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Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Salted Caramel Porter
4pk-12oz Cans
$16.99
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*Price, vintage and availability may vary by store.
*Price, vintage and availability may vary by store.
Product Highlights
California- American Porter- 6% ABV. Aged for 6 months in Wild Turkey bourbon barrels, our Salted Caramel is woody and slightly sweet with notes of vanilla and coconut. It's smooth with a medium-light body and mouth feel and a light banana/fruit aroma.
Product Details
OVERVIEW
Subtype / Style
American Porter beers reflect American craft brewery interpretations of age-old English Porters. Anchor Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing in California – two of the original U.S. craft breweries – each made their own groundbreaking porter that helped introduce the style to contemporary American palates. Many domestic craft brewers have since followed with myriad delicious examples of “robust” and “brown” porters, while others have taken new approaches, including the use of smoked malts and brewing porters of “imperial” strength.
Smoke Porter is an American Porter sub-style that integrates smoked malt aroma, flavor and character to complement the roasty, chocolaty and caramel porter character. Hop bitterness and aroma and flavor vary across examples according to the brewer’s intent.
American Imperial Porter is emerging as a stand-alone beer style inspired by the strength of Baltic Porter, yet can deliver more roast character and amped-up hop aroma, flavor and bitterness, with ABV reaching 10 percent or more.
Other American Porter examples may incorporate coffee, vanilla, chocolate or other similarly complementary ingredients. Still more special versions are aged in used casks, such as bourbon barrels (a throwback to wooden-vat aging at English breweries), from which the beer takes on bourbon aroma and flavor for additional complexity.
Producer Story
Ken Allen started the Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in the lower level of a brewpub called the Buckhorn Saloon in Boonville, Calif., in 1987. The new brewery quickly faced rising demand for the smooth-tasting beers from its small brewhouse. In 1996, the brewery moved to a larger Boonville facility, and production grew rapidly, with the brewery producing twice the amount of beer in 1998 that it had in 1997.
With this exponential growth, Anderson Valley Brewing broke ground on a new state-of-the-art, three-story, Bavarian-style brewhouse in 1998, with 100-barrel and 86-barrel copper kettles that Allen had rescued from defunct German breweries. In August 2000, the gleaming new brewhouse went online.
In 2010, Allen sold the brewery to industry veteran Trey White, and Fal Allen, who had served as general manager from 2000 to 2004, returned to Anderson Valley Brewing as brewmaster. He has focused on innovation and quality, introducing the Bahl Hornin’ Series of draught brews, expanding the barrel-aged program and increasing brewing capacity.
Other Anderson Valley beers include Hop Ottin’ IPA, Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout, Poleeko Pale Ale, Boont ESB and Boont Amber Ale. Boont Amber is an ode to balance, with a deep copper color offset by an off-white head. Its slightly sweet malty backbone is balanced perfectly with a subtle hop bite and aroma and a wonderfully fruity yeast profile. Named “the best beer brewed in Northern California” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a beer like this is perfect with any meal and is enjoyable night after night.
Source: Anderson Valley Brewing Co.