 CharlesDarwin (1376), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Jun 15, 2006
2005. 12 Oz Bottle. Pour of henna-tinged golden orange, with a rim of off-white and light carbonation. Aroma of distant malt, some sweet orange lemon degreaser and fragrant oyster mushrooms. Subdued. Flavor is a calm deep malt of mussels and ground mustard. A tinge spicy and rich. Not much, if any real complexity or depth. Just an alcohol tinging malt and sweet candied apple sugars. Smacks full of toasted almonds and light breading, but I’m still really reaching for anything to say about this beer. It strikes me as the budweiser of american barleywines, seriously. Standard, just plain malt flavor, with a decent hop balance. I can’t get anywhere with this beer, so it loses. It does show some high levels of sweet floral spice, but it maintains muddiness and really never emerges as a distinct character. Palate is fairly full.
The_Epeeist (918), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 14, 2008 12 oz bottle, born 2006. Clear garnet brown with some beige bubbles. Nose is caramel with herbal notes of sage and mint. Almost medium body, oily, with an odd sour tang. Taste is watery toffee and lemon that turns nasty with formaldehyde and bitter greens. I had a fresh one and don’t remember the harsh aftertaste. Bad ager or bad bottle?
Flyer (104), Hartland, Wisconsin, USA
Aug 12, 2008 Color is caramel-orange with a quickly diminishing head. Aroma is generic-ale fruity with some peach and cherry. The flavor has some nice maltiness and toasty biscuit, very smooth, not very intense for a barleywine. Finishes with some pine-resin hoppiness. Not a typical barley wine, in some good ways, some not so good ways.
pumpmaster (265), Florida, USA
Aug 10, 2008 12 ounce bottle purchased at Big C Liquors in Orlando, FL for $2.50 Very good.
DrDavid (117), , Vermont, USA
Aug 8, 2008 (Bottle). Sweet fruit aroma. Deep copper color with almost no head. Flavor is fruity, sweet, with an alcohol finish. Sprightly, but not particularly complex. Perhaps the 2007 I had would have benefited from more aging.
kmeves (997), Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, USA
Aug 7, 2008 Pours a clear orange with a minimal head. The aroma is medium sweet, big caramel malt and a bit medicinal. Flavor is very malty and fruity with a noticable alcohol finish. Rich texture, medium bodied.
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