North Coast Old Stock Ale

[Vintage 2002] A red beer with no head. Both the flavor and aroma is sweet and dominated by cowberries.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Dark brown with a ruby-red hue. Nice ligh tbrown head that collapses rather quickly though. Clear and filtered. Dry, vinous nose. Complex, full notes of dried fruit and an oaky, wooden touch. Some sweetness with a dry, bitter finish - but far from the extreme. Incredibly solid and chewy beer - the kind you can enjoy sip by sip for hours almost. A lovely Barley Wine. 060605

Mahogny coloured. Big malty beer. Sweet with dried fruit aroma. Very bitter. Very good.

12 fl oz bottle, 2004. Pours slight cloudy deep amber/light brown with a diminished off-white head. Solid overripe and dried fruit aroma, into wineous notes. Liqourice like flavoured with a solid caramel malt base. Growing bitterness into the finish. Very smooth fruity note lingering inbetween the fullbodied brew. Nicely balanced and smooth into the finish with an intense and slowly declining flavour.

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
[ Vintage 2005 ]. Light unclear medium to dark amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, milk chocolate, dark dryed fruits, moderate raisin, plum, date, wood, light notes of vanilla in the finish. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft and smooth, finish is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090111]

Bottled (2006, 13.25 %). Lovely ruby reddish colour mixed with a bit of copper. Small beige head. Aroma of alcohol, caramel and sweet malts. A bit glueish also. Flavour is plum, biting alcohol and malts. Some roast and caramel in aftertaste. Too strong alcohol in it, otherwise good. 7 3 6 3 13

Bottled (11.4 % 2001 vintage, drank March 2007 @Oliver Twist, Stockholm). Hazy dark rubyish brown colour, small beige head. Aroma is oak, plum, mild roast, wineous and slightly vanillaish. Flavour is wood, plum, dark fruits, dark sugar and slight vanillaish notes in Finish. This one has aged very well! 8 4 8 4 16.

Bottle. Hoppy aroma. Nice, peppery, malty flavour with some bonbon. Dark chestnut colour. Good body.

Red colour with a small beige head. Spicy aroma with notes of bananas and alcohol. Powerful sweet spicy flavour with notes of alcohol and bananas. Good barley wine.