Amberine Barrel-Aged Quadruple
$39.00
Amberine Barrel-Aged Quadruple was aged for 14 months in NZ Whisky Co casks. This nut brown Belgian-style quadrupel ale has ruby highlights and an off-white head. Toffee, single malt, and a savoury red wine component greet the nose and it offers vinous and complicated deep sugar notes, Belgian yeast character, single malt whisky and light oakiness, with a lingering red-wine finish. Only 3198 bottles were produced and each one is hand-numbered.
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About This Beer
Amberine Barrel-Aged Quadruple was aged for 14 months in NZ Whisky Co casks. This nut brown Belgian ale has ruby highlights and an off-white head. Toffee, single malt, and a savoury red wine component greet the nose and it offers vinous and complicated deep sugar notes, Belgian yeast character, single malt whisky and light oakiness, with a lingering red-wine finish.
This beer will cellar gracefully for many years, but is fabulous right now. Do not serve cold! Treat it like you would a port or red wine and serve it in an elegant glass. The butterfly on the label is the New Zealand Yellow Admiral Butterfly. Only 3198 bottles were produced and each one is hand-numbered.
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Beer Details
Barrel-Aged
12% ABV
43 IBUIngredients: Water, NZ Barley, NZ Hops, Yeast.
Brewers Notes
Kereru obtained 140 unique oak barrels from the NZ Whisky Collection, a company founded around the stock of the former Wilson's Distillery in NZ. The stock was lost for many years and was then found and the whisky had aged to perfection. Some of the casks were 60 year-old American oak ex-bourbon barrels which contributed vanilla, oak and hints of maple to the whisky. Some of casks were French and American oak ex-red wine barrels from Mills Reef which contributed red wine and port notes to the whisky. The casks arrived in small lots as they were decanted of whisky, and were wet and sloshing with a bit of magical spirits still inside. Each cask can impart its whisky character into a beer only once. After that the cask can be used again, but will only offer oak barrel character. This makes all our whisky barrel-aged beers unique and never to be repeated. Each bottle is hand numbered.
Food Matching
Cheese: blue, aged gouda, sharp aged cheddar
Mains: risotto, mu-shu pork, beef Wellington, venison, lamb
Dessert: fresh figs, fruit cake, steamed pudding, chocolate brownie
