Flossmoor Station Oaked Buddy Holley Barleywine

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Serve in Snifter

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Decent BA barleywine here. Not too sweet actually with notes of vanilla and oak adding to caramel and booze.

Draft on tap at the brewpub (Flossmoor, IL). Pours a richer deep brownish hazy pour, darker, big haze, orangish glowing edges. A frothy tannish head atop dies to a film, ok lacing. Aromas are twisty toffee, toast, touches of biscuits, touches of florals. Gentle abv heat and a bigger oak presence, tannic and wet wood, some vanilla, heat, dry hops kind meld together with just a faint waft of marmalade and nut. Initial is medium bodied, just a touch thinned, showing toasty malts, biscuits, dark fruit. A mellow dry floral hop, middle shows heat, touches of thicker body, toffee and roast, growing raisin and dried fruit, kiss of orange. Heat, dryness, oak tannins, dry, woody, kiss of vanilla. Backend is a touch buttery oak quality now, some dryness, vanilla, oak, that buttery caramel, touches of deadened thinned sweetness. Not bad, oak does well here, firm flavors, good example of oak bringing a lot out. Flavorful, a bit hot.