FiftyFifty Old Conundrum Barley Wine

Brewed by FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Truckee, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Had on draft at the brewery. Fruity, plum, raisin, slight vinous quality, caramel, lots of melanoidans. A very good barley wine, a bit young.

On tap in Truckee, served in a pint glass. Reddish brown with medium beige head. Smells of apples, dark fruit, booze. Taste is fruity with caramel and raisins. Pretty tasty.

Dark brown pour with an aroma of dark fruit, caramel, and alcohol. Dark fruit flavor with caramel, alcohol, and hops at the back end. Impressive brew.

Sampled at FoBAB 2011. Phenol hairspray aromas from a brown red body. Bitter hairspray flavors. Chocolate. Odd chemical alcohol finish. Not sure what was up with this. 6/3/6/3/12

draft at fobab, pours dark amber tan head nose of vanilla bourbon caramel, flavors of vanilla lots of heat, caramel, cotton candy, sticky hot finish

draft... in a event with a bunch of barrel aged barleywines this is one that stood out, the hops show through the barrel and provide lots of balance

Medium brown with a fizzy white head. Sweet molasses aroma and taste with caramel notes and a mildly musty finish.

On tap at The Monk’s Kettle. Hop pellet aroma, heady and grassy and a bit of raw wort in there, too. Very hoppy nose, a bit odd for a barley wine. There is a hint of caramel sweetness, too. Dark coppery ruby-brown, clear, with foamy-creamy off-white lacing head. Medium heavy body, lightly oily and chewy, with medium carbonation and alcohol warming. Starts rather dry, with a light carbonic tang and neutral fruity hoppy character - light orange and grapefruit. Some alcohol sweetness, with raisin and dates, mild caramel, and a ton of hop bitterness. Finish is bitter with malty raisin sweetness, and a bitter dry after. Not too sticky, but the sugar is there.

Tap @ brewery. Mahogany body, clear, small tan head that becomes a ring and laces nicely until it vanishes. Aroma is dark fruits, hoppy-fruits, floral, pine, powerful butterscotch funk, yeasty like unbaked bread dough. Mouth is fullish with...almost fluffy carbonation, pretty nice but fades away by half-glass. Flavor is lightly sweet, fruits, butterscotch funk, yeasty like bread dough and leather, some roastiness, well-hopped with a piny finish. Interesting beer. Tasted pretty great cold, but deteriorated as it warmed. All in all pretty good.

on tap-pours a retaining tan head and ruby red/mahogany color. Aroma is fruit, malt, hops. Taste is dark fruit-plum/raisin, medium malt-toffee, pine hops all balance nicely. Soft carbonation, some alcohol.