 Stine (1380), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Dec 29, 2006 Updated: Sep 4, 2008Firey orange in color with a yellowish creamy head. Aroma is vinegary steak sauce, with some oakiness and brown sugars. Tastes like the venom of the demon himself; a heady concoction of maple, toffee, and generally crushing sweetness. In a word, overpowering.
brewblackhole (1366), Muskego, Wisconsin, USA
Dec 24, 2006 at first,all you get is a port wine aroma,this must be from the oak barrels, then the chocolate malt and the dark fruit with plenty alcohol come floating in,very little head, highly sweet malty raisony,vanilla taste, almost the texture and heavy sweetness of Mogan David wine, alcohol certainly evident but not as overpowering as you would think. A single bottle gets you flushed in the face. A wonderful high gravity brew
slang (392), Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Dec 23, 2006 Updated: May 25, 2007Almost $9 12 oz!, from City Bev. in NC. Funky nose. Clear amber beer. First few sips are VERY astringent, w/ a strong alcohol base... this fads quickly thou to the malt monster the mother truly is. Great beer& a nice treat. I’m damn buzzed on a single, what!? -- 4 Packs, anyone?--
almankin (10), Crowley, Texas, USA
Dec 22, 2006 The taste of Alcohol over whelmed any flavor that might have been there. It tasted like flavored whiskey.
TheEpeeist (1429), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 22, 2006 12 oz bottle. Batch 2. Clear pink orange with a small off-white head. Strong nose of rum and cherries. Intensely sweet and chewy clover honey and vanilla with light pine drying. Peppery caramel. Like the Beast alcohol dominates.
nhorween (639), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dec 22, 2006 Bottle. Clear, garnet red color with a thin, creamy head. Nose has many of the standard barley wine elements - vanilla, oak, cherry, figs - plus some sweeter, port or amaretto like notes. Alcohol is apparent. Nice aroma, nothing outstanding. Flavor is hugely sweet with overwhelming oak, vanilla, and date notes.Caramel malts and meager bitterness. Alcohol can be felt all they way down the throat. Cranberry notes also. Very wine like, faintly (very faintly) reminiscent of a riesling. Syrupy and alcoholic in the mouth. This beer is way too sweet to be balanced. There is some inspiration there, but it seems like Avery just put as much sugar as possible into this beer in order to get as much alcohol as possible. I’m much more of an American Barley Wine fan, but still, this one could be better.
LooseCannon (914), Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Dec 19, 2006 12 oz bottle. Bottled May 2006 Batch 2. Cloudy amber color with small off white head. Sweat caramel aroma. Taste of alcohol and sweat malt
Theis (3617), Denmark
Dec 17, 2006 Bottle. Clear deep cherry red - no head. Lots of sweetness, cherry-like, prunes, light wood, sugar, yeast, very much like a desertwine !!
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