2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Nice overall but a bit too sweet and raiseny for my tastes. The alcohol is quite disguised.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
doesn’t really taste like a barley wine. it’s aromatic and flavorful, but not your typical barley wine.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours deep dark caramel into the glass with a small head. Appears a but hazy with sediment more apparent if not poured slowly.
Aroma is complex, bursting with malty, port wine, rum/coke, and sweet chewing tobacco aromas (Red Man I think).
Flavor follows closely, but there is a hoppy bitterness that makes all these flavors come together like a cheap port after brushing your teeth.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark pout with little head. Almost all alcohol all around with notes of raisin/grape. This smells and tastes like I should be doing shots of this. Maybe i just don’t like Barley Wines.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle from MrPickles...thanks Andy! - Yeah, not feeling this one. Pours nice--a rosy copper with a small off-white head. Smells slightly sweet with a good deal of booze and a bit of baking spice that I can’t place. The alcohol sours the malt a bit and just makes it smell off. The taste is way too sweet--caramel with a bit of milk chocolate, and still way too hot. Real sharp and not inviting. Not impressed.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pretty average ass beer. I aged it a bit but it is flat and boring, just some caramel, just a shitty beer.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Deep brown. Close to no head. Aroma of wood, almonds, and bad soy sauce. Tastes just as bad. Initially harsh and full of alcohol, it then mellows out, with a texture and taste of overripe dark fruit. Not enjoyable.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours deep copper with a small head. Very heavy palate, bordering on syrup. Very sweet. It’s ok but only in small amounts. I rarely say this, but this might be a but to sweet and thick.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Opening with a faint hiss, the bottle dispenses its murky, blood red contents, devoid of any carboantion or foam. Aromas progress from toasty, molasses-y malt to intense fruit… concentrated pear, watermelon, and fig… then incense, and an alcohol assault like a swarm of bees. The beer tastes overly sweet, syrupy and plummy, and finishes with an unpleasant tension between black coffee and bubblegum flavors. It is perhaps the sweetest barley-based libation I’ve tasted. An equally ambiguous aftertaste flaunts intense anise, roasty/woody, and yeasty/cantaloupe characters… plus a blossoming ethanol nova. Sticky, lead-heavy heft ensures maximum flavor hangtime. Horn Dog takes high gravity beer to unpleasant excess… any carbonation at all would have resulted in a palatable quadrupel; otherwise, I would consider it an ice cream topping.
2.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Poured into a snifter. Appearance is a dark, murky, amber with a quickly dissipating, bubbly, beige, head. Aroma is of dried fruits, prunes, and a tinge of alcohol. Taste is somewhat musty. I get hints of burnt caramel and an alcohol burn in the finish. All around unremarkable. The nose hinted at much more than this beer actually has to offer. Rather unfortunate.
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