Gales Jubilee Ale

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Barley Wine
Horndean, England

Serve in Snifter

2002 bottle. Poured deeper caramel with zero head sticking around. The aroma picked up rich, well-aged caramel and darker fruits, showing heavy oxidation.. the hops were gone, but the malts aged rather gracefully. The flavor found darker fruits, caramel, and toffee at the sweet, again-very-oxidized core.. prickly alcohol showed toward the back.. tasty, but quite unlike its former self. Syrupy and thick on the palate with low carbonation and warm alcohol feel.. a decent deal degraded, but still alright.

Thanks Jason! Pours to a hazy brown body with no head. The aroma is strong. Oxidized Maris Otter, figs, dates, and apples. Very complex. The flavor is a malty and sweet barley wine with notes of milk chocolate and dark fruits. Rich tobacco. The palate is medium full bodied and creamy.

Many thanks, yet again, to Jason. Wow, aroma is intense. Yum, kettle caramelization. Some oxidation and odd sweet notes. Nice viscosity. After a few sips, the cidery notes just take over. Later becoming a bit too much. Well crafted, but past its prime.

2002 Vintage - This has stood the test of time a little better than some of the other Gales beers. Still has some body left to it, deep dark fruit flavors, with a semi-sweet maltiness, which turns somewhat bitter and vinous at times. A light bit of oxidation, and somewhat flat, but still has some life left in her to enjoy.

Bottle. Vintage 2002. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small fast disappearing off-white head. Sweet malty dark fruit aroma with some earthy hints. Sweetish malty dark fruit dlavor with some vinous hints and also some earthy tones. Long malty dark fruit finish.

A Bottle in the Spytighen Duvel in Turnhout (B). It’s a medium brown colored beer. It has a beige head with big bubbles. It disappears at ones. It has a great aroma of nuts, sweet, dark malts, oak brandy and port. The taste is very rich, chocolate, dark fruits, nuts, and a port flavor. This is a great beer.

Bottle courtesy of Bockyhorsey - Pours a clear reddish-amber color with no head. Zero carbonation. Aroma is sweet malt, dark esters, and slight oxidation. Flavor is mainly esters (prune, fig). Thick and coats the tongue. A decent beer. Thanks Bill.

Another wonder of the beer world from Gales - Deep chestnut body with a long lasting big bubbled off white head; The nose i slightly oxidized in a way that quite familiar to the Prize Old Ale, when it gets a short time to breath the oxidization fades and gives way to the clearest notes of Agen Prunes I have ever experienced in something not an Agen Prune, it has something petrol like chalky to it that I cant figure out but love; The body is oily smooth, salty, bitter super serious and super complex, it has a complexity that is only found in the corked Gales brews; It finishes with a balanced alcohol burn that bite only shortly and is taken over by salty bitter notes and the oils of the texture, lots of wooden complex aromas. Incredible and excellent!!!!