New Glarus Unplugged Bourbon Barrel Bock

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Overall I enjoyed this beer. The palate of this particular brew I intriguing. You can easily pick out the oak taste as well as a rich vanilla. Warm and medium heavy on the tongue. Good stuff.

Very nice. You pour this one and the burbon becomes immediately apparent in the mix. Smell and flavor, nice alcohol burn too. Very complex!

12oz. bottle, with thanks to both footbalm and barleyPops! Pours a clear amber with a fluffy tan head, moderate lacing. Aroma is toffee and caramel, with oak, vanilla and bourbon coming out more as it warms. Flavor brings out some sweetness, including more toffee, oak, vanilla and mild bourbon, finishing sour and dry. I’m not sure that the BB, dopplebock style, and the sour brett really work well together on this. Not offensive, but the various components seem to sit beside each other rather than blend and compliment. Thanks again to Duane and Eric!

Bottle. Pours an amber brown with little white head. Aroma is sweet, oaky, bourbon, etoh, no hops. Flavor is quickly sweet bourbon with a potent etoh which quickly shifts to a malty, dry brett finish that leaves a dry feeling yet you still notice the bourbon mouth coating and the warming. I cant say i loved this beer however it was pretty unique.

Pours a murky dark orange color with almost no head. The aroma is all bourbon with some oak, allspice, and sticky malts. The flavor is simply not good. Tastes like a barrel-aged, flat, pumpkin beer. Not a fan whatsoever, Really disappointed.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear dark orange body with a rather small fizzy off-white head that faded rather quickly. The aroma is much more complex than I was hoping for. The interplay between the bourbon and the sweet caramel and toffee maltiness is wonderful. Once you get past that and hit the bretty and oaky undertones with nuances of vanilla and alcohol, you just want to smell this all night. A little bit of candied apple as well. The flavor is showing even greater effects from the brett. None of the sticky sweetness that I expect from a Doppelbock, more of a dry toasted caramel flavor. The bourbon nicely rests in the background, peeking it’s head out for a bit on the finish. The mingling of the brettiness and the bourbon doesn’t seem to work as well as it did in the aroma. Still, it’s quite complex and drinkable. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied and quite sturdy, slightly thick, but not sticky or cloying. Moderate fairly soft carbonation. Overall, certainly a unique offering. I like it, but I’m not so sure I could drink more than one at a sitting.

bottle. thanks bri. glowing deep amber pour with thin head. rich papery malts, vanilla, nice dried fruit and moderate bourbon aroma. full bodied. rich malts, caramel. fruits and bourbon. woody. very nice. light alcohol warming.

12oz bottle, not impressed by this style. Poured a copper trasparent color with tan head and good lacing. Smell of wood oaks, vanilla and dry figs. Roasted taste dry and flat. Hints of the following, toffee licorish, figs, vanilla, somewhat reminded me of medicine I used to take as a child. Soft palate but a hard beer to drink. Did not enjoy to much.