New Holland Pilgrims Dole

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

Serve in Snifter

Rich grain and caramel aroma, grapenuts, and peanuts. Cloudy ochre, thin head. Much more grainy and drier on the palate. Slightly boozy and watery. Certainly a more malt forward barleywine with no wheat character and not terribly well done.

I haven’t cuddled up with a barley wine in a while, and this one did not dissapoint. A very nice dark fruit, sweet malt and aroma. The taste was very similar , but it had a nice bourbon effect happening.

22 ounce bottle into snifter, no bottle code so this is probably over a year old. Pours hazy brick red color with a small light khaki head with good retention that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Some spotty lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of big caramel, molasses, raisin, toasted malt, biscuit, vanilla, wood, light citrus, light fruits, and some spiciness. Very nice aromas with good complexity going on. Taste of big caramel, molasses, raisin, toffee, vanilla, wood, toasted malt, bread, herbal spices, and light wheat. Not much bitterness; with lingering notes of caramel, molasses, light fruits, wood, and spiciness on the finish for a bit. Medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a huge creamy and slick mouthfeel, that drinks super smoothly for being over 11%. Alcohol is extremely well hidden; I am really not noticing much at all on the finish. This was not the flavor profile I was expecting out of a wheatwine, but this is an outstanding brew. Big creamy and lush body; with a very dessert-like flavor profile; without being cloyingly sweet. I would have this again for sure.

Pours a clear amber/brown color with a medium tan head. Aroma has bourbon and vanilla, a bit of candied fruit, caramel. Flavor has lots of bourbon...almost a bourbony burn...some oaky vanilla notes, a hint of brown sugar...boozy. mouthfeel is on the heavier side and the finish is dry, slightly hoppy/bourbony, and warming.

My first wheatwine unless we count one I made and this definitely had a sweet wheaty base with a oak-like tinge even though this wasn’t the oak version. Texture seemed a bit flat like i’d find in an old ale but plenty of flavors which made this a good one.

Pours headless brown with red hues, rimming brown head. Vanilla and caramel, oaked, brown sugar. Sweet caramel and brown sugar, banana, chocolate and apple, mild alcohol. Drinkable. Solid.

bottle... medium amber a bit watery, light tan head... the aroma is weak, a light caramel but not much going on... tastes ok, nothing special, very forgettable

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Sweet aroma of caramel malts, dark fruits, oak, and some alcohol. Flavor is sweet up front from the caramel malts and dark fruits. Finish is of oak and plenty of warming.