 polomagnifico (418), Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Mar 15, 2008
Bottle, 2006 vintage. Aroma is just incredible. Notes of Dark ripe and dried fruit, port, sweet caramel, licorice, and sugar candy. Smaller than average off-white head that mostly diminished and left little lace. Dark red amber hue. Flavor is more of the same sweet fruity port-like candied nectar. Palate is full bodied and smooth. A very good barley wine that has aged very well. I’m really surprised by the other reviews of this brew, it really was top notch at this point in it’s aging. Just beautiful.
ante (2503), Stockholm (Bromma), Sweden
Sep 3, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a cloudy reddish brown colour with a small off-white foam. Sweetish and really malty of caramel, milky chocolate, raisins, candied red berries and figs. Full-bodied with a rounded malty sweet flavour of cocoa, caramel, figs, fudge and raisins. Creamy mouthfeel. Long warming finish of fudge, raisins and alcohol. A surprisingly malty Barley Wine, very British.
baggio (41), stockholm, Sweden
Aug 31, 2008 Bottle@Oliver shared with Ante! (Thanks buddy!)
Appearance: Fuzzy red with a nice whiteish lace.
Aroma: Caramel, Raisin, Chocolate, Yeast, Herbs
Flavor: Caramel, Malt, Sugar, Cherries, Grain.
Palate: Thick and creamy with a nice touch of alcohol in the end. Very low carbonation on this one.
I liked this barleywine alot. Maybe because i drank it outside during a cold and rainy day. Still, it’s sweet and powerful and makes for a good nightcap or as a dessertbeer on its own. Recommended!
Heathen (508), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Aug 28, 2008 THOUGHTS: My 500th rating. Halfway to beer god. This had that great barley wine smell, but a little more candy and fruit than normal. Overall a little too cloying to be great, but still really nice. Hid alcohol very well, but could use some hops. Tons of flavor just almost all sweet, like a candied apple and gets to be very cloying by the end.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark orangey, red brown with an average, off-white head that kept a thin sheet for awhile. The aroma was heavy molasses and caramel, very light chocolate, apple, cherry, toffee, maple syrup, candy and fruity, a little lemony citrus, tobacco, something like cinnamon, alcohol and that barley wine smell. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and lightly acidic; while the finish was heavily sweet and lightly acidic and bitter with a average to short duration. There was caramel malt, citrus, cherry, brown sugar, apple, almost cinnamon, that barley wine taste, candy and fruit. The medium to full body was syrupy with fizzy carbonation and a light astringent and light alcoholic finish.
gnoff (2580), Göteborg, Sweden
Aug 27, 2008 (Bottle at Oliver Twist, Stockholm)
2007 vintage
On August 23, 2008
Clody copper to dark brown color, tan head. Sweet, sirup, alcohol, caramel scent. Also lacitc. Sweet and bitter taste. Caramel and roasted, som alcohol as well. Smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness. Also "Melissa officinalis" (citronmeliss) and licorice.
omhper (10456), Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 26, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Mahogany colour, minimal head. lactic cherry aroma with some caramel. Sweet and fruity with a tart, yoghutr-like component. Full bodied and thick, a bit syrupy. Floral resiny hops sets in late and gives shampoof lavour, black currant and resiny bitterness. A barleywine with some highlights, abut also a lot of drawbacks.
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