Aldergrove Auld Persnickety Barleywine Ale

Brewed by Steffans Aldergrove Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Marysville, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter

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Many thanks to skyview for sharing. Nice malty nose with strong hops as I’d expect in a young barley wine. Very sweet with a dry, raisin flavor. Golden color with faint head.

Tasting at Papsø
Cloudy amber color; small creamy head. Light caramel and phenol aroma, very light cereals. The flavor is better, substantially sweet, with good malt, mature, caramel, lightly oxidized feeling, and potent hopping. The final is less long than most American Barley Wines. Being well built and sweet, it’s a good Barley Wine, though not very complex.

Bottle 12fl.oz.
Unclear medium amber orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, light to moderate yeasty, leather - wood, earthy honey, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20100410]

Cloudy amber with a medium off white head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. Sweet flavour with toasted malt, caramel, ripe fruits and hoppy notes.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear orange coloured with a small off white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits and sherry. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, sherry and hops. Hoppy finish.

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is cheesy, caramelish and fruity. Caramelish and raisin fruity. Sugarish and slight sticky. Lasting sweet and fruity finish.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of SecretSanta himself. Pours a cloudy amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet caramel and nuts with an oxidized touch. Solid body, very sweet malt and toffee with a solid shot of aroma hops but not quite enough to balance the massive sweetness. Some warming alcohol in the finish. 100410

UPDATED: JUN 17, 2010 12 oz. bottle thanks to beerman6866 the pour was dark amber and cloudy with 1/2 inch head, lots of carbonation, lacing and clinging aromas are of malts,fruits and caramel apples taste is sweet from sugar and honey a powerful yet clean barley wine not to strong of alcohol the sweetness tends to hide it very well

Sampled at Backus’ Backyard Bash. Hazed orange amber with no head. Sweet caramel and toffee, brown sugar.Good.

2007 bottle. Poured light-medium amber with a short, swirly cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up sweeter medium-skinned fruits and pale malts with heavy alcohol amplification.. spicy pepper and floral notes at the edges.. dry hint of cardboardey oxidation at the very back. The flavor was on the strong side and it showed a little age to it.. pale malts, caramel, and lighter-skinned fruits at the core with floral and peppery bitterness around.. more oxidation than the nose with dried herbal and woodsy character.. finished sweet enough to conceal some of the warmth. Medium-bodied, dry, and spicy on the palate with low-ish carbonation.. decent all around.

Tasting at the McBackus Backyard Bash. Thanks to Ibrew2or3 for the taste! Dark amber pour. Big caramel apple sweet malt aroma. Very sweet caramel malt taste with just a sour tang of bitterness.