Big Dogs Moon Dog Barley Wine

Brewed by Big Dogs Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Serve in Snifter

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Lightly hazed brown pour with tan head and lace. Light citrus and dates aroma. Large dried fruit, medium bitter with a nice sweet aftertaste. Smooth creamy full bodied with excellent carbonation. A very special bp bw.

Sampler at Big Dog’s Brewery. Very spicy and sweet with bold malty overtones through the sip. Seemingly sweet for a barleywine, but nice overall.

A hazed dark amber barley wine with a thick brown head. In aroma, smooth biscuitty malt with vinous notes, raising dough, c-hops, a tad cloying. In mouth, an overly sweet malt with loads of hops, menthol, dough, iodine, unpleasant. On tap at Big Dog Winterfest, Jan. 29 2011.

Draft @ the AZ Strong Beer Fest - Pours a hazy deep amber color with a thin off white head. Aroma is floral hops and sweet malt. Flavor is a nice balance of hops and sweet malt. Not cloying though. Medium body. A very nice BW.

UPDATED: MAR 10, 2009 on tap-pours a tan head that laces and cloudy brown/red color. Aroma is sweet fruity, medium malt. Taste is sweet fruity, syrupy, medium/dark malt-caramel, alcohol, rock candy. Nice easy drinking. Mild carbonation. 090224-rerate12 additional months (now a total of 18) of aging have smooothed out the edges.

2007 PP Strong Ale Fest: Poured a murky brown color with a beige head. Sweet fruity malt with some pine scented hops. Nice sweet malt flavor. Pine in the middle. The finish was a mix of malt and hop bitterness. Warming with a medium-full body.

Draft at brewery. Reddish brown with a smallish head. Nice dark fruit aromas. Similar flavors with a decent hoppy finish. I liked it.

Tasted on tap at the 2007 Pizza Port Strong Ale Festival. This Barley Wine pours a hazy and muddy medium brown color. Medium to small sized white foamy head. Aroma is fruity and sweet, caramel and malty. A medium bodied barley wine. Malts are fruity, caramel and sweet. Hops are earthy and mild. A touch sweet and perhaps a little thin tasting. This one is more in the English style of barley wine. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Pretty decent. A little light caramel/molassess flavor up front. Hops are dominant in the finish. Mostly an okay beer, nothing spectacular.

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2011
Date: July 01, 2005
Mode: Draft, Nitro
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear dark amber, lasting big tan head
Aroma: rich malt aroma with lots of earthy hops
Flavor: rich malt flavor, great fruity character, lots of balancing bitterness without being hoppy, picking up hints of oak?
Overall: good but lacking the wow factor

Date: July 01, 2005
Mode: draft snifter
Appearance: solid lace, a beauty to behold
Body: wonderful creamy nitro body
Flavor: soo much better in the full pour from the first sip, wow wow wow, wow, the rich malt comes through, fruit is trying but need another 6-12 months to bloom, still a nice vanilla oak character, hops are there to balance but not to be hoppy, neither English or American

Date: April 05, 2011
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Appearance: cloudy amber, creamy off white head, sticky lace
Aroma: rich sweet fruity aroma, touch of earthyness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich fruity flavor, sweet caramel and vanilla, light earthyness adds a touch of balance but lets the sweet fruityness reign

Date: July 02, 2011
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
the fruity character just keeps getting better and better,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4