Malt River Olde Grumpy Barley Wine

Formerly brewed at Malt River Brewing
Style: Barley Wine
Latham, New York USA

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: JUN 24, 2004 Cask at Brewtopia ’04 Deep amber color with a restrained head. Aroma of malt laced with vanilla. The flavor is smooth, malty with dried fruit, but needs more intensity.

Oale golden ale with a light white head. Very faint raisin aroma. Alcohol warmth is not balnced with an unpleasnat pungeant taste. Very thin boring barley wine.

One of my favorite styles but this is not one of my favorite beers. A bit too sweet for my liking and way too think. A bit more carbonation would have worked. It tasted too much like honey with almost the same consistancy.

Brewtopia 2004: On cask: Clear orange with a frothy head. Alcohol aroma with some port notes. Ends dry, and almost tastes like an old ale.

Brewtopia’04. On cask. Sweet, juicy fruit malty nose. Hints of OH. Flavor is a bit boozy, some vanilla, dried apples, mango(?). Not as thick or soft on the palate as I’d like but somewhat thin feeling...could use more carbonation or fuller body.

Tasted in NYC. Tasted at Brewtopia 04. Amvber brown colour and golden colour. Taste is of brandy and port wine. Fairly thin consistency but a pretty good finish.

UPDATED: JUN 29, 2004 cask at Brewtopia, Ok nose fruity medicine. Copper orange color. Apple, carmel,vanilla flavors. Kinda syrupy but thinner overall. Surprised thay said its 9 plus percent. Just ok

cask at brewtopia - to me, this beer tasted like malty medication, like something your grandmother would give you as a curative for some anachronistic condition that has long been dismissed by medical science, like the "vapours" - patent medicine, yes, beer?

Caramel, toffee, butter, honey malt (H); flowery hops (M); vanilla, cask wood aromas. Smells very warm and sweet. Deep golden body. Moderately sweet flavor becomes a heavily sweet, lightly bitter finish. Even though the taste is very sweet, the flavor comes across as being very soft…the beer is never cloying. Medium body, creamy texture, flat carbonation. The bottom line is: flavor is lacking because of its softness.

(Brewtopia04 -- cask) Clear amber body with small off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some orange, grapefruit. Taste is medium sweet, orange, caramel. Finishes with a medium alcohol burn. Medium-full body. Nice sipping beer.