New Holland Pilgrims Dole

Pour is slightly hazed reddish amber with a thin off white head...smell is yeasty and sweet with molasses and prunes...taste is musty and fruity with dates and raisins and some dirt too...not impressive...

bottle from SAMs wine. I wasn’t expectingmuch but this is a great beer. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was bourbon ba. Huge caramel, bourbon and vanilla notes. Very good.

This is an outstanding beer.Bottle from Three Son’s in Wexford, from an open Tulip Glass (Hommel). Not much head or carbonation, beautiful ruby amber color. Sweet and fragrent, with Grapes, Pinneapple and Mango, but finishes clean. Strong enough so a great use of Wheat and a nice bitter finish.

Clear dull red with a big head. Sticky resinous hop and caramel aroma with toasted bread and citrus. Sweet and candy like in flavor, hoppy with caramel malt. A bit thin in body. Low bitterness. Not exactly a wheat beer by any definition I know of but not too bad.

Dark tea color with no head or even a ring of foam. Biting hops that jump from the glass and alcohol are the first impression. Flavor is also sugar and malt, butter and fruit. This is not a beer for the meek. It grabs the tongue and does some wonderful things to it. This beer is wonderfully complex and a delight to sample. It loses a bit on appearance and feel but other than that this one kicks ass!

Shared at Cornboys Barley Wine Blind. Pours a clear thin watery brown with no head. Aroma was bad...real bad, my notes are telling me it smelled like syrup, alcohol and......urine, ugh. Luckily the flavor didn’t have any urine notes to it. The problem though was the flavor didn’t have much of anything to it, just watery and bland. Yeah I sure didn’t like this one.

Strong alcohol and red wine notes in the aroma. Pours a clear reddish-amber, with a quickly fading off-white head. Strong alcohol notes and flavor on this one. It’s a bit hot. Full mouthfeel, but definitely a sipper. May want to pick some of these up to see if the settle down over time.

Pours a clear dark amber body topped by small beige head. Aroma is sweet, maple syrup, caramel apple and raisin. Flavor is moderately sweet, caramel, fig, raisin maple syrup. Light alcohol burn as it goes down the throat. Medium-full body, sticky texture.