Dominion Millennium

Brewed by Old Dominion Brewing Company (Coastal Brewing Co.)
Style: Barley Wine
Dover, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. Gold color, not much head or lacing. Pretty much a straightforward caramel color and flavor barleywine.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle from Total Wine Sterling.
Aroma: The nose is big with notes of orange, papery hops, a slight vegetal note, and a bit of wet cardboard. If I didn’t know better, I would say this one is a touch past it’s prime.
Appearance: It pours a dirty, brownish orange with a very thin white head. The head settles to a small white ring around the edge of the glass.
Taste: A mix of big chewy malts, citrusy and herbal hops, and hot alcohol. The malts bring a lots of body, caramel, and dark bread pudding to the mix. The hops have a good bit of orange, herbal, and resinous notes. Lots of flavor but a good bit of heat go with it too.
Palate: Rich in body, but lightened by an abundance of prickly carbonation and a good bit of alcohol. All that alcohol dries it out in the end but there is a lingering bitter finish from all those hops.
Overall: There is a lot going on with this and I would love to see how this one ages a bit. Definitely worth a try despite a little unevenness in the body and the taste profile.

Amber-brown pour, slight off-white head. Strong caramel, honey and alcohol aroma. A bit of a tannic oak bite after a sweet fruity flavor. Medium body, mild carbonation. This is a heavy beer both in alcohol content and in flavor... no seconds needed.

I thought this beer was terrible. Way too alcoholic for the swill of the brewery dominion puts out. The aroma was impressive and overpowering and the taste was just atrocious.

Poured a hazy reddish amber with a medium-sized off-white head. Malty aroma with some cotton candy, honey, oak, and nuts. Taste has good caramel flavors with some wood. Finish is hoppy with honey. Body is slightly thick with a little too much carbonation. Overall flavorful and well balanced! I like the honey, it is a good addition.

12 oz bottle. Pours slightly hazy amber with a small spotty off white head. Aroma of caramel, fragrant honey, oak and alcohol. The flavor is sweet caramel malt, tannic wood, alcohol and dark fruit. Medium body with mild carbonation and an astringent finish. The aroma hooked me, but all else let me down a bit. Kind of hard to finish.

Wow can you say honey? Tons of it on the nose and the palate. Also hiding the alcohol very well. Slight amount of head. Decent lacing on the glass. I taste slight hops and even more honey along with slight malts mixed in. Delicious! Full bodied beer that’s for sure.

Bottle, shared with Tim & Jacob. Beautiful ruby body, thin tan head. Nose is huge rich caramel, alcohol, toffee, light chocolate, raisins & brown sugar. Flavor is caramel, raisins, alcohol, something in the body is reminding me of Gin - it doesn’t taste like Gin but feels like it. Plums & raisins in the bitter finish.

sampled along side the oak-aged version... rummy, toffee, sweet and a bit sticky. dry vineous and grapey. nice balance.. smooth and tasty.

12oz. Bottled on 02/11/09. Worthy of no more than a simple shrug, this beer is forgettable. Has a cloudy dark orange color with no head to speak of. The nose just has nothing going on, stale hops, minerals, a hint of malt and some rubbing alcohol. Flavor has some subtle malt characteristics and some grassy bittering hops that still have some bite. Mouthfeel is oily and viscous with a mild carbonation. Finish is still hot after a year and a half in the bottle. Meh. Unremarkable.