Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

RnH: ’08 batch: loved this brew, would love to age it... "over the top all around... nose is like sticking your head in the barrel! Deep amber, red/brown, thin head film yet great dry, off white lacing, tons of dark fruits, cooked sugars, esters, heat, sweet, awesome, definitely fermented prunes."

Draft. 5 oz flight. Pours reddish amber with a tan, pillowy head. Aroma of vanilla, citrus, pepper, clove, barley, bread and hints of earthy hops. Medium bodied with a sweet, clean mouthfeel. Bold, strong finish. Great barley wine to close out a great tasting at Teresa’s.

22oz - I try to like barley wines. They smell great, look great too. Then I have to taste them, and for me, sometimes more is just more. There’s too much going on for me. Too sweet, too strong, too much.

Twenty ’Aught -9 pours coppery with a thin white head. Aroma is malt and pineapple hops and lots of both. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, pine and citrus hops, and alcohol.

Twenty ’Aught -9 Probably should have laid this down for awhile... Pours a deep amber red. Off white creamy head. Thick lacing. Some aroma of malt and some spices. Pretty good hop bite, probably would have mellowed if i had let it age a bit, but then i like ’em hoppy. Pretty good, pretty balanced if on the hoppy side, wish i could have kept a couple, oh well, live now! good stuff! drinkable now!

22oz bomber twenty’ aught-8. Pours a clear red with a medium fizzy fine white froth. Aroma is quite oxidized but still very pungent, sweet caramel and salty piney hops, fridge/ambrosia, citrus and toasted sugars. Really bright sweet sugary taste, salty, a sweet salty sour metallic twang, like fermenting overripe peaches, toasted caramel, ambrosia, a bit boozy towards the finish, fuselly. Medium/full bodied, lots of fizzy fluffy carbonation, fluffy viscous. This really tastes like a beach breeze wine-cooler thingy.

Whew! This stuff is to strong for me! Booze was all in my mug! At first the hops are flowing, I am happy, then POW!!! Booze.........wife loved it

twenty’aught-8 version, so didn’t last long. 9.7% this year!. cloudy amber, thick small brown head with good lacing. sweet malty, caramelly, hoppy, a little towards "old" hops, but stll rather fresh for a BW. flavor is malty, accented by flowery hops, and a nice dose of bitterness, also caramelly sweetness, faint old beer taste too. ends sweet and malty. aftertaste is dry sweet and malty. even though it’s not that dry in the flavor, you can feel the dryness in the aftertaste. lots of everything in this one.