 Drink4Satan (494), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
Aug 22, 2008
Pours a deep amber colour with a small, quickly fading off-white head that fades to a small ring. The aroma is extremely rich, with notes of fig and port, vinous malts, molasses, vanilla, wood and overripe fruits. The flavour is cloyingly sweet with a massive vanilla/oak presence, chewy caramel and turbinado. It is noticeably boozy and the fig and port complex is also huge in the taste. The palate is syrupy and full, obviously, with fine and lightly tingly carbonation. It’s not too intense, because I would never admit to that, but it is definitely overly sweet.
rkuhnel (1180), Eureka, California, USA
Nov 19, 2008 I am not sure I have ever had anything quite like this before, Drinks more like hard liquor than beer. Very dark orange color with a small tan head. Very pungent nose of ripe fruit and oak. Smooth mouthfeel and the alcohol is well hidden for something the powerful. Flavor of caramel malts, citrus hops, and ripe fruit. Probably not for everyone but I enjoyed it.
blutt59 (930), Dallas, Texas, USA
Nov 18, 2008 bottle, coper colored pour with fruity sweet aroma, flavors are syrupy, sugar with port wine oaky notes
petermadsen (354), Vesterbronxxx, Denmark
Nov 1, 2008 A deep orange barleywine with next to no head.
Aorma is vineous with loads of caramel, alcohol and some slight vanlia-like aromas.
The flavour is mellow and sweet with loads of caramel and malt. The oak is barely noticable apart from the vanila.
The body is surprisingly light for a beer this size.
I really couldn’t see why this beer had to be pumped this hard. It hasn’t made it more complex, extreme or anything - just high alcohol...
demitriustown (597), Macomb, Michigan, USA
Oct 29, 2008 12 oz bottle: Bottled in May 2006: Batch 2. Via trade with lb4lb. Thanks! Aroma is pungent, extremely floral, dark fruit like plum dominate. Deep dark rich aroma, caramel, light hop poking through, butter malt, and an awesome all around scent. Appearance is an extremely cloudy amber looks almost like very cloudy apple cider with a medium sized head that diminishes into a soapy film. Taste is oak, vanilla, big on caramel malt, some citrus poking though, and almost a whiskey like taste to it. Overall, this stuff from 2006 is aged to perfection, IMHO. A really good Barley Wine that you should sit down for at least two years to get the full enjoyment. Cheers!
Bragesnak (1400), Aarhus, Denmark
Oct 21, 2008 From LIC, Aarhus, DK.
Bottled, 211008.
Ruby red with white head. Aroma of wood, malt and alcohol. Flavor is caramel, oak and alcohol
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