Left Hand Oak Aged Widdershins

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

A Sim rate (EBF Night of the Barrels): Smells sweet with very obvious whisky. It’s bitter and overly sugary. OK, but not great.

Pours a clean copper amber with one finger of off white head. Rich and dextrinous nose with lots of caramel and some vanilla and wood. Tad fishy and metallic on the flavor. Rich and malt forward flavor, toffee and brown sugar. Meh, medium body and warming finish.

Tallahassee, Fl - on tap at Fermentation Lounge. Pours a dark copper with a nice sticky off-white head that leaves a nice trail of lacing. Aroma has some sweet accents with a brown sugar background, some molasses and a touch of brandy. Flavor is full bodied with some chocolate, cherry, roasted notes. a hint of vanilla, nice boozy notes and a sweet back end of dates and raisins. Nice belly warming thick mouthfeel.

On tap at Petrol Station. Pours a clear dark honey brown with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is full of sweet grains with a hint of smoke and a backing oaky note. Flavor starts full of sweet grains and caramel with some backing oak and a hint of smoke.

Pours a gorgeous red mahogany with tight beige head. Woody, vanilla nose along with the heavy malt. Incredibly well balanced and drinkable barley wine. Very nice English hop character lasts even through the wood. The only criticism is that the barrel is just a little to dominant, but overall, a very enjoyable beer.

Bottle 750ml.

[ Vintage 2007 ]. [ Trade by fiulijn ]. Clear medium to dark amber colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bread, caramel, ripped fruit, wood, ripped dried fruit. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, ripped fruit, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110930]

Bottle @ Morten minus Peter smagning, Ulfborg. 2007 vintage. Pours dark copper with a small white head. Sweet nose of fruit, caramel and alcohol. Smooth and full bodied. Sweet . . nearly cloying.

Bottle from 2007. Hazy dark amber with small tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit, sweet and toffee. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, hops, sweet, little rip fruit and a little bitter.