Brooklyn Monster Ale

Brewed in 2007. Clear copper, thin beige head. Extravagantly sweet aroma - tons of caramel and toffee, plus hints of vanilla and eventually some prune or something like that. Flavor is decidedly less sweet - the caramel and toffee are there, but so is a bourbonny note and more alcohol heat than I was expecting from the aroma. Some crisp peppery notes, too. There are some fruity notes as it warms. Pretty enjoyable overall .

Thanks to Tayner for this extra. Pours a dark amber with an off white head that lasts for a while and leaves some nice lacing on the glass. Caramel, vanilla, raisins, biting alcohol, and citrus on the nose. Flavor is caramel and citrus with some raisin and booze. Slight bit of oxidized (cardboard) flavor. A nice citrus hoppy finish. Prickly carbonation and a medium to syrupy body. A decent barleywine.

Deep reddish colour, small off white head. Fruity warming spicy malty aroma. Flavor, citrus, pine some maltiness a very warming after taste. A very well rounded unassuming barley wine that growes on you the more you drink of it.

Poured reddish brown with a small off white head. Aroma was alcohol and dark fruit. Flavor was sweet with dark fruit and warming alcohol. Good beer.

bottle 355ml 4€ at Pikkulintu Helsinki 250808 shared with JK54B.Thanks! color: reddish brown scent:barley wine. Taste: Vintage. Kick of pine and grapefruit spicy ginger then dried fruits sweetness and hops in aftertaste. I was warned by staff to take this last of the night ,you can’t taste anything after that. True but this I want more.

A reddish brown colour. Some hints of prunes and maltiness in the nose. Nice sweetness and dried figs and licorice in the taste. The taste is coming better and better during ageing. A bottle at Pikkulintu shared with Mirjukka.

12 oz bottle, born 2006. Clear garnet brown with some beige bubbles. Nose is caramel with herbal notes of sage and mint. Almost medium body, oily, with an odd sour tang. Taste is watery toffee and lemon that turns nasty with formaldehyde and bitter greens. I had a fresh one and don’t remember the harsh aftertaste. Bad ager or bad bottle?

Color is caramel-orange with a quickly diminishing head. Aroma is generic-ale fruity with some peach and cherry. The flavor has some nice maltiness and toasty biscuit, very smooth, not very intense for a barleywine. Finishes with some pine-resin hoppiness. Not a typical barley wine, in some good ways, some not so good ways.