4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Hoppy (for a barley wine) aroma. Golden-orange in color. To me this is more IPA-ish than Barley Wine, very dry-hoppy. That said, I really like it!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brown-orange. A little cloudy. Aroma is pretty much hops. Full bodied with just a touch of noticable alcohol. Grassy bitter hop flavors with some citrus. Just a little malt. Well balanced and not at all syrupy although on the other hand not that distinguishable from a good DIPA. Whatever you call it it’s a real good beer.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
This is a good drinking barleywine ale. Enjoyed hop flavors and the thick body here. Is not overly syrupy as some in this style tend to be. I would drink this again as I definitely enjoyed it.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured dark orange with nice head that lasted smelled of hoppy malts tasted of caramel very good @ hiding alcohol
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours red amber with tan-yellow head. Unfiltered with floaties. Great hopping - grapefruit and mild citrus. Background malt, dried fruit. Complex dried fruit, grapefruit hop bitterness. Melds well. Tiny note of plastic and mild alcohol, but hardly worth mentioning. Nice medium to full on the palate with jelloish consistency. Good residual flavor. A very good sipper!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Aroma is fruity with apricot and some grape, caramel malts and big bitterness awaiting. Taste is first grape, then caramel malts, then grape again finishing off in a big bitterness. Complex indeed.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
barley wines are not completely my thing, so please excuse me for not knowing shit. from what i can remember of the other barley wines i’ve had, this one seemed pretty standard and well done. similar to a double ipa. very hoppy. this was a good beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz. bottle from fidelis83- thanks again, Jeremiah! 2010 vintage. I’ve been curious to try this barley wine for a while now, maybe because the flying pigs remind me of Cincinnati. Anyway, pours a cloudy reddish-brown-amber color with a small beige head. Aroma of sweet caramel malts, raisins, brown sugar, cherries, honey, cardboard, alcohol, and citrusy and earthy hops. The hop and alcohol bitterness is right there in the flavor, too, along with more brown sugar and honey sweetness, sweet caramel malts again, and lots of fruit- raisins, pineapple, berries, and vague citrus notes. Medium-bodied, with moderate carbonation and a sweet malty mouthfeel rounded out by bitterness and alcohol. Not bad, but kind of a mess; I wonder if I needed to give it more time.
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