Avery Samaels Oak-Aged Ale

pours amber with a small white head. Aroma hits you hard with pure alcohol and sweetness. This just smells sweet. And the taste is just that. pure candy sugar from and oak tree. Too much for me, and too cloying for the grimreeser.

Clear amber color, short head. Aroma of soft alcohol, oak wood, sweet caramel, obvious vanilla, some hop. Sweet alcoholic taste, dry oak, cognac, vinous, vanilla. Very strong, but nice as well. Not as hoppy as other barley wines.

Cloudy amber color; a head with a few mm of creamy foam. The beer and vanilla aroma join each other; oak aroma, as can be found in full bodied white wines. Full mouth, respectable body strength, very good malt taste; the alcohol strength, with it’s warming feeling, is immediately perceived; the good vanilla flavor adds complexity; fudge; the hopping is adequate, strong, of good quality. In the final, balanced and less extreme than the flavor, there is a good mix of malt, caramel and bitterness.
For sure a beer pushed far, but extremely enjoyable.

12oz bottled in 2005 from mgumby10! Nose of caramelly, sweet dark fruitiness, oaky woodiness, with a hint of alcohol; rusty red with a few shot lived bubbles; flavor is sweet caramel, cherry, vanilla, and oaky woodiness; body is fairly heavy, and the finish is a smidgeon of alcohol (which for a 14.9% brew is not much) Alcohol well covered, maybe cause it’s 2 years old! I loved this barleywine!

Poured the color of honey with a dirty white head. Aroma is slightly sour and with sweet malt. Very sweet carmel flavor that changes to a burning alcohol reminiscent of vodka. Too much alcohol here.

The vanilla and oak aging are pronounced. More like a barley wine than an English-style strong ale. 14.5% was not as overwhelming as I had imagined. Lip smacking sweetness was just too much for me. Hints of sour cherry, apple, and coconut although I can’t imagine them adding coconut. At $7 for a bottle, this is the most expensive brew I’ve tried.

Really disappointed in this brew. The aroma is fairly pungent, and the taste almost makes me wanna puke. Too much alcohol here. I had the Dogfish Head 120, which has much more ABV, and I wasn’t nearly as offended by that brew as I am with this one (in fact, I loved it).

Poured an amber color with white head. Smells of caramel, vanilla, and alcohol. Taste was extremely sweet. Started off wth caramel and vanilla flavors followed up quickly with alcohol. Definately a sipping beer.