4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20Enjoyed on tap at FOBAB. Served in my FOBAB taster glass.
A: Pours a semi clear brown color with a tan head forming on the pour. Nice retention on the head, it recedes slowly to a thick ring and leaves nice splotches of lace.
S: Dark fruits, caramel and some light baker’s chocolate. The barrel is there faintly with some light bourbon and oak.
T: Light bourbon and some heat up front. Sweet honey, dark fruits and toffee all present. There is a spicy hop flavor as well that seems to creep up and recedes at different spots during each sip.
M: Medium bodied with a medium carbonation level.
O: I thought this was solid overall. There was a little too much heat from the booze for me even at 12%. The beer did get better as warmed up so I’d suggest waiting a touch before consuming given the opportunity.
Serving type: on-tap
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
(Draught) deep copper, fine tan bubbles. Nose of brown sugar, barrel, raisin, vanilla, bourbon, rich. Taste is huge on bourbon, vanilla, barrel, brown sugar, quite toasty and very alcoholic. Nice beer though.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Growler to tulip. Finally the last 16 individual component. Aroma of booze, brown sugar, chocolate, figs. Dark brown, opaque, small ring of tan head. Taste: follows nose. Sweet with big chocolate. Lingering roastiness, big hot alcohol burn on the tongue and throat. Extremely thick, viscous mouthfeel. Soft carbonation, full body. Overall: glad to finally get my hands on this. It's a little too rough to come together as a beer on its own, but the imprint it leaves on the anniversary is fantastic.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
(Critique chaotique du extreme beer fest 2013): Entre une stout et un barleywine, chocolat liquide, très décadent. La vanille du baril explose mais se fait aussitot rattraper par les tannins, magistral.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pouring at the Saturday sessions of Extreme Beerfest. Pours a deep brown with a thin yellowed beige head. Tons of warm sweet bourbon and vanilla on the nose. Cocoa, chocolate, warm bourbon. Long vanilla. Boozy and big, tasty but huge. Long wood, chocolate, vanilla. Lingering alcohol, cocoa and vanilla.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap at EBF 3/16/13.
Fruity and sweet with a hint of oak. This is a very well made barleywine that hides its abv like a champ. I went back for seconds.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap. Pours with a hazed deep copper to brown hued body with a medium sized tan head. Aromas are deep and boozy, chewy, molasses, rich maple, oak, mild english esters, plums. Flavors are pretty dry for its size, boozy, but no fusel aggressiveness. Barrel character is much different than the nose: spicy, nutty, alcohol, almost some agave. Fuller bodied with livelier carbonation than expected. Lingering tannin.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Draft at Barrelworks. Pours dark brown with a slight tan head. Sweet sugary nose. Taste is really nice, near overpowering sweetness followed by an almost cinnamon spiciness. This stuff should go into a bourbon barrel ASAP to chill out for 2 or 3 years!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sample FOBAB ’12 - Went to this one early as I’ve always thought FW does quite well with the ’extreme’ ABV beers. Poured brown with a medium sized head. Aroma was tons of sweet caramel, bourbon and dark fruits. Flavor was quite good, albeit somewhat hot - again, very sweet and sticky, dark fruits abounded, some toffee as well. A bit one-dimensional, but the dimension is not bad at all. Palate was actually quite smooth compared to what one might expect - minimal carbonation - warms as it goes down. Good, yet not great...
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Fobab. Pours a hazy amber with hardly any head. Sweet caramel nose with loads of Bourbon. Solid body, low carbonation, sweet caramel, vanilla, Bourbon and some licorice allsorts. Warming alcohol in the finish - not boozy though.
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