UPDATED: JUL 30, 2021 Pours hazy dark mahogany with a thin, light tan head. Aroma is toffee, dried fruit and roast. Taste is toffee and raisin, moving to roast and light hops. Finish is toffee, raisin and butter roast.

12oz bottle in 2012. Clear, deep amber with a dense offwhite head. Huge aroma of resinous hops, dried fruit, booze soaked cherries, pine, oak and orange peal. Great mix of bitter hops, smooth alcohol and syrupy fruit flavours. Not a subtle beer, but a bloody good American barley wine.

UPDATED: APR 5, 2019 12 oz bottle, pours orange brown clear with off white head. Full body, aroma of fruit and malt. Dark fruit and molasses taste with sweet malt finish.

UPDATED: JUL 20, 2018 Reddish amber ale with nose of fruits and malts. Taste is sweet and slight fruity unexpected light acidous. Palate sweet and slight alcohol bitterness.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear brown with full head. Aromas of candi sugar, dry caramel, raisins, and bready malts. Flavors of same with additional herbal woody hops. A really nice barley wine.

12 ounce bottle. Cloudy brown color. Large, dense beige head. Big sweet toasted malt nose has boozy notes. Rich, tangy, toasted malt flavor. Intensely bittersweet caramel notes. Full bodied and flavorful. Wow.

Brown bottle, 12 ounces, savoured on April 22 2017; eye: maroon, hazy, ring of beige head, slight lacing; nose: basement, malt, caramel; mouth: basement, malt, caramel, acidity, oxidation, alcohol, alcohol warmth, finale in acidity with presence of malt, medium-full body, below-average carbonation, lightly bitter, lightly sweet, lightly alcoholic texture; overall: once is enough

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Bouteille brune, 12 onces, savourée le 22 avril 2017; œil : marron, trouble, anneau de mousse beige, très légère dentelle; nez : cave, malt, caramel; bouche : cave, malt, caramel, acidité, oxydation, alcool, chaleur d’alcool, finale en acidité avec présence de malt, corps moyen-corsé, carbonatation sous la moyenne, légèrement amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : une fois, c’est assez

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From Jan 2007 The XIII Anniversary Edition: Poured from the 12oz bottle(bottled 11/09/06) a clear deep amber bordering on brown with a large head of foam that quickly shrank to a fine layer with some lacing. The smell has strong notes of malt with a good side note of fruitness.(dark fruit) The taste has an abundance of semi sweet malt and a touch of plum up front that after a few sips, seems to calm down a bit. Don't do that! I also get a touch of grain in the flavour as well with some sourness that is most evident in the finish. Weird tasting BWSA that, maybe, could use some aging to refine the flavours because the overall impression I'm getting is that it's a bit rough on the palate. A few more sips in and the malt makes somewhat of a comeback and its renewed presence is most welcome. Yep. I can see some real potential in this brew so if I happen to get more samples, they're going in my "cellar" for sure. Also, for being almost 10%abv, to me, the alcohol is hidden pretty well. I'm down to the last 3rd of my glass and the flavours seem to be more balanced and I'm finding it to be a smooth drinker. I *was* going to put a lower score on the drinkability factor but now, it's changing my mind completely. It's funny how a first sip impression can change so much after further tasting but that happens a lot with many brews....;^) Bottom line: I like this sample from Uinta and I can only hope that they continue to push the envelope. Well done! Thanks to Wasatch for giving me the chance to tastea BWSA from his great state of Utah! Edit: XIV Edition, bottled 12/12/2007, tasted 04/17/2010. A deep clear dark amber pour with a small but looks like stubborn head of offwhite foam. Lacing? You betchya. Score 4.0 Lots of aromas going on; caramel malt, lots of dark fruits with plums sticking out the most, some alcohol. Score 4.5 The taste goes along the lines of the smell with the caramel malt about as good as it can get. The dark fruit nose doesn't shine as well in the taste but is there. Some kind of bitterness on the back end, mainly pine, that grows during the session validating the fact that this is an American Barleywine. Also some alcohol but to a lesser degree than fresher samples of any year I've had. Score 4.0 It's on the low end of medium bodied with lightish carbonation. Score 3.5 Drinkability? A nice sipper of the style. Not *as* drinkable as some of the other BWs I've tried but still good. Score 4.0 XVI, bottled Feb 20, 2009. Deep and dark red colour, close to 2 fingers head of foam. Smell is all fruity and chock full of caramel malt. Very light bitterness. The taste is pretty much superb! Caramel maltiness, toffee, some fruitiness, a light but balancing bitterness. Wow, is this good. The alcohol is there but doesn't interfere with drinking. I reckon this ould be the best of the batches. Without changing any of my scores, I'd say it's an A beer for sure and definitely one that benefits from cellaring.

Bottle. Clear ruby red beer with a large beige head. Aroma is malty with notes of caramel, raisins, bread, prunes, dates and herbs. Flavor is malty with notes of caramel, herbs, prunes, dates, herbs and spices. Well balanced.