New Holland Existential Hopwine

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Holland, Michigan USA

Molasses and old hops on the nose. Pours a dark golden amber. Citrus hops with heavy malts, i taste some age on it, i’d say more of the barley wine is coming out. Good beer though.

Foggy honey brown. Frothy head leaving nice lacing. Lacking in aroma but some hops. Medium bodied, nice piny bitterness. Hoped more like an IPA than a barley wine. Good.

Bottle pours a crystal clear red amber with a small head leaving a lace ring and decent lace. The aroma is hops. The flavor is full on hop resin with a monster malt backbone, almost vineous. The palate is rich and somewhat still. The alcohol is well hidden. This is a monster brew that is well constructed. I like it well enough.

Re-Rate. Fresh 2008 bottle. Same as before but with nice subtle citrus and flower hops. Flavor is still wonderful and sticky sweet but with a little orange candy. Full bodied and oily flat. Very good fresh, much better than when aged. Go figure. [ (Old Rating) 8/3/8/3/17=3.9 Vintage unknown but at least a year or two. Nice malt, caramel, honey and dried fruit. Sweet and sticky. Very good brew but not the hoppy experience I was led to believe. Oily flat and full bodied. Hopps have subsided and have turned lovely and complex. ]

my 801 beer. When I popped the cap on this the grassey, hops aroma came out. I liked the nice amber orange as I poured it into my duvel glass. The aroma was of hops some malts, alcohol. flavor, did not like the taste of this hops where not good no malt s at all and the alcohol was harsh did not like this at all

a little light bodied for a barleywine, flavor is pretty mellow, not agressivly hoppy or malty. aroma is piney/citrusy.

Bomber: Aroma of sweet citrus and pine needles, hops are definitely present in this brew. The malt characteristic is drowned out by the hops, but a slight back end of malt comes slipping through the brew. Pours a translucent amber color with a thin soapy white film at the top of the glass. Taste is got a really weird mixture of the citrus hops and a more punchier malt note. Some definite almost juicy fruit flavor on the back end. Palate is light with a thick pine lighty coating the tongue. Overall, Strange for a Barley Wine. Hop wine? or IIPA? It’s alright just really hard to put my finger on this one. Cheers!

Bottle with a 10.5%ABV. Small off-white head that mostly diminshes, spotty amounts of lacing, slightly hazy, soft, slow rising carbonation noted, and an amber hue. Nose was citrus, hoppy, pine, malty, and some oranges. Flavor was malty, some caramel, hoppy but not overly so, pine, sweet, oranges and finishes dry. Smooth, dry mouthfeel and medium in body. Quaffable, easy to drink given the style and ABV and worthy of a try.