Stoudts Barrel Aged Old Abominable

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

This has been sitting on top of my fridge for quite some time so I finally popped in to chill a couple of days ago. When opening I was greeted with a TON of carbonation. More than the most carbonated champagne I’ve seen. I had to stop pouring almost immediately as I had 1 inch of beer and the rest of the glass was a thick foamy head that took nearly 10 minutes to collapse. Aroma is not as heavy as other whiskey barrel beers I’ve head. Nice aroma of vanilla and medium toasted coconut. Fairly cloudy body, orangy amber in color. Nicely done flavor. Good balance between whiskey barrell, malts and hops, with nothing sticking out like a sore thumb. Also, body is just right with slight warmth lingering on the clean palate. Will have to keep an eye for this one again this year! (I honestly would’ve rated this higher, but because of the MAJOR head problem I can’t. Even 20 min. after opening the bottle its creating one huge head when pouring down the side of the glass).

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Big thanks to tpd975 for bringing another in a long long line of amazing brews to the weekly tasting. Pours clear copper with thin tan head. The aroma has pulses of sweet dark fruity esters moving into vanilla, oak and booze. The taste is smooth and near silky with malt and dark fruity ester sweetness followed by wood, vanilla and booze. This is just so smooth and tasty and carries a fairly full wood sensation from front to back. It seems to achieve a nice balance between barrel and barleywine notes. Upon further inspection it does lean some toward barrel rather than beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Cloudy brown, murky body with a short lived white head and spotty lacing. Caramel, bread, nuts, and some mixed fruits to coincide with a moderate to light barrel influence. Medium bodied and smooth with a warming finish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Sampled bottle, RBNAG 2007 in Grimstad, as Stoudt’s Old Abominable Barley Wine Ale, aged in a whiskey barrel. Hazy brown colour. Sweetish, malty and oaky aroma. Sweet, oaky and malty flavour, maybe too sweet.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Poured a hazy brown color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of apples, caramel malts, brown sugar, bourbon, and some piney, citrus fruits. Taste of citrus fruits, wood, more caramel malts, with light pine, and citrus, and some alcohol in the finish. Awfully similar to the non-BA version, with very light barrel presence. Little to no tannins from the wood, but it does dry out the taste at the end.