3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Courtesy of Solan. Pours orange-ish copper with thin weak off white head. The aroma is mostly the barrel aged-ness and initially not much else. If I really concentrate I can just get some weak malt sweetness behind the wood and whiskey. The taste starts sweet and sticky then becomes woody and whiskey fortified. The barrel age aspect of the beer just takes too much of the flavor and hides almost all of the barleywine notes. I can just pick up faint dark fruit notes and faint caramel as just a murmur behind the whiskey. This wasn’t nearly as nice as the 2005.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle Thanks to kramer17801 for this one. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Malty alcoholic caramel aroma with hints of dark fruit. Sweet malty dark fruit flavor with hints of alcohol and caramel. Sweet malty finish with a bitter aftertaste.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared by Mike
Pours firey red with no head. No signs of carbonation at all.
Maple, grass, and alcohol in the nose.
Sugary hoppy sweet, and hoppy as all hell.
Syrup and oily mouthfeel. Flat. Medium body. Sweet finish.
I enjoyed this, but I think carbonation would help it.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle provided by ClarkVV and shared with Tom and Brian: Clean amber hue with absolutely no head and some oily legs, pours just like a Whiskey. The aroma has notes of caramel and toffee, fig, apple, apricot, toasted bread, herbs, and vanilla.
The taste starts with a lush syrupy simple sugar and an overall nutty character. Hints of ripened fruit and bread in the middle before heading off towards a old school barleywine finish of light spice and alcohol. The mouth feel is aggressive via the booze but lacked carbonation with may have been a good thing. Not in the same ballpark as the 2005 we had previous.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours out a hazy copper color with a small thin head. Aroma is wood and alcohol, slight sweet malts. Sweet malts up front with an alcohol/bourbon burn. Wood with some slight earthy notes on the finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Had as second last of the night, so a little hazy . copper with little foam nose is as has been said before kinda woody and boozy, flavor is strong alcohol bourbon, vanilla and sweet malts, kinda sticky . not bad
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Goldings hops, Bourbon aroma, a scotch ale sipper more than a barleywine. Alcohol is great and felt.
Bee-aye-2500. Thanks Vaino
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
25 oz bottle. Pours a clear orangish copper with a small fizzy beige head that retains as a thin covering. Lots of fine visible carbonation. The nose is all malt with lots of brown sugar and brittle toffee. Very noticable alcohol vapors and a lighter amount of bourbon. No oxidation here yet. The alcohol and bourbon is a little too harsh still, and combined with the slightly husky and grainy malt, it just doesn’t work too well. Some light brown sugar and lots of alcohol on the finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied without much sugary stickiness, which I liked, but the super hot finish is a turnoff. Nice soft fine carbonation. This was OK, but just way too harsh for already having a year on it. It must have been almost undrinkable fresh. Why release beer that needs 1+ years in the cellar to be halfway decent?
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