Tyranena Devil Over A Barrel

Formerly brewed at Tyranena Brewing
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of pepsican/iowaherkey. Pours a dark brown - almost black - with a warm reddish hue and a light brown head. Very burned coffee aroma. Medium body, hard roasted malt, coffee, ashes, sweet vanilla and bourbon. Some malt bitterness in the finish. 290509

From bottle, blind #32. Poursdark brown to black with a small tan head. Dense coffee and roasted malt aroma. Slight herbal. Dry and sweet crisp flavoured with a distinct coffee flavour. Light herbal to spiced note aswell. Bitter and roasted coffee finish.

Bottle 12.fl.oz. @ home.
[ Trade by tertons ]. Clear dark black color with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, coffee beans, coffee dusty, oak, peat. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy - oily, carbonation is soft and smooth. [20081220]

Bottle #32 at Papsø’s blindtasting. Dark brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of freash grinded coffee and coffee with notes of chocolate. Roasted flavour of chocolate, coffee and freshgrinded coffee. Dry roasted finish.

Name: Devil Over a Barrel
Date: May 31, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog Four-O
Appearance: black, fine tan head, streaks of lace
Aroma: big roasted and coffee aroma with dark chocolate, touch of dark caramel sweetness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich chocolate and coffee flavor, nice dark caramel and bourbon sweetness brings out the chocolate to be balanced with the coffee, well balanced bitterness

Name: Devil Over a Barrel
Date: June 26, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: trade
sweet bourbon flavor grows as it warms but the creamy coffee and chocolate stay well balanced for the best cup of coffee ever,

Name: Devil Over a Barrel
Date: December 05, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
sweet chocolate and bourbon is very well balanced and integrated with the coffee,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: ***+/4

Very dark brown. Smells like chocolate covered coffee beans. You know what, I’ve got no issue with that. Full body. Sick coffee, chocolate, light vanilla character. Hugely dessert-like. They should turn this into an ice cream. I love a beer that gives me a visceral reaction like this.

Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Black color; small creamy head. Strong roasted malt aroma, but also plastic, dry wood, ashes, liquorice. Smooth mouthfeel, vanilla in the front, roasted malt, coffee. Good roasted malt flavor, sweetish but not too much, corrected by the vanilla. Balanced. A bit chaotic but pleasant.

Dark brown with red glimts and a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with loads of coffee, dark chocolate, bourbon and hard roasted malt. Sweet flavour with hard roasted malt, dark bitter chocolate, espresso and bourbon. Finished with warming alcohol.