Broadway Pub Elixir de Belphegor Barley Wine

Brewed by Broadway Pub
Style: Barley Wine
Shawinigan, Canada

Serve in Snifter

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Tap at Churchkey. Big bourbon nose that was almost nice, but is completely spoiled with heavy acetaldehyde. Taste is very sweet, very rough with again lots of acetaldehyde - green apple, some rubbing alcohol notes, plastic; Just an extremely messy beer.

Tap at the brewpub. Murky brown pour with creamy white head. Aroma is all apple pie with lots of spices and something strangely off about it all. Taste is very sweet and downright boozy, something very off here that I can’t put my finger on. Palate is decent, heavy and creamy but good. I probably won’t have this again any time soon.

Tap at Churchkey. Dark maroon, edge head. Aroma of embalming fluid - it was actually nauseating. Taste of rubbing alcohol, scotch and caramel candy. Best skipped.

Draft. Tan head atop cola/copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, Bourbon/vanilla, some vinous. Taste is moderately sweet, vinous/grape, vanilla/Bourbon. Lots of alcohol comes through. Sticky full body, low carbonation. Just another Bourbon behemoth that leaves very little character of the underlying beer.

en fut, au bateau de nuit. belle couleur brun orangé avec une mousse relativement pâle. au nez, caramel, boisé et fruit foncé. pour le goût la première gorgée à du gâteau aux fruits. en bouche, caramel, fruits, chêne, houblon, très rond. bien balancé et complexe.

Draught. Mondiale 2009 - day 3. Two amazing beer in a row from these guys? Daaaaamn!! Cloudy deep chestnut pour with a smallish creamy tan head. Slightly lactic dry aroma with wood resin, alcohol, sweet malt and lush, floral bitterness - juicy and very mouthwatering, even to someone well into his third straight day of beer festival mainlining, grimly determined to power through as many last-day ratings as possible - THIS one demanded time be taken to appreciate it. The taste was as promised - Oaky, somewhat boozy, but balanced out by citrus bitterness and fruity roast caramel malt sweetness - very appealing, not much vanilla/bourbon, thank goodness. Somewhat boozy, slick mouthfeel, with some astringency from the oak, but smooth-finishing, a real orange rind tingle left on the tongue too. Yum-my!

Draught at ’Mondial de la Biere 2009’, Montréal, QC. Pours a murky orange-brown with a small lasting beige head. Aroma of caramel malt and bourbon along with some hops, toffee, wood and dark fruit. Flavour’s sweet and malty along with dark fruit, wood and just enough bourbon. Alcohol’s well hidden. Medium bodied. Excellent stuff.

UPDATED: JUN 18, 2009 Draught at the brewpub. Dark brown color. Small vanishing beige head. Abundant sweetish aroma with the strong tones of wine, raisins, vanilla, bourbon, wood, caramel and fruityness. A rich and intense flavor follows much the aroma. The warming notes of alcohol are modestly present both in aroma and in flavor. Long sweetish aftertaste. An enjoyable and complex barrel-aged Barley Wine, merci beaucoup Marc!

UPDATED: JUN 8, 2010 Almost opaque brown with a thin mocha head. Good retention and lacing. Aroma is apple, syrup, caramel, alcohol, wood, spices and hops.Flavor is biscuits, dark fruits, grapes, raisins, wood, astringency and apple pie.

En fût au Broadway. La bière ou je devrais dire l’élixir se présente avec une couleur brune très fonçée ainsi qu’un col de mousse crémeux, imposant et très durable. Au nez c’est le caramel fonçé qui s’exprime en premier, ensuite on dénote des tons de chêne, de vanille et de fruit noir. Pour finir l’alcool enrobe le tout. En bouche le corps est rond avec une effervescence faible et crémeuse. Au départ on goûte des saveurs de sucre brun, vient ensuite une bonne présence de chêne et de vanille et pour terminer l’alcool et le caramel fonçé s’exprime longtemps en étalement. Le 10.5% d’alcool est bien camouflé Débil et Complexe!!!