On Cask at Volo , Canada <br /> <b>Appearance :</b>Clear amber red with small long lasting tanned top. 3+ <br /><b>Nose :</b> Light hint of smoked dry wood, ripe fruit , meadow hop with drying alcohol followed by dark malt whiff.<br /><b>Flavour/Palate :</b>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.

<b>Cask</b>. <i>At Volo Casks Days ’07</i>. Okay, I wasn’t expecting much, I admit. Clear copper pour with a small frothy head. Aroma of oxidized apple cores, dry stale hops and moderate alcohol. This, slightly sour taste, mildly boozy, a little woody, again the apple cores - tastes a lot like a watered-down Old Ale. Thin, slightly dishwater-sour mouthfeel, quite flat and lifeless, with a wan, sour linger. Ehhh.

Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007. Ruby tinged brown body with a small beige head. (3+) Aroma of scorched caramel with a sweet malty base (7+) Sweet malty flavour with a tangy bitter note to it. Labeled as 8% abv, but you would never know it from the flavour. Lacks the punch of a barleywine, but is fairly quaffable albeit simplistic.

Obviously higher ABV and very weak barley wine. Watery, but barleywine aroma, likely needs considerable ageing. In the style, but I cannot detect anything beyond a basic barley taste.

<i>Cask at ’Volo Cask Days ’07’.</i> 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?