer- the oak character is surpassed by skunk and diacetyl. As it warms the whisky character comes through, but it is fighting it’s way through the problems with this beer.


 Diogène (543), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 6, 2006    Updated: Jun 9, 2009
Bottle from LCBO. Clear copper colour with a medium white head that vanishes quickly. The aroma is earthy, with notes of cookies, caramel and wood. The aroma is similar, but with notes of vanilla and whiskey, but the whiskey is not as strong as when I first tasted it a year ago, it is milder that in my memories. Good brew.


 Retorp (2154), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/103/515/20
Sep 6, 2006  
Aroma is warm bread and sweet caramel with distracting hay notes. Body is a rich amber color and holds a lasting, two finger thick, white head. Fore is sweet malts and vanilla with ample wood and whiskey notes. It’s slightly light of body and the flavor concentration is not intense, but I liked it and I’d drink it again.


emjay (30), Markham, Ontario, Canada
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/102/59/20
Sep 6, 2006  
Bottle. Pours an orange copper color with a small head. The aroma is like sweet whisky and the only thing different about the flavor is the strong taste of wood. Yuck. While drinking this I was very thankful it was a fairly light bodied beer... a heavier beer tasting like this and I wouldn’t be able to finish it. It’s drinkable... but barely. There are just so many better beers that anybody can get for cheaper, so I’m staying away from this from now on.


 CaptainCougar (5379), Rockville, Maryland, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Sep 5, 2006  
Bottle: Pours a transparent light copper orange, with mild effervescence leaving a clingy-lacing airy white head. Aroma of sweet toasty British caramel malt has a touch of oak and butterscotch. Body starts with a nice, light sugary sweetness revealing some soft woody mellow oak before a drier toasty finish. This could be more assertive, but still has a unique flavor and is very drinkable.


 yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 4, 2006  
330ml bottle, 6.6% a/v Pours a fiery orange colour with a slightly offwhite head. The smell is intensely citrus with notes of caramel and malt. Tastes malty with a whiskey hint from the barrel it is aged in. As brewgirlca said this beer could surely use more hops to balance the malt flavour. It is definetly a fine beer though!


brewgirlca (57), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/54/103/58/20
Aug 31, 2006  
333 ml bottle. As a long time lover of fine single malt I was really looking forward to this beer. Despite some reviewers saying this tastes of whisky it does not; it is bland and sweet completely lacking in oak, smoke, or malt complexity that one would expect in a barrel aged beer. While one would not want much hop character in a whisky barrel beer there needs to be hop bitterness to carry the malt - this beer lacks that. It is unbalanced. It is easy to drink but boring and if I was not told it was an oak aged beer I would not know it to be other than a sweet Newcastlle Brown.


 Finn (1422), Tromsø, Norway
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/103/511/20
Aug 22, 2006  
Bottle 0,33l. Golden brown. A creamy lasting head leaving patterns on the glass. Some burntness in the aroma. A soft sweet flavour. You have a whisky feeling in the aftertaste. No bitterness. More peculiar than good.



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