Dicks Barley Wine

Brewed by Dicks Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Centralia, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 12fl.oz.
Clear medium amber color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, wood, light bread and roasted malt, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, wood bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20100410]

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of SecretSanta himself. Pours a clear deep amber with an off-white head. Aroma of oxidized caramel and malts. Medium body only, caramel and fruit and quite some good American hops that leave a decent bitterness. Nothing fancy here but a very classic American style Barley Wine. 100410

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours cloudy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is overripe fruity and dense malty towards caramelish. Sweet caramelish and solid hoppy flavoured. Dark roasted and towards breadish into a dry and bitter finish.

Bottled (thanks kenb!). Hazy dark amber colour with small off-white head. Aroma is malts, alcohol and American hops. Flavour is very wineous, but has a huge hayish hoppy dry finish.

Draught at Rose and Raindrop, Portland. Hazy reddish brown. Butterscotch aroma. Sweet and softly malty. The nouthfeel is chewy rather than sticky and there is plenty of mature well developed malt flavours.There is some grapefruity hops, but the malt dominates. A nice, warming beer.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear orange coloured with a small off white ehad. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits, hops and pine needles. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, hops and pine needles. Dry hoppy finish.

Tasting at Papsø
Hazy amber color; small creamy head. The aroma shows some sweetish caramel, light vanilla oak, sweat, very light cheese. Caramel flavor, partially sweet, clearly nutty, but not as sweet as expected; strong bitterness, stronger than the malt actualy. Not a typical Barley Wine by style, but still an enjoyable beer.

Name: Barley wine
Date: 04/29/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Dark Lord Day, 2005

hazy orange, huge frothy cream head, rich sweet creamy malt aroma, rich malt flavor, lots of hops, fumey,
-------- /> Name: Barley wine
Date: 04/05/2006
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2005? vintage

muddy brown, scant head, rich ripe fruit aroma with dates and raison, big creamy body, lots of rich ripe fruit flavor, chewy chocolate character, light bitterness

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

Hazy amber with a tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Flavour had grapefruits, roasted malt, caramel and piney notes. Finished dry and bitter.

Dark amber colour. Slight toffee aroma with hints of soft, light, chewy caramel. There’s a bit of brown sugar to round things off. Quite sweet and without enough complexity to keep me interested.