Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine

Taster – Beveridge Place Barleywine Bacchanal – Seattle, WA
Aroma: Weak aroma with a very light caramel, and hops nose.
Appearance: Amber in color, clear with a thin head.
Flavor: This beer missed the mar. The sweetness was missing the flavor.
Palate: Dry not very good finish.
Overall: This needs to go back and brew more with sweeter malts and a longer sitting time to really get the flavors of a aged brew. 2009 batch.

750ml Ceramic Bottle: Aroma of resin, malts, hops, and hints of toffee and caramel. Poured deep deep amber/brown in color with a small, rocky beige head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Sparkling. A few particles throughout. Very good to excellent lacing. Lightly sweet, medium to heavily bitter flavor. Tastes of hops, resin, caramel, malts, slight chocolate, and a hint of wood. Medium to full body. Thickish, viscous, sticky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Bitter, hoppy, resinous, caramel finish is slightly dry. 11.5%ABV is very well hidden.

Sample from ceramic swing top bottle at Coles in Buffalo. Pours deep amber brown with a beige head. Some sweet malt aroma with a touch of hops. The flavor has sweet, almost toasty malts, with lingering floral hop notes and a rather bitter finish. Not bad.

02 12oz. Pour is deep ruby brown with small off white head. Aromas of sweet plum, oxidized hops, burnt sugar, and some oak. Flavor is very mellow and wonderful with sweet fruit, biting hops, some spice, and a rounded full finish. Wow, aging did some great things to this one.

Appearance: Ruby red with a medium white head. Aroma: Vanilla, pineapple, dark fruits too and alcohol. Flavour: tropical fruits, vanilla, malt and cinnamon. Nice.

2007 XS Bottle. Hazy dark ruby red with a finger of soft off white head. Aroma of caramels, raisins, pit fruits and toasted malts. Some thinning alcohol is present. The taste is a solid barleywine, raisins, caramel, brown sugar, a warming alcohol and light grassy hoppiness in the finish.

On tap at the Green Dragon. Moderate brown color with a reddish tint to it that comes out in direct light. A sweet aroma of toffee with some nut and currants. Fruity flavor with nice toffee and caramel, a solid alcohol burn and a hop finish. Solid brew, though extremely overpriced.

0.65 l ceramic swing top bottle (vintage 2008) at Stockholm Beer Festival 2008. Hazy reddish brown color. Sweet, caramelly, toffeish, nutty, fruity and honeyish aroma. Bittersweet, fruity, caramelly and nutty flavor with notes of cantaloupe. Very full bodied and warming. Very bitter but sweetness back it up well. Very tasty!