This is a great beer. It pours a beautiful, red velvety color and a very, syrupy, viscous body with a medium head. There’s a grape nose to this beer to be sure, but at the end of the glass, this is still a beer, much to the brewer‘s credit. Too often, barrel-aged beers taste too much like their barrel’s predecessors, to the beer’s detraction. Not this beer. Also impressive from the brewer’s standpoint is that this beer doesn’t drink like a one with an ABV of ten percent. There are notes of vanilla, raspberry and pomegranate. 21st Anniversary Ale is an unpretentious beer with interesting chemistry and one you’ll want to get a hold of while you can (which might be challenging as it was released in a limited run of 600 cases).