The Bruery Papier

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Old Ale
Placentia, California USA

Bottle. Ap: Nice brown-red-purple color. No head. Ar: Chocolate, dried fruit, matured cheese, butter. Fla: Vinous, fruity, alcohol and lots of woodiness.Pal: Big and smooth.

Bottle. Pours brown-red-purple, no head. Complex, big and vinouse. Chocolate, fudge, butter, dark fruits and wood.

Bottle. Dark brown, a bit reddish colour and almost no head. Smell is sweet with clear notes of bourbon barrel and dried fruits. Taste is sweet, rich and a bit alcoholic with notes of dried fruits, slightly burnt raisins and bourbon barrels. A really nice sipper.

little to no visible carbonation, small ring of a forced head. murky chestnut brown. nose is consumed with browned bananas and extremely sugared toffee scented malt. intensely sweet, incredibly sugary and cloying with zero body structure to hold up. it’s an unbelievable mess of a beer from front to back. thin, watery, saccharine sweet up front, the browned banana, clove, moldy dark fruit and green vegetal notes are enough to make me gag. the finish is extremely thin, the carbonation is disjointed, the finish is overripe fruit sugar. an awful beer throughout that epitomizes all that is wrong with american craft beer. $20 drain pour. thanks bruery!

Bottle. Pours a deep clear chestnut color, practically still small tan bubbles. Very syrupy mouthfeel, with mostly raisins and oak. Also some vanilla, bourbon, sweet heavy malt, mustiness, and brown sugar.

Bottle. Virtually no head. Body is dark brown. Aroma is lightly malty (molasses, cooked caramel), with notes of maple syrup, brown sugar, alcohol/whisky, wood. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium to fully body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation, heavily alcoholic. Boring, one-dimensional, syrupy sweet, burning. Meh.

750mL bottle, #129 / 4777. Pours a slightly oily and viscous brown color with yellow edges; headless; some weight to this beer, definitely. Loads of dense sweetness in the aroma: oozing brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, and very light barrel notes; smooth profile, no harsh bourbon notes at all, just oily and gooey and generous; little alcohol. Full, mouth-coating presence; very relaxed carbonation (not flat, but close); there’s a very creamy, gooey presence here, with (following the aroma) lots of brown sugar and maple syrup sweetness; the barrel shows through as lightly toasted wood, some sweet vanilla-tinged bourbon notes; this is, first and foremost, a hugely sweet beer, but there’s a sensibility in the barrel notes (nothing rough), a hugely hidden and buried alcohol content (nothing hot here), and just a dense, pleasant malt character that really carries this through; nice stuff. Ali and I polished off a bottle of this by ourselves, after a trip to Russian River. Lengthy finish: brown sugar, lots of well-developed malty sweetness, soft edges, maple syrup; lasting stickiness.

Gift from a friend near Fullerton. Reminds me a lot of Kuhnhenn 4th Dementia. Pours a candy amber color with a fleeting beige head. Tastes of juicy red grapes, caramel, oak, and a warming amount of alcohol. The flavor expretly seems to masque the massive ABV. Well done.