Ballards Poms’ Delight

Formerly brewed at Ballards
Style: Barley Wine
Petersfield, England

Serve in Snifter

Bottle - Copper red in colour. Malty aroma with hints of shoe leather, caramel and dried fruit. Rich, warming, malty and fruity taste with raisins, malt, grain, caramel and some vinous elements.

13th May 2008. A ’liquer beer’ for ’cookimg or mixing’ says the label. Initially a shock to the palate it soon settles down to a sour malt beer that is quite mouth watering. Low carbonation.

Bottle. Pours a chestnut brown with a persistent tan head. Near-zero carbonation. Aroma of raisins and caramel, a bit sour. Fruit and malt with some alcoholic warmth. Thick palate. Decent barley wine.

Medium brown appearance with a minimal and quickly departing head. A pretty potent, heady nose showing plenty of alcohol. Just smelling wamrs you. Besides, the flavour focuses mostly on a vinous fruitiness, with the usual Ballards acidity to go along with it, but more like fruit acids this time. Cidery, yet medium-thick bodied, liquorous and plummy palate. Perhaps my favourite Ballards barley wine just because of the different take its acidity takes.

A Mes rate: Bottle at LCRBM3. Dark amber with no head. Flat and sour with caramel, raisins, plenty of malt and some fruit. Big alcohol finish. Lackng balance. Not a great barley wine.

3rd LCRBM. Aroma has caramel malts, raisins, prunes, bit winey. Amber-brown coloured with a thin beige head. Taste is sweet, has caramel malts, raisins, prunes. Nice beer.

3rd LCRBM. Sweet apples, almost like calvados in the aroma. Sweet and sour flavor with malt, raisin and flowery hops. Red berries. Rather alcoholic, still a nice beer.

Bottle@LCRBM. Sweet aroma, raisin, fruity and some sourness. Red color, beige head,few lace. Very sweet, fruity sourness, light bitter. Bit unbalanced but nice flavors.