3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep golden beer out of the bottle with a hoppy nose with hints of alcohol. Pretty standard barley wine with lots of orange citrus and sticky caramel. I thought I got some smokey wood toward the end. Okay barley wine.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very thin in body. Tastes more like a poorly crafted IPA than anything. Has an off-metallic finish. The aroma has some promise, but not overly prominent. More malt would really help this beer out. Actually, more of everything- except water.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
2005 red waxed top bomber. Pours a mahogany amber brown color with a small white lacing as a head. Aroma is a malty woody solution with alcohol detected. Taste is mildly malty with hints of dark fruit blended with soaked wood and grain. Alcohol is detected in the back of the throat. A rather bland barleywine. Seems as though all the effort was put into the design of the bottle instead of the actual beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle thanks to jsquire for sharing: Brown in color with a fizzy tan head. Aroma, molassas, and some fruits, mildly hoppy. Flavor, mostly sweet with some bitterness coming through towards the end.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Fill the glass as a fizzy mahogany liquid with small head that dies. Faint in the aroma with little smell of malt and perhaps wood as well. Not a whole lot of flavor worth discussing besides that its sour and holds a mild malt backbone. Slight caramel and wood is detected with addition of cigar tabacco. Alcohol presence goes undetected with only its effect the key to noticing it. Fancy bottle and all but the bw falls shy from really winning me over.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
The aroma has alcohol, caramel, and herbal hops. The appearance is orange-brown with a small head. The flavor has lots of brown sugar, alcohol, and citrus. The palate is a little thin. Overall it’s OK but not great.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A true delight of flavor, warms the belly up with its taste of malts and strong hops. the taste is of sweet candy and caramel. hops are very citrus in character. Very Good
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: Nose of sweet plum, tons of caramel malt and a bit of alcohol. Sweet plummy hops and caramel are strong. The flavor is a bit thin with a light menthol note and some expected candyish hop notes and sweet malts. A bit unbalanced, but still has a nice nutty character. A bit of overbearing alcohol in the tial. Nice.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pour is haze amber with a thin tan head...smell is strongly malty and bready...taste is sweet and grainy...
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(bottle - 22 oz: 2005 vintage) Murky copper pour with not much of a head. Aroma is very rich and malty with dark fruits and candy sugar. Flavor begins kind of malty with some bitterness in the middle and a very smooth and malty finish. Aftertaste is slightly bitter. Warming, but hides the alcohol well. Very muted.
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