Brooklyn Monster Ale

Bottle thanks to dchmela, "Born in 2007" the bottle claims. Pours a deep brown to orange color, sort of cloudy with a nice tan head. Nose is sweet dark fruits and some faint alcohol. Flavour is similar, dark fruits, like raisins, and maybe some cherry-ish notes. There is a fair bit of hop bitterness there as well. It’s pretty sweet and smooth, although there is some alcohol apparent in the flavour. It is pretty creamy and smooth, and carbonation is low, but nice. On the whole, it’s not too bad, but the alcohol comes through a little bit too much perhaps.

Nice amber color. Small head with little lacing, but this is to be expected with a barley wine. Smells of malts, light citrus, mild alcohol, hops, and sherry. Strong caramel malt flavor with a lingering bitterness from the fuggles hops. Fairly smooth for a hoppy barely wine. Should age excellently. I have to say, this is much better than I expected from a company that I would have never expected to put out a barley wine.

Poured a light amber, orange color. Not a lot of foam, but appropriate for the style. Leaves slight lacing. Not a strong aroma. Slightly malty, very slight hops, slight alcohol. Very Smooth taste. Nice malty backbone, some hops to flavor but not overpowering. Well balanced. High ABV is well hidden. Mouthfeel is warm, very slight carbonation. Alcohol warms as it goes down, but not overpowering.’ All in all, this is a reallly nice example of an English style Barley Wine. IMO, this is by far the best beer in the Brooklyn Variety Pack, with the Dark Chocolate Stout a close second.

355ml bottle. Foggy reddish brown body. Low greyish head. Ripe fruits , toasted dark malts and alcohol in the aroma. Taste is fairly dry malts with a strong citric/piny hopbitterness and an evident alcohol burn. Big body. Long malty-bitter finish. Rough and tasty.

Bottle - Poured a dark copper- reddish amber in color with a very small white head that all but disappeared. Aroma is of sweetish malts and spicy hops. Flavor is of citrus, sherry, alcohol, and spicy hops. Finishes with a bitter, alcohol and malty mix of hops and spicy malts. Pretty good...

2006 bottle courtesy of hellbilly. Sweet fruit fermented aroma. Cooper body with thin head. Flavor had a moderate sweet caramel flavor that was good. Smooth on the palate a good brew. Thanks Joshua.

bottle poured a red amber in color with a thin head and light carbonation. aroma has malts, light citrus, sherry, wood, and cherry. flavor is hefty in the alcohol department with rich malt and fruited touches. medium mouth feel with frothing carbonation. became more malted as it warmed up with some resin and pine hops and seems smooth for something of it’s strength.

Bottled. Drank both the 2002 and the 2000 in 2007. Both had a magnificent fruit cherry, and citrus flavors. The eltoh has settled very nicey over the years, much more in comparison to the fresh bottles which have a stronger hop character that i could do without in my barley wine.