Moylans Old Blarney Barley Wine

Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: Barley Wine
Novato, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours deep red with a thin, dissipating white head. Aroma is vanilla, dark fruit, alcohol, caramel, spice, herbs, tough of cocoa. Taste is vanilla, alcohol, very dry, bitter lemon peel; big bitter citrus and touch of cocoa finish. Thin lacing; chewy.

Bottle shared at The Kernel, London. This bottle was aged for about two years. Pours clear brown with a big, yellow-beige foam. Big toasty toffee nose, bread, caramel, pine. Big sweet flavor, good balance, mellow alcohol, good hop presence still, pine, light earth, toasty bread, toffee, brown sugar. Full bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. Nice and sweet to finish with mellow warmth, toasty malts, toffee, light coffee, toasted bread, brown sugar, light toasty leaves. Great balance throughout. Graceful barley wine.

Hazy red colour. Boozy aroma with a real barley and cornchip aroma. sweet brown sugar and cereal. Whiskey palate more cereal and a hint of bitterness and a sweeter finish. It’s barley wine.

Brilliant looking beer. Reddish amber colour. Crystal clear with a delicious looking white head and lace. Syrup malt aroma with fruit berry hints. Full bodied beer, packed full of flavour. Meaty ale. Fruit, malt with a hoppy tang. oily finish. very tasty beer. Love it.

22oz bottle. Pours a clear mahogany with slightly red beige head that doesn’t really last long. Smells like barley wine; that unmistakable mixture of wood, fruit and burnt caramel. Solid but nothing special in the category. Pretty thick on the palate with less fruit than the nose would suggest. Pleasantly warming although a good slug burns a bit.

From a 650ml bottle on 20/7/2012. Pours a deep brown with a small head. Has a lovely strong aroma of caramel and toffee, along with some brown sugar. Tastes like you’d expect from the aroma, with masses of sweet caramel, toffee and brown sugar, with some black tea, spices, hints of stone fruits, and a big lingering hop bitterness. The texture is creamy and the carbonation a little higher than typical for the style. This is an excellent, hoppy barley wine.

Pours a murky caramel brown with one finger of creamy beige tan head. Nose shows rich dextrinous malt with lots of caramel and brown sugar. Light oxidation and musty/papery grain. Big herbal component, almost like tea leaves. Sharp flavor, bitter and slightly astringent. Not too clean, oxidized to a degree. Some sweetness, cut by a super prominent bitterness. Medium full body with a harsh palate.

650ml bottle . Great aroma that fils the nose sweet toffee notes. Oily brown colour and strong flavor that sits well in the mouth.

Bomber pours a clear dark amber color with a khaki head and a little sticky lacing. Aroma has lots of molasses, some caramel malts and noticeable fruits and nuts. Taste is Initially sweet with a nutty and slightly dry finish (which is the only place I can notice the hops). Body is medium without much carbonation. Texture is slightly oily. Alcohol is well hidden, so this was a fun one to drink. Not as great as a couple of other Moylan’s brews I’ve tried and not my favorite barleywine, but well worth a try. I’ll try this one again.

3rd October 2009
Bottle from a Las Vegas liquor store. Hazy dark amber beer. Thin white head. Semi soft and semi dry palate. Light on it’s toes! Typical barleywine. A little salty malt, hop bitterness. Trace of licorice. Drinkable.