3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Aroma has notes of ripe fruit & hops. Beautiful pour, cloudy rusty orange with wispy white head and slightly lacing. Flavor is full of malt, fruitiness & hops. Long lasting finish.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Appearance: Pours a dark amber with no head and just a few swirls appear when looking down.
Aroma: Fruity notes(cherry, apple grape), Turbinado sugar, and a little alcohol.
Taste: Caramel, burnt sugar, dates, dried mango. Bitter hops. Very tropical like Knuckle Sandwich!
Mouthfeel: Full bodied. From growler, so the carbonation was a little on the high side. It mellowed out when I let me glass warm up.
Overall: A really tasty west coast barleywine. I would only consider drinking this fresh personally. It’s very close to the highly acclaimed Knuckle Sandwich, so if you like that, you will love this.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The beer is a dark amber color with a khaki colored head. Intense fruit aroma to this. Lots of citrus notes as well as some dark fruit such as raisin and black cherry. Quite a bit of caramel and toffee notes with a hint of brown sugar. The flavor has a moderate pine and citrus peel bitterness with good grapefruit flavor. A strong malt backbone of toffee and caramel with more of the sweet dark fruits that were present on the nose.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
27 jan 2011, tap at the brewery. Really dark apricot, light but brown. Nose is spruce hops and a twinge of caramel malt and alcohol. Not at all what I expect from a Barleywine, even a hoppy one. Med/thin body and a bit fizzy. Spruce hops, very sappy, bitterness is tempered by a light sweetness. Not what I’d call a Barleywine but nice.
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