3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
A: Pours a deep shade of brown with a small tan head. No retention or lace noted.
S: Aromas of dark fruit, sour cherries, booze, and light yeast.
T: Lots of dark fruit, mild sourness from the cherries, yeast, and molasses. Hints of booze and vanilla.
M: On the fuller side of body, mild booze in finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
God I love rating a beer where the raters on the page are almost all in the multiple 1000’s. Thanks CaptainCougar for this pour at Woodshop5.0. Big ass barleywine. Nose is caramel and alcohol and cream and spice. Taste is huge!. Sweet with brown sugar, sweet and rich with dark fruit. Great spiciness.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted and slight chocolate malty. Sweet and caramelish with a nice roasted acidic note. Dry and slight phenolic. Dry and roasted malty flavoured into the finish. Smooth and easy.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Thanks to Captain Cougar for bringing this to the Woodshop 5.0 tasting.
Sweet, complex and tasty, this is a very nice beer.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at local gathering. Poured clear reddish brown color with an average frothy brown head that was mostly lasting with excellent lacing. Moderate to heavy toasted malt, wood and dark fruit aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy complex sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate to long duration. My expectations where met by a complex good beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Courtesy of a generous RB at tpd975’s throwdown in December, 2009. Pours a amber to cola brown color with thin off-white head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of bourbon, oak, vanilla, chocolate, cherries, light funk. Flavor is about the same. Medium to full body with a pleasing malty booze finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Poured a dark reddish brown with a wispy beige head. Nose is oak, caramel, cherry, vanilla, light bourbon, and faint funk. Medium body with a slightly watery mouth feel. Flavor is earthy, with notes of caramel, oaky bourbon, vanilla, and dark cherries. Alcohol is well hidden but still it’s warming is felt. Finishes woody.
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Pours pitch black with very slight caramel/mahogany edges and a two finger frothy dark beige head with excellent retentiononly slowly fading into a thick fading cap that coats the glass with soapy chunks of lacing.
Slight vinous tart dark fruit aroma with a lot of roasty dark chocolate malt laying underneath. Very prominent sour dark fruit notes, especially tart cherry, plum and fig. Subtle roastiness with bittersweet dark chocolate, toffee, subtle coffee bean and grape. This beer smells amazingly complex with so many different scents bouncing off of one another.
Slightly dry tart vinous medium body with a prominent silky, roasty chocolate malt character. The vinous dark fruit notes up front(mostly sour dark cherry, grape and plum) are quickly balanced by the slight roasted viscous chocolate malt backbone. Slightly spicy mid palate with more of the oaky vinous dark fruit notes coming through in the finish. Very complex and pretty drinkable considering the complexity.
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