Tyranena Rockys Revenge Bourbon Brown

Brewed by Tyranena Brewing
Style: Brown Ale
Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA

1/6/2005
Bottle. Aroma was of nuts and bourbon. Smelled nice on the pour. Appearance is a dark brown color. It has a thin, lacy head. The palate was smooth and carbonated. Given that this is a brown ale, I think that this is the best I’ve ever had in this style. Tasted of vanilla, bourbon, roasted malt, ??? I find it really hard to pick the ingredients out on this one. They blend so nicely. Not overly complex, but well mixed.
Ar 8, Ap 3, F 9, P 3, O 16
9/10/2005
Sampled on tap at Tyranena. Pours to a clear mahogany body with a thin white head. A glowing body. The flavor is wonderful. Iced tea, oak barrels, bourbon, smooth roasted malts. American hops (think APA). Light nuttiness. The aroma is also smooth and APA-like with an iced tea and bourbon barrel touch. The palate is medium full bodied and smooth.

Aroma is a sweet malt scent with back tones of vanilla. Color is a brown amber with low carbonation and a nice tight head. Taste is wow. Starting with a medium body it goes down with a rich feel. Finish is a bold caramel, bourbon and vanilla flavor backed by a faint bitterness. This is an amazing tasting beer.

On tap at Tyranena, March 2005 and June 2006.
This rerate and proclamation generally stems from the blessed, freshly tapped batch of Rocky’s at Tyranena in June 2006. The bourbon was more prevalent in this go-around than previous bottles and draft samples that I’ve had the pleasure of drinking. Nevertheless, let’s get down to it...

Translucent caramel-mahogany in color with a slight ruby hint and a well-retained creamy grayish-white head. Aroma speaks of bourbon, rye, chocolatey caramels and bourbon-infused pecan pie (which has me thinking about a recipe for a Hop Luck dinner.) I’m absolutely loving life right now. Some caramel cola traits and a toasted hazelnut visage grace the nose on the backend. Flavor resonates with a highly palatable bourbon-oak and dusted chocolate bark motif. Caramel lures as chocolatey toffee goes in for the kill, trailing out like Jim Beam flavored cheesecake, avec chocolate & caramel ripples and an ever toasty graham cracker crust. Medium-to-fuller bodied with a supportive hazelnut trait and a nutty toffee drizzled pecans surge. Irish cream liquor gives off a perfectly balanced iced cappuccino character at times, and the carbonation is perfect on this brown ale. Toasty roastedness trails into chocolate and bourbon heaven. The mildly hopped, chocolate-nut base is never neglected and supplies a signature trademark in the finish as the palate reminisces.

This is a well-made beer. Well-balanced malt sweetness, alcohol, slight hop note and the perfect amount of flavor from the bourbon barrels. I have a 15.5 gal keg of this at my house. It is well-received by company and still a complex enough beer for me to enjoy. I’d add a slightly more pronounced malt sweetness to the beer, offsetting that with more barrel aging but they have done an excellent job without any suggestions from me.

Source:12 oz bottle.
Glass:Pint.
Appearance:Dark brown pour with a one finger tan head.
Aroma:Toasted malt, caramel, bourbon and chocolate.
Flavor:Chocolate and bourbon are heavy with caramel and toffee present.
Palate:Medium body with solid carbonation.
Overall:Excellent beer.

yummmm-oooo!!! Very good complex beer. The barrel flavors and aromas are readily apparent and aesthetically pleasing. Good brown ale characteristics enhanced by the barrel thang. Thin light head does persist along with some lace. Brownish mahoganey color. Toffee aftertaste. very good beer. Had it on draft at Bodega this evening. They have it in bottles too.

Thanks to buckybeer fot hsi vastly underrated treasure! Pours dark brown with 1-finger tan head. Huge aroma of oaky bourbon, brown sugar, caramel malt, some vinous fruit, almonds, and scotch. Tastes oaky and bourbony at first, with the mid-palate caramel malt, brown sugar, figs, almonds, and ovaltine hitting the palate. Nice hefty palate and complex flavor. Please get me some more of this!

Fair amount of vanilla in the aroma at first then picks up with some topping of roasted malts, coatings of cocoa, and notes of boubony sweetenss. Hazy murked cherrywood rusted brown with a thin platnium blonde cap that lifts off quickly. Moderate lacing in thick strings. Nice subtle taster opening with chocolate bread, soft and smooth all over, caramel gets squeezed through, light velvety roast and hazelnut adorns parts of middle and close to the finish where vanilla and boubon sweetness intertwine and fades off with amazing gradual caramel leftovers. Very slight warmth blends at the finish while the sweetness takes hold late. Quite nice. Nothing abtrusive here, very mellowing, subtle, yet actively flavorful. Medium body, creamy, smooth, partially thin in the front but picks up enough gumption during the middle and finishes well with lots of subtle sweetness and lightly blended bourbon heat. The overall smoothness makes for some very easy drinkin’. Its a darn nice brown ale with some bite. This beer helps make Tyranena a big time contender for top Wisconsin brewery in my book of ’sconny’ breweries.