Bucket of Bolts

Name: Bucket of Bolts
Brand: River North Brewery
Rating: 3.99 (121 reviews)

River North Brewery

Denver, CO

Tavour Rating

3.99

Style

Barleywine - English

ABV

12.2%

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About This Beer

When River North first entered the Best of Craft Beer Awards in 2015, they completely swept up! This powerhouse team won medals for 5 different styles of beer AND Brewery of the Year — solidifying that this Colorado crew can brew up anything they put their minds to. Including a traditional English Barleywine, like Bucket of Bolts 2022.

Tasting Notes

Buckets of Bolts (2022) starts strong and malt-forward, with a subtly sweet brown sugar and caramel backbone that balances the Ale’s strong 11.3% ABV. Let it sit, and lingering notes of scrumptious cinnamon, earthy pepper, and clove tingle the senses, adding rich nuance to the malts.

Malty Rich Strong

Reviews

3.99

121 Ratings

AmericanAres87

4.25

Delicious barleywine. Light fruit, lots of great depth and layers of flavor. The booziness is very faint for its ABV. Glad I bought two bottles.

tyler723

4.0

River North is pretty solid!

william4398

5.0

Great flavor. Thick and easy to drink. One of the best beers I’ve ever had.

BuenoTheWhite

3.75

Tastes like barley wine.

joshmergl

4.0

Gimme allllll the bwizzle

kevin7059

4.0

This is what I want in a barley wine. Rich, malty,with a little booziness. Quite drinkable.

Apple__Blossom

2.75

Watery raisins.

matt7242

4.25

Super solid barleywine, just the right amount of hop bitterness, well balanced malts... AND hides the ABV well. Well done River North! p.s. this comes across closer to an American Barleywine, imo.

zach2412

3.5

I love barley wines, so I still enjoyed this but honestly it was one of my least favorite in recent memory. Starts off with the characteristic warmth of a barley wine but quickly drops off to an uninteresting mild bitter aftertaste

arod

2.75

Slight metal taste. Not great. Gonna age my bottle for 18 months

ryan9734

4.0

Hint of caramel goes well with the malt heaviness of the beer.

barroom_zero

3.0

should have aged it

kevin7010

4.0

Very smooth. Great taste. Pleasantly surprised. A must try.

corey872

3.0

not my favorite bw

Bino315

2.5

was not enjoyable

inthenameofbeer

4.25

Light in flavor and nose upfront but packs tons on the finish with a lingering coffee toffee caramel hop finish. Need BA of this fosho. Nice boozy cloud over everything.

myoungil

2.5

good

JAK408

4.25

Solid English style barleywine. Nice caramel malty sweetness.

papaouitek

4.0

Taste a bit flatter than it’s BA cousin - little less sweet and boozy

richavery80

3.5

Nice balance of boozyness, hoppyness, and subtle sweet malt. This beer is pretty easy drinking but sneaky strong. I would definitely recommend trying this beer if you can find it.

Mattd5454

3.0

Not that great.

ginger_hax

4.25

Sweet, caramel, vanilla, oak, toffee

mathieux68

4.0

Bucket of bolts is an appropriate name for this beer. Definitely doesn’t act like a barleywine. More like a Belgian Dubbel to me until it warms a bit, and then the barleywine emerges. Malty, sweet and smooth. Nice!

LMcMasters

4.0

Tad light bodied but has a flavorful fig and brown sugar profile

chris12063

4.0

Malt is a bit like whiskey

dennis1414

3.75

thought I'd bought the barrel aged version.but no. decent, bit thin in body but good flavor

Levenrah

3.75

a much lighter barelywine than expected. more in the wheatwine realm for me. good but missing the depth and character i was hoping for.

NCChris

3.0

Very malty. Not like a traditional English style barleywine.