Barley Johns Barrel-Aged Rosies Ale (Batch 3)

Brewed by Barley Johns Brew Pub
Style: Barley Wine
New Brighton, Minnesota USA

Serve in Snifter

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On draught during the Autumn Brew Review 2009 in Minneapolis, MN. Pours a hazy brown colored barley wine with a thin beige ring that quickly disappears. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, some raisin, a touch of cherry and toffee. Taste is full bodied, very little carbonation with flavors of a tawny port, bourbon, a hint of cherry and vanilla. Finish is quite sweet with some bourbon, brown sugar, apple and vanilla aftertaste.

Growler. Dark amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, licorice, dried fruits. Flavour is alcohol, licorice, malt, coffee, dried fruits. Full body. Powerful beer.

Growler, courtesy of yespr. An oily pour leaves a dark copper beer under an minimal off-white head. Alcohol, dried fruits and perfume on the nose, vinous bordering boozy. Sweet flavor with alcohol and raisins, some caramel as a background. Warming, full-bodied and rather flat. Throat-burning finish that lasts for a good while. A big beer that isn’t much suited for drinking, it’s a sipper. Way to hot, but still nice. 091024

hand bottle ... Ok ive no idea about the other versions... but this was a big boozy mess... deep black... big whiskey nose ... over sweet .... sickly whiskey ...

A Mes rate. Bottle at Borefts 10am day after hotel tasting.
Slightly murky dark brown with a very short lived head, in fact I think the only thing that kept it up is the viscosity. The commercial description uses the word ’subtle’ twice. I found nothing subtle about it at all. In fact, no, that’s a lie, there are some subtle beer like qualities to it... Basically it’s all heat and raw bourbon to me. Spirit concentrate. All booze and no trousers.

Growler.
[ Courtesy of yespr ]. Clear dark brown color with a small, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, berry, smoke - wood, raspberry notes, moderate alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy and very oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20091024]

Bottle at post Borefts BF 09 tasting. Big boozy whisky/bourbon aroma. Hot spirit like oilyness in mouth. Bit hot but quite nice supping beer. Hot as hell.

I enjoyed the Wild Brunette enough to sway my decision on dropping the $9 for 5.5oz pour here... Pours a cloudy brownish amber with a finger of creamy beige head. Lots of sherry in the nose, some fruity and sweet notes to. Faint bourbon, compared to the sherry, hints of apple and vinous. The taste is heavily influenced by the barrel aging, it’s hard to believe that this is a third cycle through these barrels... Vinous, more sherry, bourbon, and caramel. Lots of barrel notes. Good, but the overwhelming sherry/bourbon presence puts a glass ceiling in place.

Handbottled, 14%. Quite alcoholic aroma, a bit of mild paint thinner. Clear dark brown colour, red shine. No head. The flavour is quite sweet, has a lot of alcohol. Vinous, some paint thinner, vanilla. Has some good elements, but why so much alcohol?

Jesper’s growler. Thanks! Pours a clear brown with a diminishing beige head. Sweet with aromas of English liquirish. Also some smoked whiskey notes. Also some wood. Full bodied. Long alcohol warming finish.

Cloudy red with no head. Sweet aroma with plums, figs and roasted malt. Sweet flavour with figs, plums, roasted malt and caramel. Warming alcohol towards the end. Boozy.