North Coast Old Stock Ale

Bottle. Pours a dark amber with an off-white head. Nice full aroma of sweet barley, some alcohol is present. Flavor is good, but the alcohol is quite present. I enjoyed it.

Bottle from Mega Liquor Warehouse... Pours dark mahogany with a thin head..Smell is dark fruits and alcohol...Flavor is caramel and rassberries with a lingering bitterness.. Tons of carbonation.. Good candidate to put in the closet (or a barrel) and forget about.

2009 vintage (wait? nah.) ENORMOUS head. Sweet aroma. Strong, sweet, malty, surprisingly smooth flavor. Lots of alcohol.

(bottle - 12 oz - 2008 vintage) Dark copper color with a creamy tan head. Aroma is big and sweet. Tons of sweet malts with a nice hop undertone. Flavor is sweet and malty at the start with a strong alcohol bite. Middle is very malty with some hints of caramel. Finishes with a strong and burning alcohol presence and some bitter hops. Extremely potent. This one could take some good aging.

Clearish maroon with absolutely no head whatsoever. Very very sweet, without any hops to balance the malt. Not much of a finish. Pass.

Nice aroma of bread and sweet. Cloudy dark amber with a nice head. Flavor was sweet molasses with an alcohol bite. Finish was crisp and clean. My bottle was dated 2007. I’m going to have one more and let the other two age a year or so.

On tap at the Vintage Estates, nice place. Not much aroma, does not come across as volatile. Color is darker than a lager, more brown or orange in there. Strong, almost like smoother whisky in flavor. Decent carbonation for a barley wine. For 12+ abv, this stuff hides the alky well. Medicinal at times. I think I’m getting dizzy. Finish is somewhat cough medicine linger. One of the smotther barley wines I’ve had.

Flaske: Fantastisk duft af karamel, portvin, nødder og rosiner. Mudret brun øl med et meget lille skumhoved. Diskret karbonering. Flot lagret kompleks smag af portvin og rosiner. Virkelig en treat. Årgang 2005, drukket dd.