3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
old amateur rating: Hazy dark amber color with fine off-white head. Fruity orange aroma. very balanced barleywine.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ Fairbar. 2006 vintage. Pours amber with no head, just a small white ring along the glasssides. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, dark fruit, plums, light hops. Taste is roasted malt, caramel, fruit, some hops, booze. Medium to full body, low carbonation. 141010
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2006 Bottle, from trade with Dedollewaitor. Pours a hazy deep nougat brown body with a small, but present film of off-white retention covering the surface. Nose is prunes, caramel, wood and alcohol-fueled cough syrupy licorice, with hints of red berries and...cooked rice? Powerful and nice, anyway. Taste is crisp wooden notes flanked with cough syrupy caramel up front. Then, prunes and alcohol takes the palate comfortably down and settles with some licorice, hints of chocolate and a hoppy, bitter finish. A fine barley wine which I suspect has become better with age. Perhaps it would have reached a higher score if released a few years later...but who wants to wait forever to release their beers, right? ;-)
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Malzig-oxidierter Antrunk, in dem nach kurzer Zeit Chili-Schokoladennoten vorhanden sind, die zum Teil auf der Oxidation beruhen. Im Mittelteil deutlich nach Lakritz, süßlich, der Alkohol ist erstaunlich zurückhaltend. Herb-malziger-schokjoladiger Abgang. Die Ocidation stört merklich. 7/8/8/8/11/8
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 180ml @ home
Pours dark cloudy amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has notes of alcohol, malt and hops. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear dark amber with a beige head. Aroma is sweet malty, caramel, hoppy and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Bitter and dry finish with loads of alcohol. 220107
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark amber, brown colored brew. Aroma has caramel, dried fruits and sweetness. Flavor is sweet, caramel, some dried fruits and chocolate. Grainy.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
25 cl bottle. Pours a clear dark amber body with a small frothy beige head. The nose is thickly malty with toffee and a slight bit of sherry like oxidation. Fairly hoppy with some resiny and wintergreen notes. The hops are pretty mellow on the flavor, showing off a nicely complex malt base that seems to benefit from the light oxidation. Finishes with a very light alcohol warmth. Mouthfeel is pretty full but really well attenuated, leaving no trace of stickiness. Nice soft carbonation. Nice beer, I’d like to try a really fresh bottle though to see how the hops impact it.
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