Better Bitters Left Hook Barley Wine

Dark reddish brown with no head, soda-style carbonation. Strongly leafy in the nose, caramel, fruit punch. Thick without being syrupt. I detect dried fruit, maybe pineapple. Pleasant, but ultimately nothing great here.

[769-20071020] Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007 (Toronto, ON). Sweet burnt leafy caramel aroma like week-old oven burn. Clear, amber red body with a quick off-white head. Sweet malt whiskey without the tang flavour has caramel floral fruit notes. Smooth medium body. Alcohol is hidden.

On Cask at Volo , Canada
Appearance :Clear amber red with small long lasting tanned top. 3+
Nose : Light hint of smoked dry wood, ripe fruit , meadow hop with drying alcohol followed by dark malt whiff.
Flavour/Palate :Medium light bodied with semi-oily textures. Sour front shown with alcohol but not to dry. Fairly thin for Barley ale . Some chewy citric end. Barley that need more substance.

Cask at Volo Cask Days 2007. Clear amber with a tiny, bubbly head. Aroma of sweet malt and a bit of booze. Thin body. Flavour is sweet, with notes of toffee and licorice, and a very quick finish. Not a bad beer, and surprisingly mild given the alcohol percentage, but it lacks the bosy and character of a real barley wine.

Cask at ’Volo Cask Days ’07’. Pours a clear orange-amber with a spare diminishing off-white head. Decent aroma of sweet malt, sugar, fruit and faint hops. Watery flavour of mild malt and fruit. Alcohol’s well hidden though. Not awful by any means but a Barley Wine?