 JohnQPublic (387), Brooklyn, New York, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Mar 15, 2009
Pours a dark reddish-brown, with a healthy if quickly dissipating bone-white head.
Nose is prickly malt - dark, toasty bordering on roasty with a solid presence of cool hops that really feel like glacier to me. To be honest, I have a huge soft spot for what I tasted as glacier hops, which is why I was totally drawn in by this. Delicious.
Taste backs it up. Malt body is dark, integrated into the cool, minty, prickly hop note. A bit toasty with hints of roasty caramel sweetness, bit of cocoa, but all completely intertwined with the minty, cool, prickly hops. Like a billion microscopic, super-cooled needles covered in a toasty caramel imbedding themselves into your tongue. Interesting, and in my eyes, delicious. I could drink this a lot if fresh. Yum.
Fluffy carbonation that sits just on the border of fizzy, and really does a nice job of complementing the hops note. Nicely put together beer.
BREWMUSKCLES (1094), New Jersey, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 5, 2010 boozy alcohol aroma and flavor from the bottle. this characteristic dissapates soon after poured and a rumbling yeasty pour it is. deep orange and brown in color with cream brown and rolling carbonation. vanilla deep sweetness and touch of cherry with only a fleeting f*#k of bitter hops that would easily hook one of lesser experience. i thought that my $5 purchase of this 12 oz bottle might have been a waste. i was on the wrong track. mellow, deep and as good as any aged brew i have had before. good alcohol. damn good beer! these Canadiens have finally impressed me. whaduyya know?
tgncc (851), Bellmore, New York, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Jan 3, 2010 Pours a reddish brown, off-white head. The aroma is a little weak, cherry, malty, slightly boozy. The flavor follows, again not as strong as I would have expected. Maybe some hoppiness comes through in the flavor as well. The finish is long-lasting, cherry, booze, almost like cough syrup. Not as good as I might have hoped. Enjoyable seasonal overall, though.
TeamTrappist (419), jericho, New York, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 31, 2009 Bottle. Poured a reddish hazy hue. Hoppy alchohol nose. Flavors are deep and tasty. A nice bite of alcohol mixes well with fruit and hop notes. Finish is bitter with a hint of sweetness. Very very good.
Juelze (925), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Thanks for sharing bro. Pours a rich ruby color with thin off white head. Aroma is of black cherry, black licorice, and light brown sugar. Taste isn’t as intense as the aroma but the licorice is more subdued and the caramel and brown sugar are more evident and well laid out. Alcohol is well hidden but gives you a nice warming effect. Aside from the off putting aroma it’s pretty good.
Petrucci914 (601), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Pours a red-tinged brown color with a medium off-white head which fades quickly and leaves a clean crisp top. Aroma is brown sugar, dark cherry, and hint of black licorice. Taste is smooth and light for a BW, brown sugar, caramel malts, light resinous hops.
nimbleprop (951), SouthWest, Washington, Washington DC, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 12oz bottle scored as an extra via trade. Pours a translucent, nearly opaque, sorta chunky looking copper amber with a thin, slightly beige head. Aroma is sweet, caramel, sweet doughs, a little salty, booze, rum, sticky fruits. Flavor is very fruity, apples, pears, caramel, toasted grains, the hops are still there too, with some lemons and oranges way at the back. Full bodied with a sweet, sticky, slightly bitter finish.
godofsky (21), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 bottle. drank out of snifter. pours a murky, opaque dark brown with a nice foamy head that gets thin pretty quickly. aroma is of sweet malts and nuts, raisins and caramel. starts off sweet, and finishes off with a perfect hops bitternesss. definately a bigger hops presence than most barley wines. a complex, and great beer. dieu du ciel never seems to fail.
lithy (1855), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Dark dark brown, opaque with a light tan foam. Aroma is a bit biting, prunes, raisins, alcohol heat. Taste is a spiciness, estery almost, plums, raisins, alcohol thinning, a bit too carbonated for a barley wine.
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