Left Hand Oak Aged Widdershins

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

Serve in Snifter

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Pours clear copper, with a one-finger beige head, very good clinging lacing. Grassy and woody aroma, with raisins, toast, vanilla, and brandy. Medium-full body, smooth, zesty, crisp, lightly dry. Medium sweetness up front, grass, earth, and floral flavors, with biscuit, grape, butter, grapefruit notes, warming. Some milt tartness kicks in midpalate, lasting mild bitter finish, with more floral notes. Delicate and grassy.

Draft at Jerry’s. Light copper with fair, creamy, beige head / Sweet, syrupy nose of malt and citrus / Medium to full body, sweet and syrupy but with good hop balance, with some heat and a hint of bitterness on the finish / Flavors of burnt sugar, brown sugar, orange, apricot, grapefruit, toast, and oak / This is sweet and syrupy style if not my favorite, but it is a good example.

On tap at bevarage source, dark amber color with nice khaki head, aroma of dark fruits and toffee malts. Taste is nice sweet malts with figs and raisins, not gettin much oak in it but it is there with some vanilla undertones. Very creamy rich palate, a great one from left hand.

On tap at Pizza Paradiso in Dupont Circle. Served in a snifter. Pours a moderate copper color with a very thin off-white head and not much in the way of lacing. The nose carries oak, oak, and more oak. As it warms, I get a bit more oak. Other than that, a touch of semi-sweet malt. It’s not terrible, just horribly one-dimensional. Other than the oak, there was a touch of caramel and sweetness. I’d rather not have this again.

Clear copper of color with a small white head. An aroma of sweets, caramel, bread, metallic, raisins and port. A flavor of caramel, hops, metallic and oak.

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]