Bush Pilot Stormy Monday
Bush Pilot Stormy Monday
Rated 3.486 by BeerPals
Brewed by Bush Pilot Brewing Company
Hastings Highlands, Ontario, Canada
Style: English Barleywine
11% Alcohol by Volume
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We started with a clear mission that our first beer had to be a drink that we ourselves would want to seek out and enjoy. See, we are a bit spoiled - an almost decade long background in craft beer importation blessed us with access to some very fine and unique beers. Therefore, when we decided to embark on this long and turbulent journey we knew we had to create something very different. Needless to say though, we had a few Stormy Mondays along the way... With the help of our experienced mentors and collaborators, we managed to pass through some nasty looking clouds. Our Stormy Monday is a spiced barley wine aged in Calvados barrels. Legendary Danish craft brewer Anders Kissmeyer (of Nørrebro Bryghus fame) created the recipe and supervised the brewing/aging process. We prepared a huge cargo of spices consisting of star anise, bitter orange peel, cocoa, cinnamon, dried fruit (quince, apple, dates, raisins, figs), real vanilla beans, cardamom, juniper berries and the list goes on and on... We also used pure maple syrup from our long time supplier and friend Frank Higgins of Combermere, Ontario. It is fair to say we logged quite a few hours sourcing some of these ingredients all over the world. The resulting beer was aged for over seven months in Calvados barrels sourced from Domaine Dupont, Normandy, France. A second, non-barrel aged batch was brewed in order to create a rather harmonious presence of oak and Calvados notes. At the end, we settled for the 60:40 blend (barrel vs. non-barrel batches). Special thanks go to our collaborators Jon Downing, Sam Corbeil, John Romano, Ryan Morrow, Matthew Howell and everyone at Niagara College Teaching Brewery and Nickel Brook Brewery. Hope you enjoy your glass of Stormy Monday.
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| Overall Rank | 3450 |
| Overall Percentile | 93.8 |
| Style Rank | 79 of 467 |
| Style Percentile | 83.1 |
| Lowest Score | 3.3 |
| Highest Score | 4.1 |
| Average Score | 3.850 |
| Weighted Score | 3.486 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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4 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
Starts off badly with the cap being to soft, so not popping up nicely. Thankfully smells great. The apples from the Calvados are quite present here with some nice spices. Hazy amber-brown colour with a foamy beige head, good retention and some nice creamy lacing, all-around and topping the brew. Dark fruits (raisin, fig) taste with some light chocolate malts, spices, alcohol and with some nice bitterness in the finish. No burning though, with a smooth mouthfeel, slightly oily and medium-bodied. Lots going on here making this one quite interesting... and good. The aging in Calvados berrels is a very nice addition.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8
Pours a small coating of frothy head and has a murky dark brown appearance, with some ruby highlights. Aromas of caramel, nutty malts, cocoa, coffee and spices. Flavours are most dry fruit types, like raisins, figs and plums. Some notes of caramel, resin and spice hops. Some very light hints of maple. Alcohol is fairly noticeable. So many flavours going on here, some ingredients hard to distinguish. Molasses in the finish. Puckering and warming sensation. Really good barleywine that doesn't try to hide its high abv. Extremely flavourful! Its only downfall may be the price tag.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
750ml bottle
11.0% ABV
Queen's Quay LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
June 15, 2013
The beer pours a murky copper colour with a 1" creamy tan head that lasts. The aroma is spices, alcohol, sweet malt, candy sugar, and dark fruits. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with average carbonation. The flavour is all over the place, there are peaty notes, molasses notes, gingerbread notes, fruity notes, and alcohol notes. Liquid Christmas Cake. It's just not for me. -
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8
750ml bottle – Pours a dark opaque brown colored ale in the snifter, when held to light this is a beautiful hazed ruby color. 2 finger tight-pored tan cap which lasts and laces (a rarity in barley wines) – big proteins in this brown big brown ale. The operative word for delineating this beer’s character is – “complex and layered”.—the aroma is rich – spice, dark fruit, succulent fruit, herbaceous tones, layered malt aromas – amazing – overkill? The flavour tells the tale – from the front side to the middle to the finish this ale is complex. The palate is assaulted with a host of flavours from piquant to subtle – spices, fruits, malts, herbs, wood, hops and various impressions caused by these amalgams – some new aroma or taste emerges as the brew warms – this holds great promise for what cellaring will do to this brew. This is barley wine meets spiced ale meets barrel aging. Wonderful first offering for this brewing company – they will be the one to watch. I think those who panned this ale either don’t understand the barley wine genre or are not tasting what’s there.
