3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours clear orange with white head. Aroma has booze, wet cardboard, citrus, and some earth. An oxidized boozy mess, maybe a bad tap? Not sure, this is a tentative rating until I can try it again to confirm.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
2007 vintage. Pours clear dark copper color with tan head. Caramel aroma, some vanilla and wood. Light smoke flavor and a hint of sweet malts with some vanilla and oak. A little musty. Medium body with mild carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Orange pour with minimal head. Aroma of wet dog. Awesome taste of dark fruit, caramel, and smoky oak.
0.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 2/20
Hazy orange amber, thick bubbly beige head, Sticky medium body, high carbonation.
Aroma: very bright citrus, some sweet malt, and a bit of mustiness.
Taste: bight citrus and apricot, lots of musty funk, some hop bitterness.
Something is wrong here, but there nothing to give it away as spoiled, just bad. I had a 5 gallon batch of homemade barleywine that tasted like this last year, and i poured it out behind the shed. ’nough said.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
sample from the bottle @ Hotoberfest in Atlanta on 10/2/10. deep orange pour with a slim off white head. slight oak nose with some caramel. dark fruits over the mouth with layers of oak. big malts dominate. slight bitter finish with more barrel notes on the finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
10/2/10. Bottle. Mild sweet aroma with brown sugar and dark fruits. Sweet fruity flavor with a hint of tannic oak. A bit on the light side.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a dark golden color with a respectable head. You can definitely smell the hops on this one and maybe a bit of fruit. This beer is nice and malty. A bit sweet, but with enough hop flavor to cut it. You can definitely taste a bit of the brandy, but it doesn’t distract or distract from the rest of the flavor of the beer. However, this beer does have a bit of an alcohol taste. Definitely worth a try if you are looking for a beer with a fair amount of flavor.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
What an interesting barley wine. Not quite sure how to describe it. Taste is full of bourbon from the barrels its aged it. Drinks nice but a bit overpowering. Very very malty.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bomber from Oak Tree (2009). Pours copper/amber with a foamy 2 finger off-white head. Aromas of light stone and perhaps oak. Full bodied with foamy carbonation. Flavor is like spiced orange with some hop bitter and heavy caramel. It finishes with a clearly oak aspect. Then astringency occurs. Pretty impressive.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Viscous amber body, with a quickly evanescing head. Easy oaky and fruity nose with woodiness and reserved vanillins infringing upon the picture. Favor begins flat, though oaky woodiness grows in prominences and jiggles about with pear fruit nuances. Not a smack-you-over-the-head barleywine. This is rather mellowed and drinkable, but it just does not stand out.
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