Magic Rock Brewing
10.5% abv
Here is a video that is rather special for a number of reasons. This was the first chance to drink Magic Rock’s brand new Bourbon Barrel Bearded Lady in the UK. Their wonderful Imperial stout matured in a single use (I think that’s right?) Bourbon Barrel for 6 months.
For this video review I was joined by an old friend from the UK beer blogging scene, Baron Orm from The Ormskirk Baron blog.
Bearded Lady is a wonderful beer and click here to read my review of that. As for the difference between that and this barrel-aged version I think it added a wonderful smoothness of luxurious vanilla, very easy drinking for it’s lofty abv, sweet caramel, cinder toffee and a very pleasant amount of bourbon. I think this is a perfect example of how a barrel-aged beer should be, you could taste the influence of the spirit barrel but isn’t overwhelmed by it.
I absolutely loved it!
Thanks for the great review boys, really pleased you enjoyed the beer. I’m currently trying to source some more casks for more beers but it’s proving surprisingly difficult!