Det Lille Bryggeri Barrel Aged Barley Wine

Brewed by Det Lille Bryggeri (Roskilde Øl)
Style: Barley Wine
Viby Sjælland, Denmark

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Very good, even, dark-beige head over darkbrown beer with reddish highlights. Alcohol, rum, Bourbon, wood, dark fruit as plums, vanilla. Woody flavours, backed up by aged alcohol & vanilla touches. Wry fruit, fusels, complex. Less well-bodied than expected; alcoholburning, but discreet. Certainly a good, reasonably complex beer, but somewhere, one feels entitled to expect just a tad more for this kind.

Sampled at SB & WF 2011. Pours hazy amber with no read real head. Smells white spirits. Tastes sweet and woody with a similar finish.

Sampled @ SBWF on September 29. Pours amber with no head. Very viscous. Smell is sweet and malty with a smoked feel to it. Reminds me of the smell of an Islay Whisky. Taste is very sweet and sticky with honey, oak, peat and some smoke. Aftertaste is rather dry and pleasant. Very intense and nice but perhaps a bit too sweet.

Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2011. Hazy amber beer. Oaky aroma, sweet, smoked. Oak flavor, malty, fruity, but too sweet and sticky to be a top class beer.

Sample @ SBWF 2011. Pours clear mahogany few bubbles. Smokey barrel whisky excellent. Flavor is sweet sourish fruity candy bitter raisins madeira. Finishes bitter sweet.

Rating #573, tap @ CBF ’11

Blackish beer with a fine head. Aroma is liquorice, yeast and some berries. Flavor is more complex with liquorice, smoke, bitter hops, plums, alcohol, ash, chocolate and a pretty bitter finish. Thick and creamy palate.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty bourbon vanilla aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity slightly roasted malty bourbon flavor with hints of vanilla and dark fruit. Has a fruiy malty bourbon barrel finish.

Bottle at Valhal. Dark amber colour with a small brown head. Aroma and flavour of dark fruits, malt, hops, spice and caramel.

clear very dark amber, small smooth light brown head. very nice dusty sweet malty woody barley wine aroma, notes of dark fruits. flavor is wood, hops, malts, dry. pretty tight and dry bw

Dark brown and clear. Has an off-white head, fully diminishing. Aroma of oak, a bit crisp, sweet, sugar, caramel. Heavy sweet flavor, moderate bitter finish. Syrupy texture and soft carbonation. A bit boring.

(Bottle, 0.25 l, at Pikkulintu) The beer poured really deep dark brown and almost clear. Its head was minusculous and it had light brown shading. Aroma had vanilla, mildly roastedness and noticeable amount of alcohol. Palate was full bodied and dry with low carbonation. Flavours were vanilla, roastedness, vineousness, mildly ash and low carbonation. Aftertaste was vineous. The barrel aging was clearly present in this beer but it was not disturbing. I found it actually quite pleasant - especially the aroma.