Boulder Beer Killer Penguin Barleywine

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Barley Wine
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

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Lucent brown, creamy beige head, thick creamy body, medium-high carbonation.

Aroma: silage, caramel malt, bready yeast.

Taste: caramel malt, alcohol, fresh bread, and hints of chocolate malt and candied fruit.

Great beer. Big and malt-centric but balanced. Alcohol is notable but smooth.

This beer is one of the best for Boulder Brewing. A bit of caramel taste with a hint of nut and spice. The Aroma has a bit more alcohol in it for the years past. Over all I would say one of the best Barley wines Ive had.

This is the best Barley Wine I have ever had. A great start with a heavy almost purple/dark red body and heavy tinted head. Finishes with a great after taste and not too dry. The extra malts give it a heavy flavorful taste that is to die for. A great Beer.

UPDATED: FEB 2, 2008 Had this beer on 1/2/2006. Aroma is a deep rich sweet malt scent. Color is a brown amber with light carbonation and a very thin head. Taste is smooth and sweet. Starting off with a medium body it goes down with a very smooth feel. The finish comes out easy with light sweet tones of malt backed by a gentle bitterness and leaves you with a warm alcohol feel. Its a bit lighter then other Barley Wines and a bit more drinkable. 2/2/08 - 2007’ bottleing.Aroma is a rich sweet scent with dried orange tones. Color is deep rich orange amber with slow carbonation making it look like it may be thick. Head is thin but tight. Taste is rich yet clean. Starting with a medium body it goes down crisp. Finish comes in with a sweet dried fruit flavor then a faint citrus taste and an alcohol feel. In the after taste is this wonderful dried orange peel flavor that rides out the alcohol feel. This is the best this beer has ever been

22oz bottle from Westroads poured into a Snifter. 2010 version, label says best before January 31st 2012. Pours a beautiful tawny red with almost no head. Aroma is sweet with fermented fruit and some slight pine hops. Taste starts lightly sweet and ends medium bitter. Taste of fermented fruit and much more noticeable pine. Slight taste of oak wood chips. Medium bodied with a thick yet slick texture. Soft carbonation and a long bittersweet finish. Overall, this is a damn good beer. I can’t wait until this years version comes out so I can compare.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a red-orange color with a large beige head. The aroma was sweet port wine, brown sugar, ripe fruits and pineapple. The flavor was sweet and tangy candied fruits with notes of caramel and brown sugar and light undertones of nut and fruity hops. The finish was medium length sweet caramel and fruit. Full and smooth body. Alcohol was well hidden. Very good.

This offering from Boulder Beer pours a dark caramel, ruby clear body, with just a touch of carbonated bubbles that leave a thin head spotchy and thin. The aroma is sweet caramel, toffee, bready, marshmellow. The taste starts smooth, nutty, tangy, sweet, with a barely a notice of that 10% abv it is touting. The finish is nice again you get a toffee, slightly herbal hoppy finish, that warms you up and can cap the night off as a great digestif.

This was a pretty good beer, though a bit ho-hum for a barleywine. Not strong or weak in the amount of molasses or strength. The beer is there but not.

Pours lite coffee brown w/ a full, semi creamy froth. Good hangtime receding to a full thick canopy and ring. Aromas are sweet w/ rasins and cakebread. Full nectar w/ creamy residual effers. Nice! Huge toasted chocolate cakebread steals the show. Bread pudding with white grapes comes to mind. This is an interesting specimen. Only midly bittered at best w/ a touch of peachpit. Nuances of cherry, plumb, and cocoa compliment this well made brew. The finish is long and sweet w/ lingering cakebread.

Ruby/chestnut color, clear body, with a medium off-white head when poured into a snifter. Caramelly, toffee-rich nose with earthy pine. Decent alcohol bite with deeper sniffs. Something almost like cocoa powder at tail end of nose. Moderately bitter, midly sweet flavor, somewhat astringent finish. Very tasty.