Green Jack Ripper

Brewed by Green Jack
Style: Barley Wine
Lowestoft, England

Serve in Snifter

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On gravity at Bristol beef festival, 16/3/2013. Deep gold with a slight white head. Sweet berry fruits and malts, a touch of citrus hop, with a hint of spice and moderately bitter finish. Alcohol was very well hidden. Enjoyable.

Bottle from Beers Of Europe
Hazy amber color. Medium head. There is some malt aroma, but light. Malt flavor, moderate sweetness, some vegetables hint, more Strong Ale than Barley Wine. Quite strong bitterness.
Unimpressive.

UPDATED: JUL 27, 2012 Mid amber yellow coloured ale with a weak white head. A strangely weak aroma, a slight sourness and malt can be detected with a big sniff! Full bodied mouthfeel. Huge sweet flavour, burnt sugar and toffee apple, with a meaty sourness like Marmite. The sourness stays right through to the finish, where it marries with the sweetness to create a full bodied, if not a little cloying, taste. Tasted at the 15th Lynn beer festival, Stuart House Hotel, King’s Lynn, Norfolk ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aroma: humle frugt lidt graoe hinbær Ud.: gylden klar Skum:hvidt lang E.smag:sæd lidt bitter modrat Krop:medium For.:tør Brus:livlig 18-5-11 @f1

Bottle from Rehills in Newcastle. Dark golden coloured with warming fruity, apple and vanilla flavours and a sweet candy sugar and slight sour and floral finish.

Swing top bottle. Golden and clear. Medium body which is malty with some sweetness but not enough to overpower. This could have been brewed on the West Coast of the USA. A big compliment for a big beer.

Cask (CWAF2012, Fri)
Sweet and spicy, definitely a little christmassy. Excellent full smooth palate. Rich in the sweet malts, and the christmassiness has subsided, it’s just a tanginess rather than a spiciness. Huge bitter hoppy bite in the finish. Good one.

Tasted this cracking barley wine at the Paisley Beer Festival in May 2008. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear pale honey in colour with a loose open white head. A superb aroma of melted butterscotch and creme brulee, long in intensity. Silky smooth mouthfeel and no lacing - but who cares! Pale malt complex gives strong sweet flavours of butterscotch, burnt creme brulee, dates, maple syrup and vanilla. Spicy note of hop resins fade rather quickly in the brief aftertaste. Finish is warming with sweet sherry notes wafting off in alcoholic vapours, leaving a dry spicy note of nutmeg. A cracking barley wine and highly recommended.

Bottle at Nate’s Massive Birthday Kernel Piss-Up. Pours clear gold with some sediment and a big, white head. Toast, light caramel, some booze and banana in the aroma. Lightly aged malts in the flavor, more toffee, subtle alcohol, toasty sugar, faint leafy bitterness. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish, full on malty sweetness, not too much bitterness, some toffee and fruits. Very nice beer.

Bottle at Nate’s birthday, The Kernel. Colour is cloudy gold with flakes of sediment. Nose is ripe fruit, banana and carmel. Taste is banana, yeasty esters and caramel. Boozy in mouth.