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Valley Brew Decadence 12 Cuvee Speciale

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704.14/5.04.03/5.0Special13%95Trappist glass
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A barrel aged version of our Decadence 12 Abbey style Quadrupple. We acquired a 56 year old Brandy Barrel from our most excellent friend Brian at Gallo. This oaken beast is the primo da primo of barrels. Cuvee has been aged for 1 year in the barrel. Winner of the First Place Gold Medal 2008 California State Fair commercial craft brew competition and Bronze medal at the 2007 Bistro Barrel Festival.
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 Papsoe (14791), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Aug 15, 2009  
Growler. Hazy amber golden with a small off-white head. Intense aroma of caramel and wood. Very full body, a little low in carbonation, intense caramel flavours, sweet notes of liqueur and wood. sweet finish, no bittering notes at all. 110709


 Nuffield (2720), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Jul 31, 2009  
I didn’t care for this as much as some. It was too sweet for me (an odd reaction for me) and I didn’t get the uniqueness of the story from this barrel. Growler shared at RBSG 2009 grand tasting.


 bu11zeye (5433), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 16, 2009  
(Growler, courtesy of KrausenJockey) Pours a hazy golden amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of raisins, figs, apple, candi sugar, and caramel. Flavor of caramel, toffee, raisins, vanilla, and brown sugar. Keep these Valley gems coming!


 illidurit (870), Santa Cruz, California, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Jul 14, 2009  
RBSG09 growler at the grand tasting. Pours dark amber gold with a tan head. Huge estery nose, raisins, stone fruit, apples, caramel. Yeast and toffee sweetness in the flavor with a slightly tart fruity brandy note and a woody earthy finish. This definitely stands up to the barrel aging, enough to make a pretty nicely balanced and tasty beer, though a bit too sweet.


 ajm (912), Los Angeles, California, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/510/105/520/20
Jul 13, 2009    Updated: Sep 18, 2009
From a growler at the GT 2009 - big thanks to Steve the Brewer! Nose is light fruit and malt - this and the odd orange color were not what I was expecting from a quad. Then some nonsense happened: I tasted it. Big fruit notes and that sharp flour taste of Rochefort 10 gave way to a prickling, fruity (quince, orange zest) alcohol from the brandy barrel. Finish was long and gorgeous. I don’t think I’ve had a subtle quad before, but this was genius in its crafting and a treat to taste. What an 800!


 Ungstrup (15004), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jun 13, 2009  
From growler. A hazy golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as light notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with primary notes of malt and alcohol, leading to a lightly alcoholic finish.


 Dickinsonbeer (3448), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
May 3, 2009  
Pre-BCTC-08 Campout. Thanks to Frumpty for sharing these. Pours a deep amber with a woody almost ruby highlight and a nice head. Aroma is pretty big with the fruity complex esters, figs, raisin, and some apple hints, with a lot of big toasty sweet malts, caramel, toffee, earthy, phenolic and light plastic- with some other complex sugars- turbinado, and a lot of barrel toffee sweetness, brandy, old wood and some earthy dirt. Flavor is a bit of vanilla but it is covered up by the loads of good big malts, and fruits, brown sugar more caramel and molasses with some light toned down bourbon notes. Pretty smooth overall.


 jarspag (593), Los Angeles, California, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Jan 18, 2009  
Thanks to AgentSteve... Soft, sexy malts really take in all the goodness of the barrel here... sweet booziness, soft mouthfeel, smooth, mellow, ripe fruits, other sweets - i like this kind of sweet ... fuckin A!!!!



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