 MrChopin (111), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
May 3, 2008
Sweet nose with burnt sugar and molasses, maybe some cinnamon. Color is dark pumpkin orange with dead tan head, gone quickly. Taste follows nose and is sweet, but alcohol and hops save from being too sweet. Alcohol also saves palate from smothering texture.
wilkie (1043), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Jul 14, 2008 2002 Vintage Bottle, at the Shenandoah Beer Throwdown, thanks argo0! Copper body, with small white head, and cloudy with some floaties. Aroma is caramel, oak, smoke, peach, plum, hoppy and a little earthy. Flavor sweet, sticky, and similar to the aroma, hops matured very well, alcohol in aftertaste. EXCELLENT BEER that aged very well.
jeremytoni (531), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
Jul 5, 2008 From a bottle poured dark amber color with a fair amount of head. Very sweet flavor with an alcohol finish.
Beerman6686 (536), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 4, 2008 Poured an amber color with an off white head. Aroma was composed of very sweet malts and dark fruits, and hops, and alcohol. Flavor was a extremely sweet, just enough hops to balance it out and hide the enormous ABV.
polomagnifico (386), Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Jun 29, 2008 2005 vintage Bottle thanks to dchmela!! Aroma of sweet dark dried fruits, caramel, old leather, and winter spice. Very good and delicate. Pours a gorgeous medium amber brown bourbon hue with a small head that fully diminished but did leave some lace. Flavor is vanilla, caramel, alcohol, metal, and dark dried fruits. Palate is cloying, full bodied and oily flat. A very good aged barley wine but a little bit too cloying. Great aroma and flavor though. Top notch with a few years on her.
Tweety (158), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jun 25, 2008 "Really Old Beers and Really Stinky Cheeses" tasting session at ACBF 2008. From the 2004 bottling. Really strong, lots of malt up front. Really lots of malt all the way through. The cheese pairing helped this one out, mellowing the sweetness, but still, just a little too much sweetness.
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