Cisco Baggywrinkle Barleywine

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: Barley Wine
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle but is write 8.8% not 12%.... Aroma:Oak vanilla,caramel,fruity... Appearance:Hazy amber-brown,good head.. Flavor:vanilla oak caramel,raisin...

My wife brought this one back from a trip to Rochester. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy orange-amber color with a huge creamy orange-white head that lingered forever and left good lacing. The aroma was orange peel, pine, molasses, licorice and pear. The flavor was sweet and bitter with strong elements of orange, lemon and pine and light notes of pineapple, pear, caramel, honey and ginger. The finish was long with mixed fruit and pine lingering. Full bodied and a bit syrupy. Well done.

22oz bottle in a snifter. Pours deep ruby/brown with a lacy, light beige head. Aroma of caramel and cereal, plus a little toast and chocolate from the malts, and a decent amount of hops for this beer. Flavor a good blend of everything. Smooth texture, but could be a little thicker. A pretty good barley wine.

(22oz bomber thanks to bu11zeye) clearish amber with an oily tan/copper head of bubbles. Nose of rich caramel, raisins, brown sugar, honey, and just the perfect amount of hops. Taste of honey, pine, caramel, sticky sweet, with a bitter and resinous linger on the palate. Really excellent palate linger, and great beer.

The aroma is caramel, brown sugar, cooked vegeatbles. The appearance is a hazy, murky red/brown, off white head. The flavor is caramel, brown sugar sweet, pine, vegeatble. The fnish is brown sugar, pine and resin hops. medium to medium/thick in body. Decent, not great. For a BW, it’s defintely mediocre.

(22oz bottle) Pours a lightly hazy amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, cherry, bourbon, and bread. Flavor of caramel, bread, vanilla, toffee, and grass.

Bottle courtesy bu11zeye. Pours a clear amber orange color with a white ring of head. Aroma is heavy wood, dark fruit, brown sugar and spice. Flavor is a bit tart, woody notes, brown sugar and some sweetness. Dry finish, a bit bitter and woody.

bottle, thanks to bu11zeye, muddy orange brown color with a sweet buttery caramel aroma, flavor is sweet caramel, fig, thinner finish

Thanks to Drew for giving us this bottle. Served in a Bruery tulip. Color is a slightly-cloudy orange-copper color with a half-finger off-white head that fades almost immediately and has just a few bubbles around the edges. The nose has a bit of caramel and some slightly-sweet malt along with a bit of cherry. It’s a bit plain and I have to struggle a bit to really get into this one. The flavor is a lot of sweet malt, bordering on becoming a bit cloying. There are some cherry notes as well as toffee, stone fruits, and a bit of fig. There is a bit of strawberry, especially strawberry seeds. Some light alcohol is there as well. The body is medium with low carbonation. It seems a bit thin. I don’t find this to be terribly offensive, but it’s a pretty average brew and certainly doesn’t stand out in a crowded field. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-28-2010

22oz. Bottle (at 9%ABV per the Bottle): Aroma of malt, caramel, slight toffee, diacetyl, light Bourbon, slight vanilla, and zero hops. Poured brown with a hint of orange in color, and a small, creamy, dense, tan/beige head that diminished but lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer. Cloudy. Sparkling. Many large and medium-sized particles throughout. Flavor is medium sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of malt, slight alcohol, slight coffee, light toffee, caramel, diacetyl, butter, wood, slight bourbon, slight hops, and a hint of vanilla. Kind of a mish-mash of flavors, and not well balanced. Medium to full body. Slightly tingly, then slightly viscous, and lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Light Bourbon, malt, slight vanilla, diacetyl, butter, wood, and light hop finish is medium sweet and slightly bitter, as well as a little dry. 9%ABV is a bit present in the flavor, but generally well hidden. Flavor is off, unbalanced, and full of butter.

Thanks riversideak! Some wet dog, oxidized. Gummy with malt, brown sugar. Hazy cloudy caramel in the glass, sparse tan head. Stemmy hops, abrasive and a hint of tartness in the background, doesn’t come together, kind of messy.