Great Divide Barrel Aged Claymore

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

On tap at Jonesys (Denver, CO). Pours a dark almost cola brown with mahogany highlights and a tan head. Aroma is sweet and earthy with notes of bourbon, vanilla, oak, peat, some toffee and caramel. Flavor is also sweet and earthy with notes of chocolate, caramel, bourbon, wood, vanilla, light raisin notes. Medium body with a lightly boozey finish.

9/25/09 notes: on tap, brewery. A special release, I believe. Poured into a snifter, dark red-black with almost no head. Aroma is a rich array of peat, malt, and vinegary notes. Flavor is full, with cherry and grape skin complementing and playing against the smooth dark chocolate, wood and caramel. Overall, a darker, bolder version of Claymore.

Draft at RateBeer party at GD on Friday of GABF. Nose was oak, toffee, vanilla, and light underlying tartness. dark brown with a mediu beige head. Flavor was lightly funky, slightly tart with some dark fruitiness.

Pours a smokey burgandy, lacey bubbles atop. Nose was quite interesting...malty, smokey, and toffeeish but with underlying sourness and vinious. Malty flavors in the toffee realm with woody sourness, dark grape, with some sweetness...reminscent of dimetab. Not too shabby though, really.

strong barrel notes. over the top, but it works. the sweet caramel really comes out, toffee, vanilla, shit ton of whiskey barrel, some marshmallow notes in the finish. . was pleasantly surprised by this, smelled like a barrel bomb, but this worked. tastes hotter than it is at first, then mellows as this warms. by the end of the 2nd or 3rd glass so did i. hopefully more of this will be around next time. 4 6 7 5 15

On tap at Great Divide poured a clear dark brown with a small lingering tan head. Aromas of whiskey, oak, toffee, toasted malt, vanilla and light fruittiness. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of whiskey, oak, vanilla, toffee, light fruittiness and light carmel with a smooth lingering whiskey finish.