 savnac (394), Palmer, Alaska, USA
Mar 27, 2009 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.
thejon375 (390), Tampa, Florida, USA
Mar 26, 2009 Great tasting Barley Wine. Slightly hoppy but mostly caramel and roasted barley. Very good with a steak.
Meatmallet (120), Salem, Illinois, USA
Mar 25, 2009 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.
ChainGangGuy (2522), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
Mar 24, 2009 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.
carruthm (1109), Seattle, Washington, USA
Mar 23, 2009 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.
crackedmachine (82), Seattle, Washington, USA
Mar 23, 2009 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.
soccer290 (135), Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Mar 23, 2009 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.
trevor211 (500), Seattle, Washington, USA
Mar 22, 2009 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.
|
View Statistics
