skortila (2880), Bunnik, Netherlands Feb 24, 2008 Bottled. Aroma has peach and orange/mandarine, some yeast, bit vinous. Muddy, orange coloured with a thin, off-white head. Taste is bitter, very fruity, bit sweet with yeast. Bitter, dry palate. Quite full bodied. nightrider (370), encinitas, California, USA Feb 24, 2008 Poured a dark gold copper color with a thin off white head.Smells of bread, alcohol slight sweetness waft nicely. On your palate is a thick syrupy very smooth sensation. Flavor is all about complexity in a great tasty way. Lemon citrus hoppiness; toffee maltiness and rye.The finish is incredibly long and intriguing. Fantastic beer! Taverner (827), San Ramon, California, USA Feb 19, 2008 Very sweet aroma - with a distinct sweet yeasty smell. Pours a golden-to amber in a snifter. The flavor hits you in the face, flat out. There’s everything here: warming alcohol, hoppy bitterness, notes of sour apples and raisins. Ends on a nice IPA-ish bitterness from the hops. Very good! Jukkabro (2983), Tampere, Finland Feb 19, 2008 (Batch #65) Brown-yellow colored, strongly hazy appearance. Little yellow head. Raisins dominate this strong aroma with chocolate, toffee, medium alcohol and some grains. Full bodied, safty palate. Flavor starts with sweetness and added sugar notes, fruits and raisins dominating, hops also with chocolate here. Aftertaste has strong sweetness with rich hops, plenty of everything here. bierkoning (5992), La Tropica, Netherlands Feb 18, 2008 Bottle @ jbrus’s place. Strong vinous aroma with fresh cheese, banana and melon. Syrupy mouthfeel. Strong hopbitter flavor matched with tropical fruit and then returning in the almost oily hopbitter aftertaste. Rather alcoholic, but not annoying. Goodgrief (1147), Middletown, Delaware, USA Feb 18, 2008 Feb. 2007 - Caramel color, big head, lacing. Aroma was caramel and hops. Flavor was strong caramel, big hops. Very similar to Bigfoot, but slightly less sweet, slightly less hoppy fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy Feb 16, 2008 Updated: Jun 8, 20082008-05-09, bottle batch 65, at Ølbaren, 8-5-9-5-17=44 The aroma also has old wood and a touch like cellar, it reminds me of some old house. Excellent mix of caramel (prevaling) and malt flavor, getting chewy if it loses some carbonation. Powerful final, well balanced between caramel, bitterness, alcohol. It’s a democracy, in which the caramel is the prime minister.
2008-02-15, bottle batch 69, 8-5-9-5-17=44 Parallel tasting with Fred from the Wood Beautiful color, red-amber, almost still, with a oily surface and lonely bubbles. It has a strong malty aroma, mature at times, with sweet wood too; the aroma fades out, good but not impressive. It has a medium-strong body, with an excellent malt caramel and toffee flavor, powerful, rich. Strong bitterness, but leaving the scene to the malt, and just a bit of alcohol warmth, to complement it. A state of the art Barley Wine. It’s less complex than the draught that I had, and less impressive than the Fred From the Wood, but still excellent!
2007-01-01, draught at d.b.a., NYC, 9-5-9-5-18=46 Hazy amber color. The aroma is malty, with caramel, but also vinous (winy), very light phenol and glue; raisins and vanilla. Full mouthfeel, full malt flavor, caramel, light toffee, good hopping (European), light wood character, extremely well balanced. In the final the hop is more aromatic and with caramel. Excellent. KimJohansen (6678), Copenhagen V, Denmark Feb 13, 2008 [Bottle @ plan b to Celebrate Claus new Night Club] Hazy orange with tiny off white head. Fruity and hoppy aroma with notes of grapefruit, alcohol and wood. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel, wood, alcohol and powerfull hoppy notes. Ends dry and bitter. Rather vinious. Thanks and congrats Claus!
|