1.2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
Cask gravity at Dover Beer Festival 2006. Very dark red/brown colour. Funky aroma, strong and sickly. Strong dark and funky. Frankly, I didn’t like this one bit.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
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.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
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.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at White cliffs Beer Festival, February 2006. Mid brown colour with ruby highlights. Definitely odd aroma. Funky lambic/Belgian sour character. Don’t know whether that was intentional but I rather liked it. However, it does not sit too well with the developing sweetness on the palate. Otherwise, its woody with caramel and plummy fruit flavours. Very odd, but I didn’t have a problem with it.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
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.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
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.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
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.
2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dover Fest, 2006 Wild yeast aroma - slightly vinegary. Obviously strong and sweet. Interesting. Crude. Ugly.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
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.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours chestnut brown with just a few bubbles alongside the glass- the look of a barley wine for sure (even if I normally like to see a richer head). Nutty aroma with a hint of raisins.Nutty flavours, with caramel and raisins mingling in- still quite bitter towards the finish. Sirupy texture and velvety mouthfeel. A rich and wonderfully complexbarley wine- obviously (from the other ratings) it has stored better on bottle than on cask.
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