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Eagle Bay/Mane Liquor/Whippersnapper – Black Vanilla

admin — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:31:55 +0000

Eagle Bay/Mane Liquor/Whippersnapper – Black Vanilla Whiskey Barrel Aged Vanilla Coconut Imperial Porter, 2017, 9.5%ABV, 640ml bottle

A colab between Eagle Bay Brewing, Mane Liquor Store and Whippersnapper Distillery. Bottled on 15/7/17

Drank on 18/12/17 from Copper & Oak

Appearance: 2.5 – Black, viscous, a nice big thick brown head that gives nice lacing.

Smell/Aroma: 3 – Coffee, vanilla, rich but sweet, syrupy alcohols, port wine, some cocoa.

Taste: 4 – Coffee, very big on the coffee, dark maltyness, rich malt, dark malt and coffee bitterness,. There is a transition from the richness, the dark malts into is a nice balanced hoppy bitterness that then blends very nicely into the slight Whiskey after-notes and a dry oak red wine character. No coconut I could detect. Possibly vanilla.

Mouthfeel/Palate: 3 – This is rounded, big, and finishes quite dry. Big rich, not viscous but the combined bitterness characters and the oaky dryness definitely sticks around.

Overall: 3.5 – This is good, a nice big slow sipper. There is no coconut, not really any vanilla, but thats probably the 5 months its sat in unknown condition. This is very nice, regardless.

UPDATE 21/12/17 – I recapped this bottle (with a proper bottle capper, and then fridged) after drinking slightly less than half. Going back to it now, I’m smelling dry fruits, port wine, fig, rich fruit cake, red wine barrel. On tasting its less carbonated obviously, but theres a big oak dryness initially, some hop bitterness, then a rich dry fruit, a dry red wine, slightly tart, some almost port character and then into an big oak bitterness and some alcohol. Not as much hop bitterness. Not too bad but obviously not in the best state.

Eagle Bay, Mane Liquor, Whippersnapper

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Beers 4/3/17

admin — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:32:19 +0000

La Sirene – Saison. Nice very funky smell on opening, cloudy, theres a fair bit of yeast floating around in this, its bottle conditioned. Lemony on the first sip, then a yeasty spice typical of a Saison. Kinda dry finish, a little wine-like. The nice lemony taste grows. This is good.

Brasserie de Saint-Sylvestre – 3 Monts Bière de Flandre. Ok, this is a Bière de Garde (“beer for keeping”), its clear, looks like a lager, smells like a lager, its not a lager and its 8.5%. I have no idea about the age of this bottle or the condition its been kept in (was in a fridge when I purchased it) . There is a light malt flavour in there, a little woodyness (looks like this was fermented in wood barrels from online notes?) and some wine, though its rather obscured by the alcohol taste and the yeast until it warms up. This does need to warm up to show more than the alcohol/yeast. The yeast has a saison character, peppery etc. Its not a bad beer, but seems like a Saison with too much alcohol present and less carbonation and anything else is rather hidden, probably not kept well?. One glass is more than enough.

Oscar Blues – Ten Fidy. Imperial Stout. My god this is a dense and thick as hell head, it is dark brown as hell. 10.5% and malty, burnt, dark malt, burnt sugar, all kinds of dark, rich, thick, viscous. I dont get any coffee, or molasses, just malt. There is a hoppyness in there, you can kinda sense it, 98IBU. This is good. Damn good.

Boston Brewing – Nut Brown Ale. Ok, I drank this the other day, but didn’t review at the time and for some reason thought it was worth getting again to do so…must have been the next beer I’m about to drink, but this is good, this is not bad and no hate. This is a nut brown ale, simple and this does it. Its got good malt, a nice mineral character, the hops are subdued…its good. This is good, worth drinking again regardless.

Fox Hat Brewing – Phat Mongrel. A Oatmeal Stout. Ok as I said above/below I got a few beers I didnt review and maybe this was the one I wanted to. This is nice, its good, its almost viscous enough to say oatmeal, but yeah its also OK. roasty, very easy. Lovely malt smell, cant detect hops unless its in the aftertaste. This isnt bad, its good, but no stand out.

Beer – 6/5/16

admin — Fri, 06 May 2016 10:45:15 +0000

Cabbages & Kings, Imperial Oyster and Horopito Stout. 12% 650ml.

This is intense, the alcohol is very apparent, the mouthfeel is viscous and rich, the taste is intense dark malt, dark chocolate, and a hint of smoke, peppery – Horopito is a native NZ pepper plant -, a little briny.

A review I made later in the night:

It was very damn good, a sipper, very intense, viscous, rich, peppery, a bit smokey and briny. I drank it over about 2 and a bit hours. 650ml. Only thing similar I have had has been barleywines. This was also about a year old – June 2015 i think was the last batch made – so had aged a bit and rounded out, which is a good thing, even preferable, for any dark strong style beer, which are, obviously, more malt forward.