Perennial Heart of Gold

Brewed by Perennial Artisan Ales
Style: Barley Wine
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in Snifter

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Smell is like a tropical fruit syrup...almost like a can of pineapple. The flavor is sweet and carmely. Some tropical fruit comes through in the flavor. Great body, full but not syrupy. Burnt sugar and with a nice acidity. Unique beer and very enjoyable.

Clear amber pour. Whitish head. Aroma is sweet, brown sugar, sweet corn. Flavor is sweet, caramel, light booze, syrup. Nice.

Bottle. Pour is deep rich reddish brown with a thin ring of white foam. Aroma starts with a rye-like spicy sweet malt with hints of alcohol, light spice, light brown sugar, and a hint of brandy-soaked fruit. Flavor also starts with a rye-like malt which melds into a light sweet alcohol note followed by light fruity sweetness with notes of orange, light mulling spice, and a hint is apple. This is really good. A little hot but not overwhelming at all. Great winter warmer.

25.4 oz bottle. Murky orange brown with white frosting. Nose is white grape, orangeade and light grass. Tingly, almost sparkling, a lively counterpart to the sticky, coating mouthfeel. Taste is caramel, wheat, key lime and tangerine peel. Certainly the best wheatwine i’ve had avoiding the pastiness of most others. The hopping adds perfect bitter balance but also accentuates the sweet citrus. Reminded me of Behemoth; delicious.

Capped 750 from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours hazy copper with a creamy/bubbly beige head. Aroma is dark fruit with a hint of phenol. Med body. Phenolics are a bit stronger in the flavor, and the dark fruit is good with that. Heat detectable but not bothersome. Finishes just on the dry side. I keep thinking brown sugar is present, but it could be the dark fruit. Pretty tasty ale.

Bottle. Pours a deep slightly hazy amber golden with a big frothy off white head. Aroma is very nice sweet cake and pineapple character, caramel, very nice fruity notes. Flavor starts sweet and cakey, again plenty of that pineapple character along with some other tropical fruits with some wheat finishing a bit doughy and hints of some darker fruits. Medium to medium full body and a moderate carbonation. Nice beer

On draft at the brewery. Pours cloudy orange with a very thin head. Aroma is sweet malts, spice, wheat and fruits. Flavor is wheat, caramel malts and tropical fruits. Medium bodied and moderate carbonation. Has a nice wheat finish to this beer.

Here’s a tasty one. I love wheat wines and this is a pretty good one. Massive pineapple, seems like a lactose sweetness but It could be something else completely with crystal wheat?, lightly tart, light hop bitterness that adds nice backing, thinner and easy drinking, hides the 10% wonderfully. Nice job.

750 ml bottle poured a clear orange amber with a large lasting amber head. Aromas of wheat, carmel, fruittiness and light spice. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of wheat, carmel, light banana and a hint of spice with a smooth lingering carmel finish.

Bottle shared by alexsadad06. Poured yellow orange color with an average white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy wheat and alcohol aroma. Moderate to heavy smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet flavor to medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met with a complex beer.