General Lafayette 275th Anniversary Ale

Formerly brewed at Copper Crow Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Snifter

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Draft @ the tiedhouse. Well, I probably shoudn’t have paid $16 for a beer that I have a couple bombers of in the celler, but screw it. This one has a really pretty reddish-brown color with a medium head. Aroma is oh so inviting - heavy burnt caramel and sugar, rich raspberry, syrup, and some light wood. Flavor is mildly woody with loads of dark sugar and fruit - delectible raspberries, maple syrup, brown sugar....Sweet, syrupy and full bodied. I’m not sure how the bottles are holding up, but this keg from 2006 was damn good with nary a hint of alcohol. Awesome barleywine!

Bottle shared by toncatcher. Nearly perfect score for this one. Increadible aroma’s and flavor. Brown sugar, mollases, caramel, almost no hops which was a good thing. For me this would be a beer that is severly underated.

Bottle shared at the 2010 jimmack invitational. Man did I love this beer. Poured a clear bodied super deep red brown body with not head what-so-ever. Aroma of molasses, dark fruit, caramel, toffee, raisin, honey, and only a touch of alcohol. Man is this sucker smooth for a four year old, syrupy and thick but not cloying, a slight touch of heat on the back of my throat is the only indication of the 13.1% ABV on this monster. The flavor on this one is truly outstanding, honey, molasses, vanilla, toffee, caramel, wood. This beer turned out to be simply outstanding. To bad there were only 275 bottles made, anyone know where the other 274 bottles are??

Suprised to run into another General (as we say in the south Luh-fay-it) beer. This place was cool as hell. Anyway a dark amber apperance with a moderate head. The aroma has an oaky presence with some cherries, raisins, cherries, and caramel. The flavor is quite sweet and complex with some vanilla, molasses, brown sugar, raisins, and caramel. The alcohol is masked well for 13% but still shows. Dear god is this a nice barleywine!

UPDATED: MAR 10, 2008 Pours ruddy medium brown color with 1-finger khaki head that goes away and never returns. Aroma is nice; caramel malt, prunes, berries, tobacco, mincemeat, plum, blackberry, some feety funky notes. The aroma is very complex. The taste is plummy, pruney, with caramel malt, brown sugary figs, tobacco, cabernet, and slight maple notes, plus some mid-palate hops and funky notes. Remains on the sweet side, and somewhat syrupy. The alcohol is minorly noticeable, but to me it doesn’t detract; rather, it adds to the nobility of this one. With age, this could easily become a perfecto robusto.

UPDATED: AUG 15, 2008 Draft. Deep coudy ruby color with tan head. Aroma of malt,cherries,light wood,plum, and alcohol. The taste was sweet and malty with fruity cherry flavors. Rich mouthful with hot sugary finish. This was Very good. I agree that it’s still young and hot, but you can taste the potential. Oh yeah, 5oz $5.

UPDATED: SEP 7, 2008 Pours ruby/brown, with a small and quickly disappearing head. Aroma is malt, cherries, alcohol, dark fruit, and caramel. Flavor is cherries, malt, caramel, brown sugar, alcohol, and dark fruit. Fairly heavy body, with a syrupy feel. Sweet and decadent. A great beer, and worthy of my 900th rating.

Bottle from cquiroga (I think) at Lost Abbey 3rd anniversary. Yellow paper label large bottle being ignored as some other rarities are being passed around. Excellent. dark amber color. Sweet buttery malty, almost as if it were barrel aged. Alcohol well hidden.

Bottle shared at Jimmack’s invitational. Pours brown. Nose and taste of figs, dates, raisins, brown sugars and molasses. Very sweet and delicious.

Bottle shared by toncatcher. Awesome sweet malty aromas and flavors. Caramel dark fruit and molasses. Love this beer