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Great Divide Old Ruffian

Great Divide Old Ruffian  - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
99
overall
Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine

Denver, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
8703.91/5.03.91/5.010.27%93.5Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Old Ruffian is a hefty, hop-forward Barley Wine. Seemingly mellow at first sniff, with its subtle fruit aromas and complex caramel sweetness, this deep mahogany-hued ale quickly shows its true character marked by bold hop flavors and massive hop bitterness. Old Ruffian’s rich, slightly creamy, caramel malt mouthfeel balances its grapefruit, pine, and floral hop flavors, working wonders on your palate.
A mind-numbing 90 International Bittering Units (IBUs).
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 DrnkMcDermott (1832), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Nov 5, 2007  
Sampled from 22 oz bottle. Hazy brown pour shows a little head for once. Smell shows brown sugar and sherry (that word again!). Not much alcohol heat for such a strong beer. This may be a cellareed bottle, it shows a less pronounced hop blact, in fact, closer to an english barley wine. Finish is a bit too bitter.


 thegreenrooster (1811), St.louis, Missouri, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Oct 31, 2007  
Pour is a brown with a very large tan head. Aroma is very up front with the hops but also has a smooth caramel malt that hides in the backround. Flavor is syurpy sweet at first then comes the caramel malts and finally POW the heavy dose of alcohol. Finish is smooth and has a lingering flavor. A very good spot on barley wine.


BenRod (44), Springfield, Missouri, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Oct 29, 2007  
Pours an orangeish red color with a lot of very nice head. Very fresh scent, full of hops and citrus, as well as some floral and pine. Also, maybe a little sweeter tones, like brown sugar or caramel. Very bold, up-front flavor filled with its floral hops, but the malt comes through very nicely and finishing with an alcoholic tinge. The beer seemed to cover the inside of my mouth and stay there. This was a very nice beer.


 RiverHorse (454), New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Oct 26, 2007  
Pours a cloudy orange color with some ruby tones into the snifter. There was a quick inch of white head and a ring of sticky lacing. The scent was very hoppy and fresh with some fresh fruit, alcohol and caramel. Initially there is a bold, spicey hop flavor with some malt, honey and fruit in the middle. A very strong alcohol presence is apparent in the finish. Very sticky and coating mouthfeel with a warming burn. A nice after dinner drink to drop in the snifter.


 JamesD (192), Centreville, Virginia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 21, 2007  
Very good, and I don’t even like barleywine. The aroma is yeasty and fruity, hints of raisin and brown sugar. The flavor is delicate maltiness at first building up to bitterness and alcohol in the aftertaste. The transition is smooth and not abrupt as I feared. I’m definitely going to buy more of this.


 motelpogo (4394), Plzen, Czech Republic
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
Oct 20, 2007  
bottled, Ölbaren, copenhagen. steady brown colour, aroma of vanilla and toffee, warming, biscuity, caramel, plenty of bitterness, mellow texture, decent drinking


 ekstedt (2411), Göteborg, Sweden
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Oct 20, 2007  
Bottle (pint) shared with three dudes at Tre små rum, Göteborg, Sweden. Wonderful reddish brown colour with a creamy off-white head. Intense fruity and caramelly malt aroma with aggressive piney and floral hops. Medium bodied and smooth, good balance with a long bitterness.


 redlight (1445), Winter Park, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/517/20
Oct 17, 2007  
draft @ the brewery. Hoppy spicy caramel on the nose. Pours rich dark amber. Rich malts, molasses flavors, with a heft hop flavor. Good barley wine!



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