 Monger (500), Roscoe, Illinois, USA
Jun 1, 2008
Bottle from Mystery Swap 3.0. Pours a hazy orangish color with a fluffy white head. Aroma of caramel, over ripe fruit, citrus and hops. Taste is semi sweet and malty with a ight bitter hoppy finish. Alcohol is well hidden. Very nice barleywine.
bu11zeye (4066), Frisco, Texas, USA
Dec 9, 2008 (22 oz. bottle) Pours a clear amber body with a medium off-white head and descent lacing. Aroma of caramel, nuts, pine, and herbs. Flavor of nuts, hops (citrus, pine), caramel, fruitiness, and toasted malt with a bitter finish.
michael-pollack (1683), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 8, 2008 22oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, toasted malts, resin, alcohol, light grapefruit, light malt, pine, citrus, biscuit, and some miscellaneous fruit. Poured amber/orange with a hint of copper in color and a tiny, creamy, rocky tan head that lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer. Hazy. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is light to medium sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of hops, toasted malts, resin, light citrus, caramel, light pine, and slight grapefruit. Medium body. Thin, slightly dry, slightly sticky texture. Average carbonation. Bitter, sweet, hop and caramel finish. 10.5%ABV is well hidden.
alexanderj (1519), San Diego, California, USA
Dec 5, 2008 Bottle from South Bay Drugs and Liquor. Poured a dark amber with a dense, off white head. Some lacing. Aroma was fruity, sweet and caramelly with some earthy and musty tones. Flavor was very English in style with toffee and caramel predominating over a fairly mellow hopping. Some earthiness and nothing more than a solid flavor. Not overly great. Palate was pretty solid.
BuckeyeBoy (1259), Boise, Idaho, USA
Dec 1, 2008 22oz Bottle from last year. Pours out a nice amber topped with a cream head. Aroma of hops and caramel on this one. The hops have dropped a little but plenty still around. The sweet caramel and good malts fight on.
BBB63 (3865), La Porte, Indiana, USA
Nov 21, 2008 Bottle and served in snifter: Clean coppery hue with a lasting frothy off-white head and produced very good lacing upon the glass. The nose detects plenty of grassy, resiny and catty hop esters along with caramel and toasted malts, grapefruit and star fruit esters, and a hint of metal shavings. The taste is hoppy and citric at first before a nice dose of sweeter malt come about. Hop spice and a hint of medicinal tones round out the finish. The mouth feel is aggressive and lively, actually the ABV is well hidden all things considered. Very much in keeping with the more hop forward barleywines of the west coast. Solid and quite drinkable beer.
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