Climax 15th Anniversary Ale

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle… Pours clear and ruby with a slight orange tint. The nose is fruity, malty and vinous – port, honey, caramel, dates and golden raisins. Full-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and soft carbonation. The flavor provides sweet caramel and fruity malts accompanied by nice, bouncy hops. Finishes luxuriant, malty and sweet. Bottle courtesy of jtclockwork!

A murky reddish rosé barley wine with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, a beautiful vinous malt with loads of herbaceous hops, maderized treacle sugar, very nice. In mouth, a nice well aged barley wine with sweet candy sugar, light vinous notes, barley sugar, very nice. On tap at Barcade Brooklyn, Dec. 30 2011.

Draft. Pours amber with an off white head. Sweet malty aroma, with herbal and earthy notes. The flavor has sweet toffee malts, toast, bread, floral hops, and herbal and earthy notes. Not bad.

Bottle courtesy of hopscotch. Clear amber pour with no head. Caramel malt aromas. Sweet, with caramel malt, fruit esters, and brown sugar flavors.

A very nice Jersey beer which is saying something. Good looking amber reddish pour with a small head. The aroma is a load of fruit along with a bunch of malt. The flavor has the fruit and a ton of malt but has a nice hop balance. Good dry finish if just a bit sticky. A fall or winter beer for sure,

500ml bottle thanks to jtclockwork for sharing–pours a disappearing offwhite head and amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, medium/dark fruit, candy sugar. Taste is herbal hops with some bite, medium malt-caramel/candy sugar.

Bottle shared with Jcwattsrugger. Pours reddish brown. Tan head. Nose of candi sugar (most dominant), brown sugar and caramel toffee candy. Taste of candi sugar, grain and barley. Artificial candy throughout.

500mL bottle. Pours amber/reddish in color. Sweet malty notes with slight fruity (raisin/prune) notes with a bit of alcohol in the aroma. Great full medium to full body with well balanced notes of sweet malt, fruit that finishes with a bit of alcohol bite as one would expect from a barely wine and a slight dry hop finish. This is quite a drinkable, very enjoyable Barley Wine. Definitely worth checking out if you can get it. Overall: (A)

500 ml bottle just released to the store. Pours deep amber with a short-lived, off-white head and lively carbonation. Aroma is bready, rich malt, cherry fruit and hints of hops. Full body is sharp. Flavor is of rich, sweet malt, cherry, grapefruit and herbal hops. Massive, long, bitter finish. Excellent barley wine.