Marin Old Dipsea Barleywine Bourbon Barrel (Brett)

Brewed by Marin Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Larkspur, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle at the Shenandoah Throwdown. Pours a lightly hazy brown with a thin white head. Light funky and faint vanilla. Light chocolate. The brett on here is very faint. More vanilla and bourbon and a bit of booze on the finish.

Bottle shared by John, thanks! Poured a cloudy reddish brown with a brown head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma was full of sweet grain, caramel, light fruit and bourbon. Flavor had growing sweet grain and caramel with a bit of light fruit and bourbon. Didn’t really notice any brett characteristics, but still enjoyed the beer.

Bottled. A hazy dark amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, brettanomyces, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of bourbon, wood, alcohol, malt, caramel, and brettanomyces, leading to a dry finish.

bottle at papsoe tasting. clar dark red amber, smooth light yellow head. wild yesaty bretty aroma, red berries, malts. flavor is sweet malty, faint brett, red fruits, caramel, a bit too sweet.

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with a small tan head. The aroma is brett and bourbon. Medium mouthfeel with caramel and fruity malt. Easy to drink a very complex Barleywine from Marin.

Dark, mohagany wood stained transparency. Nose is a tart experience with some candy sugar highlights and a vinious background. Flavors combine a somewhat chalky barleywine character with a lively brett influence. Nothing comes out as wow, but it all fits together without creating any issues. Hoppy bitterness in the finish but beforehand its pretty mellow and whatnot. Not offensive but not wow.

UPDATED: JUN 18, 2010 Bottle, thanks to bman1113vr, Muddy brown pour with bubbly foam, woody, sweet maple and whiskey aroma, flavors of whiskey, sour caramel, oak and some heat on the finish

Bottle from the jug in san fran... Pours a nice rich dark brown with less than one finger of tan head. Smells like it is infected, or a sour, whichever is your poison. Hope i am not disappointed in this. Not a huge fan of sours, and this smells like that. Distinct sour cherries. Taste is considerably different from the nose, significantly different. Slight bourbon, nice oak, nice barleywine...just the tiniest hint of sour...just enough to make it interesting. Barely present. Oddly enough, as it sits here, the nose has pulled chameleon on me, can’t say I have had a beer like this...as the head goes down, the sour nose is completely gone... Now the nose is bourbon and oak...quick swirl, and sour dominates again. Transformer beers are awesome! Lol.

Shenandoah Throwdown, 22oz bottle, thanks kmweaver. Clear red-brown body with small beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, Brett, bourbon, some cherry. Taste is moderately sweet, vanilla/Bourbon, some chocolate, cherry. Sticky medium body, low carbonation.

Pours a hazy dark plum color with a half finger light beige head that quickly settles into a thin ring.  Minimal spotty lacing. Sweet, slightly boozy aroma with a decent barrel presence countered by leathery malt, toffe and dark fruit.  Hints of dry oak, bourbon, vanilla and spice followed by notes of dark cherry,  plum and grape. Medium bodied with a strong barrel presence that slightly overpowers the other notes.  Lots of dry oak and alcohol flavor but not much heat, vanilla or sweet bourbon.  Could use more body and bourbon flavor. The barleywine  flavor is overpowered with subtle leathery malt, toffee and caramel and there’s also a strong dark fruit presence.  Becomes more complex but as it warms but is still lacking in bourbon flavor.  It is becoming more dry and spicy but still not balanced enough.