4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: AUG 14, 2003 very good stuff!!! Very complex, yet very drinkable for a barley wine. It didnt taste like 10% alcohol. I got nothing but a smooth, fruity, tastey beer. A bit pricey for those little seven ounce bottles though. Rerate: This beer becomes more special as I get older. It is likely the best beer you can find on draught in Houston. This beer makes memories.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
355 ml bottle bought @ Bierzwerg.de. Pours dark reddish wooden brown with a rather small offwhite head that doesn’t leave much trace while dissipating. Smell is sweet with caramel, plums, ripe dark grapes, wood, alcohol, honey, vanilla extract, fudge and very subtle hints of rubber. Taste is sweet, bitter and tiny sour with sweet dark bread, grass, orange peal, caramel, alcohol, lemon zest, plums, toffee, pineapple, green grapes, wood and hints of minerals, vanilla, red wine and resin. Mouthfeel is sticky sweet, tiny tart, tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with burnt caramel, orange peal, wood, pineapple and lemon zest.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Clear red/brown colour with a nice white head. Aroma and flavour of caramel, alcohol, dried fruit, malt and hoppy notes.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
It isn’t flashy, but it’s a nice and traditional barley wine. It has some tame fruitiness, amber velvet mouthfeel, slight sourness, and just enough alcohol to keep you sort of guarded. It’s a sippin’ beverage and I like it.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Strong, fruity aroma is rather sweet but not cloying, and has an overtone of molasses plus a firm hint of honey. It pours a beautiful clear mahogany-copper with a thick, fluffy, pale copper-tan head that leaves a fair amount of lacing. Sweet, fruity flavor has tones of honey and caramel, as well as a noticeable, if not fierce, alcohol bite that nicely offsets the sweetness. Texture has good body and an OK amount of fizz. Sound the foghorn and pour this one down the hatch!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Donkeramber , veel kraag. Complex aroma , smaakt zoetig en tamelijk vol, Veel mout, bitterzoet, fruitig. Lekker spul, waar kan ik de kratten kopen?
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Aroma of plums, prunes, wood and alcohol. Slightly unclear brown colour with light brown head. Sweet and spicy flavour with prunes, alcohol and oakwood. Nive bitter finish from the hops.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Bierzwerg. Dark brown colour with big head. Aroma is malty, dark fruits, hoppy. Flavour is caramel, hoppy citrus finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle poured into shaker glass
Aroma: Sweet and malty. Caramel, vanilla, bread, & alcohol.
Appearance: fairly clear. coppery color with little to no head
Taste: High sweet and mild bitter
Palate: medium body and thin texture. lively carbonation. short finish that was sweet and just barely bitter
Overall: very good flavor but seemed a little thin. Lower end of the spectrum for alcohol on a barley wine but I enjoyed it. Did not have much heat to it. Flavors definitely seemed to come out once it warmed up a bit. Had this at a pizza place but would pick up another bottle to try it at home.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours an amber color with a small white head. Aroma of dark fruit. Taste is of caramel, apple, sweet fruits and hops. Nice alcohol burn towards the end. Full mouthfeel.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured a reddish amber, with a fluffy tan head. No apparent lacing. Smell is figs, prune, caramel, vanilla; just very sweet. Taste is much the same, well-balanced, sweet upfront with tastes of raisins, figs, caramel, and alcohol. It has a creamy mouthfeel and ends medium bitter. Pretty damn good.
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