Emelisse Barley Wine Bowmore Barrel Aged

Brewed by Bierbrouwerij Emelisse
Style: Barley Wine
Kamperland, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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Draft @ Emelisse 27/12/2011 as Xmas Bowmore BA. Orange brumeuse, col est beige crémeux. Arôme de grains avec le profile de Bowmore restant plus en retrait le tout donnant une pointe de cendre et tourbe assez modéré. le tout garde un beau profile sucré malté et caramel. Dommage car le bouquet de Bowmore reste trop discret. En bouche, malt épais, avec une légère présence boisée/fumée avec ce profile tourber et cendre des whisky Islay. Caramel léger et malt grillé, le tout assez doux avec une petite pointe de sucre sur les lèvres. La barrique de Bowmore est agréable, ce qui est bien pour un style de whysly que j’essaie de plus apprivoiser. Would be nice to see how it ages.

At ACBF 2011. Peaty aroma. Just not my favourite flavour. Barley wine hardly comes through. Just too Islay, peaty, touch of sweet toffee.

Smell is not the best, at least not what I like. Tastes sort of ’friendly’, soft and ripe. Very nice finish, very nice body and very nice carbonation.

Aroma is sweet malt with a strong bowmore note. Some caramel and fruit. Flavour is deep and full, bitter, yet sweet, lavished in sweet sweet Bowmore. Nice.

@ PWBF 2011. The aroma has caramel, orange, wood, whisky. Red-orange coloured beer with no head. The taste is sweet, light bitter, has medicin, oranges, some caramel, toffee. Bit sticky. Well bodied and belly warming. Nice one.

Bottle @ ACBF 2011. A hazy dark amber colored beer, with a white head. The aroma of fruits, apricot, wood, whisky with sweets. The taste has wood notes some bitter vanilla fruity and sweet. The aftertaste is bitter with sweet.

4th March 2011
Bottle at ACBF. Very hazy amber beer, nice pale tan head. Sweet malt with marmalade sweet hops supporting the Bowmore whiskey which is not overpowering. A little bubblegum sweetness underneath.

Draught @ Th. 4th. Alvinne Craft Beer Festival (ACBF) 2011, De Kasteelhoeve, Doorniksesteenweg 314, Outrijve (Avelgem), Belgium.

Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, smoke, plastic, medicine, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110304]

Clear amber with a nice white head. A lighter barley wine with defined charred notes that overshaddowed it a bit. The flavors of the barley wine become easier to taste after a few sips. Notes: On tap at the Alvinne CBF

Bottle at ACBF 2011. Hazy orange pour. Aroma of whiskey, peat and fruits. Flavor is iodine, peat, malts and sugars. Very nice complexity.