Alaskan Pilot Series: Barley Wine Ale

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in Snifter

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22oz bottle. Pours a deep ruby-brown color with and off white head. Aroma is dark fruit, cherry, raisin, a little alcohol. Medium on the palate with creamy, soft carbonation. Flavor is sweet, malty, caramel, toffee, more dark fruits, a little booze, with a sweet, malty finish. I need to go buy a bit of this to age. Very tasty.

This brew pours a deep brownish-amber color with a medium foamy light beige head that diminishes slowly. Sticky rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of dark malt, overripe fruit and hops. Rich body with flavors of toasted malt, dark fruit, hops and toffee. The finish is full and malty with a lingering toasted bread and fruit aftertaste. Solid Barley Wine from start to finish.

22oz bottle. I’ve had this one fresh and aged and can say it has great aging potential beyond the year I gave it. Pours out a beautiful darker copper hue with great lacing. Big malty and hoppy aromas that I like in fresher BW’s, caramel and boozy. The palate is great and balanced, the malts are big in the finish with a ripping bitter hoppiness on the outer edge. One of the more likeable fresh BW’s on the market, but will be spectacular 5 years up the road.

2010 pilot series bottle. Pours a bronze cola color with a quick kahki soapy head that dissipates to a tiny collar. Aroma is sweet caramel malt and dark fruit and nuts. Taste is more caramel and dark fruit with a nice bitter hop finish very smooth and balanced. Palate is full sticky and slick all at the same time and finishes dry. Very nice barley wine, I will be picking this up again.

2008 VIntage shared by motortoddhead. Brilliant red-amber. Surprising that after 3 years, grapfruit and pine hops still hangin on to this one in the nose. Plenty ofdark fruit punch, crystal malts, light toasted/biscuit character. Great dried dark fruit, bread, toasted malt sweetness, and great Northwest hop bitterness. Trailing bitterness and fruit. Great stuff! Thanks again, Todd!

2009 ... Pale amber pour little orange tint off white beige head .... aroma is of caramel chewy malts faint resiny hops ... taste is resiny hops smooth chewy caramel malts, light fruit, toffee and medium bodied with a nice bitter hop finish .... abv hidden very well .... balanced and sessionable .... excellent beer big thanks to allagash frank for this one

Bottle from a trade with cbkschubert. 2008 vintage. Pours clear copper color with thin khaki head. Aromas of caramel, toffee and booze. Flavor is sweet but not cloying. Caramel and toffee with some dough. The alcohol is evident, but doesn’t seem like 10%. Thick, viscous body with minimal carbonation. Excellent! Thanks Craig.

650mL bottle poured a pale amber color with small off-white head which had good retention. Aroma was roasted malts and some floral hops with a hint of alcohol. Taste is very malty sweet with some hops coming through in the finish. A nicely done barley wine which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Heavy and rich. Rich malt flavor and aromas make this a great dessert beer. Pours a dark honey-esque color with a dense dark tan head.

bottle vintage 2009. Pours a brown color with small grey head. Aroma of smoked apples, caramel, toast, toffee, pine sap. Very smooth palate, full bodied. Flavor of caramel, root, toffee, with a touch of bleu cheese, and a hoppy, bitter finish evoking pine and resin. Very nice.