I knew this day would come…..
After the better part of a year dealing/working with casks, I think I finally made a great beer. Everything seemed to work just right with this batch. The brew was a collaboration with my friend Simon, the cask was finally calming down with flavor profile, and it was January and Feb, perfect months for barrel aging in a Brooklyn apartment.
Here it goes, one of my favorite beers to date, even had a hard time bottling it up to save for aging.
Appearance: a huge thick tan head. The color is completely black with a dark brown hue
Nose: A pleasant blend of oak, vanilla, and roastiness. A full dark chocolate flavor undertone
Flavor: a smooth rise of chocolate with a complex creaminess, it all tasted kinda like a chocolate bourbon oak milkshake, but still had a brown ale taste. Just a tad sharp from carbonation. totally nice beer to drink
mouthfeel: a big but balanced beer with a complicated mouth, finishes nicely with an oak and chocolate memory
overall: yeessss. make. this. again. but….. WHAT IS THE RECIPE?! time to dig up my brew log
9.4/ 10 : best beer so far on the blog
Cool man! Good for you!
It’s so crazy how we turned this beer into two completely different beasts entirely by tweaking on the cold side. I was happy w my coffee/vanilla/oak/blending experiment, but your cask aging version took BOS…