The Kernel India Pale Ale Double SCCANS (Whisky Barrel)

Brewed by The Kernel
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
London, England

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Poured golden yellow, with a small white head. Hoppy aroma with hints of herbs, caramel, whiskey, earth, orange peel, perhaps a bit of vanilla. Bitter, piney taste in a medium body and plenty of carbonation. Alcohol is definitely there. Unusual, but a good one.

@BBF12. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is malt, citrus, whiskey notes and oak. Flavour is caramel, whiskey, fruit, oak, vanilla dn alcohol.

On tap @ Borefts 2012. This is a blurry golden-honey colored one with a small quickly fading off-white head. It’s a bit anonymous on the aroma at first, but I get a faint peach-fruity thing with some soft citrus nuances and hints of green grapes. Nice but subtle for this kind of beer. Nice flavors! Really fruity and different. Light astringent and mouthdrying in the finish. I also get a hint of vanilla, pepper corns and wood. An experiment that took the correct direction in my opinion. 28.09.2012

Bottle from the brewery. Pours a near clear deep amber orange with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has a bitter pine note with swee grains and a whiskey backing. Flavor has a bit of resinous pine with a sweet grain and a musty whiskey note that grows.

Sample at Borefts Beer Festival 2012. Pours a hazy and golden beer with a white head. The aroma is malt and hops with grass, dirt and wood. The flavor follows the nose with additional alcohol. The palate is bitterness with alcoholwarmth. Overall a good beer.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2013 29th September 2012
Borefts Beer Festival IV. Day 2. Hazy amber beer, small white head. A little malt cream. Mild vanilla wood. Mellow sweet whisky and mild citrus and marmalade hops. A trace of pineapple cube sweets in the head. Semi dry finish. Lovely mellow BA DIPA. One of the highlights of the festival and I finished my tokens on several of these.

Bottle from the brewery BADSCCANS Galaxy dry hop version. Hazy deep gold lasting white head. Lots of tangerine on the aroma, some hop some from the whisky. Now there aren’t too many barrel aged double ipas I like. But this one really is quite good. Intense caramel toffee tangerine. Really rather lovely. Some alcohol heat on finish. To be honest its pretty damn good.

Draught @ 4th Borefts Beer Festival 2012, Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands.

Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus, wood, light peat - whisky. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120928]

Wow. Big sweet nose (candy, dried fruit, faint floral notes) followed by lots of hop aroma (mainly citric - marmalade, grapefruit, pith - but also resin, wood, a bit of leather) balanced by a nice sweet body (again dried fruit - think dried fruit mix - and some candy) and with hints of the whisky barrel. The barrel-aging becomes more evident as you drink and the beer warms up, you get more vanilla/caramel-type whisky-notes). Magnificent; one of Kernel’s best.

This is one of the best beers the "Kernel" has produced. For me it’s up there with his Citra and Imperial Brown Stout. The only reason I can’t give it a perfect score is because the IBS is getting the same whisky treatment and I am confident it is going to be the best beer I have ever tasted. This has the perfect balance of sweetness and bitterness and a lovely warmth coming from the whisky. And it’s not too rich in taste so it goes past being a beer anymore. Bravo!