3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Redlight. Pours hazy amber with a thin white head. Big whiskey, vanilla aroma from the barrel, along with ample amounts of citrus and pine hops. Carbonation is rather low because of the cask, so body is a little light, but lots of citrusy resiny hops and a smooth malt body come through nicely. Touches of the barrel also come through, too. This is a well done brew.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at CCB. Pours hazy orange. Nose is grainy, earthy and citrus hops. Flavor is sweet citrus, wood and malty.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
on tap at Swamp Head on 3/11/11. light orange pour with a small white head. subtle oak nose with big caramel malts. medium body with caramel, light vanilla and aged hops. slight bitter finish with a general sweetness and lingering dark fruits.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at redlight for the Swamp Head night. Aged in the Palm Ridge whiskey barrel from Florida. Pours a dark amber orange color and topped by a thin, smooth off white head of foam that leaves drippy lines of lace. The aroma is nice and straight forward with notes of sweet caramel malts, citrus and pine hops, and smooth bourbon and vanilla from the oak. The flavor follows with more of the vanilla and oak flavors to go with the sweet caramel malts and citrus and pine hop bitterness. The boubon is fairly subtle and round things out while adding a nice warming feeling on the finish. Medium bodied with subtle carbonation on the mouthfeel and a lingering bitter hop finish with some added heat from the barrel. This was a nice use of the barrel with their ipa, and an added bonus with using a Florida barrel.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ CCB for Whole Foods/CCB Cask for a Cause. Poured amber with a small egg shell head. Nose is pine, citrus, caramel, vanilla, and some spicy oak notes. Medium body with soft carbonation. Flavor is mostly sweet, lot’s of bourbon notes as well as some spicy oak notes blended with pine, grapefruit, and honey. Finishes with mild bitterness.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
draft @ redlight redlight. Aged in a Palm Ridge Florida Whiskey barrel! Vanilla oak aroma with piney hops. Pours a molasses amber, it definitely picked up some color from the charred oak barrel. Smooth oak and vanilla with molasses and caramel malts with earthy bitter hops and sweet pine resin, very smooth with a sticky hop finish lingering vanilla and a bit of heat. This beer rocks!!!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at the Whole Foods / CCB Cask Event.
pours amber, off-white head.
aroma of oak, hops, caramel malts.
flavors, this becomes a plus of their original 10-10-10 version, lots of nice rich hops. Nice woody/barrel and oak goodness, leaves a warming abv mixed with citrus hops, caramel malts finish with the added barrel goodness.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at the Whole Foods / CCB Cask Event. It pours out of a beer engine hazy copper with nice off white head. The aroma is oak and spice and boozy sweetness running into mostly pine resin and grapefruit hoppiness at the end of the draw. Overall kind of a mild aroma likely due to the type of conveyance used. The taste is sweet bourbony and spicy oak mixed with pine and resiny hoppiness. Then toward midway some sweet maltiness rises up to be heard. Those notes fade into the finish to reveal tasty resiny hop goodness. This brew attains a tasty balance between hop bitterness, hop flavor and sweet barrel aged notes.
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