Great Divide Old Ruffian

Pours a deep copper with a thin tan head. Leaves gobs of lacing. Aroma is sweet, lots of caramel, vanilla, and pine. Taste is smooth, fair amount of heat, not too much. Citrus and pine from the hops, not as hoppy as expected, but very bright hop notes, smooth sweetness, not candy like. toffee, caramel, berries, grapefruit, Slightly chewy.

On Tap at the Great Divide Brewing Company, Denver 12/10/2007 Lots of fruit aroma. Amber mid brown coloured and very strong in alcohol with a crisp dry and bitter lasting malt finish.

Intense copper color with a marvelous living head. Heavy caramel malt in the aroma with hops in the background. The flavor is good, but the best part is the palate how it starts off dry and a little bitter and has a small tingle with a a short but powerful carbonation. It’s got some very nice clean oak taste to it too. The haevy malt is well balanced by the intense hops. It comes in pretty tame at 10+% and highly tolerable. The finish is pleasant. Sip this and good times will follow...

copper / mahogany color with an off-white head. Malty nose - caramel, (seemingly mellow, indeed...) Bitterness without a hop resin on the tongue - or really even a particularly big hop nose. Great divide seems to do a nice job hiding high alcohol with solid flavor, and this is no different.

keg 330ml 7,5€ shared at Hilpeä Hauki Hilarious American Weeks 170409 deep copper huge beige head strong tangy bitterness and sweet fruity malts sticky body. Very long lasting after bitterness.

A pretty solid nose with a nice white frothy head. A little sweet, but it is a barley wine. Great with a little age on it. Overall pretty nice.

Bottle, Mondial 2009. Clear amber with medium creamy caramel colored head. Aroma is big sweet caramel and piny hops. Taste is quite sweet and hoppy. Hints of pineapple. Not much bitterness, really sweet. Nice balance between hops and sweetness.

Nice barley wine style ale. Very hoppy. Fruity, I can smell and taste berries.