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.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
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.
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.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
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.
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.
3.5 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.
3.3 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.
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.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle conditioned. Clear chestnut brown with sparse off-white head. Sweet strawberry aroma, some toffee and other dark fruits. Sweet fruity taste; raisins, nuts and caramel with some light hops in the finish. Very smooth and creamy full bodied mouthfeel. A little bit too sweet for me but very good.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aromas of old strawberries - very astringent/acidic, not in gueze range tho. needs time to open, found it got better later on. Better than first impressions suggest.
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