3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On bottle from Vinmonopolet Vika.
Dark amber, ok foam.
Aromas of lightly dried fruits balanced with good carbonation & bitterness.
Full body & high complexity.
Some sweet notes & good integrated bitterness.
Very enjoyable
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3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From a 0.33 L bottle. Clear reddish amber body. Dense low blond top. Smell of sweet biscuity and caramelly malts. Plummy fruit tones and a whiff of resiny hops.
Taste is bitter-sweet with a big and clean caramelly malt body. Fruit-cake frutiness and a bold fruity and resiny bitterness. Medium body, oily texture Warming alcohol and a hoppy bite in the ending. Good stuff.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Vika enjoyed at home
Amber red, tanned head. Smells of dark fruits, dried fruits and some caramel malts. Heavy sweet, quite malty, dense fruits and raisins all the way. Finish with heavy bitterness, resins and some fruit tendensies. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. A heavy barleywine for sure that is on the fruity side. Quite enjoyable and would really fit in a big snifter in front of the fireplace at winter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Vinmonopolet in Valkendorfsgate, Bergen. Dark amber body, medium off-white head. Nose is caramel, red berries, dark malts and hints of red berries and toffee. A bit faint, but OK. Taste is dark malts, raisins, alcohol and hints of burnt sugar. Bitter alcoholic, near-astringent finish. Medium body and carbonation. Not too impressive for a barley wine, which I normally like.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Clear red amber, beige head. My nose is totally not able to let any air through, so I haven’t got any idea about the aroma. Fortunately I do still taste something. What is taste is a nice barley wine. Not too sweet, with distant hints of barrel aging, maybe some wood. Good body, might have been a little oilier. Good carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Bier Koning at home. Slightly hazy amber with a small off white head. Aroma is sweet but also a little hoppy. The mix of sweet and bitter seems weird for the style and made think of drinking a combination of barley wine and ipa. Still nice, but a little strange.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Mild hopfiger Beginn, der in weiten Teilen das Malz überdeckt. Eher wenig würzig, erst im Verlauf intensiver, mild alkoholisch-hefig, etwas herb. Süßer Abgang, hopfig, alkoholisch. 9/11/10/11/9/11
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from De Bierkoning. Dark amber body with subtle head. Nose of sweet caramel, toffee and lots of barley wine. Taste is sweet, sugary, with rough texture and lots of barley in there. Really nice. Hops kick in at the end. Very well done!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
aroma has lots of candy at first (much more than in the single hopped brewdog sorache i tasted a beer or two before...) and it has some rotten fruit/ mandarin... the candy fades very quickly however, but the mandarin remains and whats left is a faintly flawed RIS... so nice, but not AS nice..
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap at De Wildeman, Amsterdam, 02.03.12 Pours amber with a white head. This is initially quite furiously both bitter & sweet with an emphasis on the bitterness. There are some dusty hops and a significant warming from the alcohol. Citrussy (lemony) under that sweetness with a slight pithy edge. A7 A4 T9 P4 Ov17 4.1
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