Green Flash Barleywine

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Vista, California USA

dark amber, smooth offwhite daead. aroma is hoppy, malty, sweet, very nice barley wine aroma - no hints of old beer, only good beer. flavor is sugary, hoppy, well blended, sweet, nice composition. this is a very good barley wine.

Red brown with tiny head. Sweet aroma with fruity and hoppy notes. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel and hops. Yummi.

22oz bottle. Cloudy reddish- medium brown color. Light tan head. Loads of toffee and chocolate malts, very nice toasted malt aroma. Nice light hint of citrus. Like those toffee candies with orange essence you can buy during the Christmas Holidays. Flavor of rich caramel malt. Lots of em. A nice body of toasted malts with a hint of nuttiness. Bold PNW hops character. Lots of grapefruit and big bold hop bitterness. This beer has aged very well, it is at least two and a half years old. Very strrong as well.
24 Dec 09.

Bottle 50cl. @ home.
[ Vintage 2008 ]. Clear medium to dark orange color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, dry fruity, raisin, prune, moderate to light heavy hoppy, orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is soft. [20090113]

2nd Anniversary Bottle 22 oz bottle # 926/6000, purchased at beverages and more soon after I moved to San Diego a Year and Half Ago. Its been sitting in my fridge ever since. After popping the top the bottle popped some bubbles and then poured smootly. Pours a nice rich amber with a mellow tan head that sits nicely on top of the brew. The nose is smokey and full of toffee and caramel. The taste is big and bold with toffee that fills the mouth. The aftertaste is quite bitter and doesn’t have that throat warming quality that I enjoy so much when it comes to barley wines. Certainly not the best barley wine I’ve had, but not the worst either, reminds me of Alpine Great.

Deep red-brown and coffee head; thick, layers of malt taste but a helluva hop sting; very good, but be ready for a real mix of opposite sensations. [Tasted next to Moylans Old Blarney Barley Wine] The Moylans has more hop flavor; the Green Flash has much more hop sting but not as much hop flavor.

Bottle 65 cl. Average fizzy off-white head that mostly lasted. Fair display of lacework. Hazy golden light brown color. Aroma was strong notes of malt, bread, grain, mild oak, and a solid floral and grapefruit notes. Over the palate came caramel and again solid hoppy feel. Full bodied with an average carbonation and thick dry mild alcoholic texture. Moderated bitter and sweet in balance. Lingering dry thick hoppy, oily and bread like finish. Lovely.

Bomber. Pours dark copper with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma is vanilla cake icing blended with fruity hops. Interesting but nice. Taste is an explosion of hop flavor. Tons of citrus and pine, fizzy on the mouth. The bitterness is borderline over the top but it’s all right because it keeps the substantial sweetness at bay, just barely. One of the better American Style Barley Wines I’ve tried recently.