3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz bottle. Resin,floral hop aroma, with earthy and fruity undertones. Cloudy amber with an off white thick head. Very bitter at first and finishing sugary sweet with a lingering bitterness. Medium bodied, with a creamy, thick mouth feel. Soft carbonation with a long sweet finish. This is a great barley wine, there are lots of hops (100 IBU’s) but I love hops. The high alcohol is masked well.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Great tasting Barley Wine. Slightly hoppy but mostly caramel and roasted barley. Very good with a steak.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark amber with a thick beige head. It left a thich ring of lace around my glass.
Smell is spicey and floral. I also detect pine and hopps. Very sweet and earthy.A sweet creamie taste in the beginning turns into a bitter hops with some citrus acidity. It also has a great malt taste to it.Very smooth and well balanced. The alcohol is not powerful for being 9.2% ABV. Carbonation is really not noticable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 ounce bomber - $5.99 at Bullock’s in Marietta, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours a slightly hazed, deep amber body with a frothy, off-white head.
Smell: Sweetish hoppy aroma smelling of juicy grapefruit and orange wedges stirred up with some sugar and caramel sauce.
Taste: Sweet, sugary caramel malts shift towards fruity flavors of citrus a touch of pine simply bursting with hop bitterness. Splash of fresh-brewed tea. Pinch of white pepper. There’s a bit of alcohol heat in the bittersweet, fruity finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Medium carbonation. Fairly smooth mouthfeel.
Drinkability: It’s one of those self-proclaimed American barleywines that finds more akin with Double IPA’s. Worth a try.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
red orange. aroma is very hoppy with some malts, more like an iipa. taste is bitter as the aroma indicates. somewhat unbalanced toward the hops.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Wow. What a pleasant surprise. This is more like a sweet and heavy imperial IPA than what I generally expect from a barley wine. Pours light amber/orange. Light carbonation. A little bit sweet, a little bit thick and heavy with fruity hops.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
22 oz bottle. Another beer on the quest to rate beers I’ve had. Really like this barley wine, one of my fav’s. Pours a dark golden/amber color with a small white-to-off-white head. Immediately from the pour, you can smell the delicious caramel/candy malt in it; upon closer inspection, you notice some citrus and a fairly strong hop presence. Tastes of caramel malt, very strongly (perhaps too powerful) with a slight citrus tinge and some hops to it. As I said, the malt makes it a little difficult to go down, but overall it is very good, with a different twist on the barley wine.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap at Brouwer’s Hard Liver 09. Pours a light orange with a smallish head. Wow, does this ever have hops on the nose! A bit of oak (though I don’t think it’s aged), and hoppy as hell with just a bit of light, sweet malts to counter. This is more like an IIPA than a Barley Wine - very, very tasty. I really enjoyed it.
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