Ruby copper red with a tan head. Nice smoked ganja bud aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Good flavor is mainly roasty nutty malts, then some caramel sweetness. Nice hoppy bitterness to finish.

On draft, San Clemente. Hazy orange-tinged gold, smallish head. Served a bit too cold, was a bit harsh at that point but got better. Unmistakable as a BW with decent malt presence and a bit more hop bite than expected. Drinkable and not showing the alcohol, well done.

This is a much lighter colored barleywine than most. It pours a hazy gold, with very little head. Slight detection of hops in the nose, w/ some malty sweetness. the flavor is a of a big barley wine. The alcohol is well hidden. Had it on draft at Pizza Port San Clemente

Pours lighter than most barleywines (a soft amber color) which made me excited to try this one. Very little head but enough to be adequate with good lacing. Aroma has a nice hoppiness about it with the typical barleywine malt backbone. Unfortunately, the flavor did't quite live up to the billing up to this point in the tasting process. I expected more hop bite but the caramel maltiness dominated IMO. Body was decent. I had hoped for more.

Kirk strikes again with another fantastic beer for San Clemente. Alcohol masked very nicely by the malty sweetness. Keeping true to So Cal, this stuff has the hop bite that we have come to enjoy from Pizza Port.