 frankenkitty (1904), Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Feb 14, 2006
2004 Vintage Pours a near-opaque, rich ruby/vermillion with nigh a head except for a thin, white halo. Juicy, caramel aroma, mostly malts with a lick of alcohol and plenty of dark fruits and caramel. (Intoxication intensifies exponentially as it warms.) "Oh my," I actually proclaim as I taste this one. Rich and wooden with the alcohol seriously penetrating, the flavor also finds vinous notes, deep veins of caramel and sweet baked goods... it’s like being a child again, finding delicious treats in the strangest of places! A thick, syrupy, warming palate rates a "4" until I take into account the soft shroud of drunkeness that blankets me. Perfect.
Gene, you can keep your Old Horizontal... I’ve found a BarleyWine worthy of my time ("floor-malted Maris-Otter Malt" my ASS).
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gunnar (633), Sandnes, Norway
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Feb 7, 2010 Bottled at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours dark amber with a huge head.
Aroma and taste are plums, raisin, malt, yeast, caramel and hops. Excellent long light bitter finish.
HenrikSoegaard (4526), Randers, Denmark
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Feb 7, 2010 Bottle. 2009 vintage. Creamy off-white fair mostly deminishing head. Light amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light sweet and bitter vinius flavor. Average moderate bitter cloying finish. Very alcoholic. Oily palate. Boring Barley wine.
waltersrj (101), Washington, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Feb 4, 2010 Nuts, dried citrus fruits, candy, and barley in the nose. The taste is similar with a good amount of hops and barley balancing eachother. The pour was a deep mahogany with an off white head. Interesting beer.
ttutony (129), Galveston, Texas, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Feb 2, 2010 2008 vintage. Deep mahogany color in the glass. Complex aromas of nuts, dried fruit, caramel, and sweet malt. Weighs heavy on the palate, probably a function of the massive 12.5% ABV. Still, the alcohol is well concealed within the rich maltiness of this beer.
abemorsten (234), Randaberg, Norway
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Jan 30, 2010 2009 vintage. Murky orange brown with a large frothy tanned head. Aroma of dried fruits, bubble gum, vanilla and alcohol. Taste is sweet and heavy alcoholic. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. This is heavy stuff!
(Bottle@Olympen, 23.1.2010)
dwaggs2 (584), Lee’s Summit, Missouri, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 29, 2010 2008 Bottle. Poured a cloudy amber color with hardly no head. Aroma was molasses, candy, and malts. Medium sticky body. Sweet flavor, with molasses and other sugars. Some very mild bitters in the finish. Very good beer.
Teege (205), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 26, 2010 Draft at redlight redlight. Pours a dark amber with a tight light tan head. Strong notes of brown sugar and molasses as well as a lot of booziness on the nose. The flavor is sweet and sharp with a definite pungency. Some liquorice in the aftertaste. Really not very good until it warms, but then it is very nice.
redlight (1562), Winter Park, Florida, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 25, 2010 2009 draft @ redlight redlight. Very rich caramel aromas with spicy earthy hops with hints of cherry and vanilla. Pours a reddish amber with a thick white head. Caramel and dark fruits, figs and dates, with hints of molasses with an earthy bitterness. Very nice this year.
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