Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine

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!

Brown in color and cloudy with a decent sized beige head. Aroma is of caramel, spices, malt and toffee with a good hop bitterness. Taste is of malt, caramel, alcohol, and hops. Slightly dry palate.

On draught. At sharp edge creek house immense place! Rogue old crusty S2L3F1T3O4: Nice thick head on a light clear root beer colored brew. Head fades to a fine silky visual experience. Smell is a little off, not attractive. Sweet but repulsive in a kinda digested food way. It is perfume sweet too. Rather strong on the palate, coming across sweet. Wew,; perfume is carrying over to the taste. Big alky impact. Tongue big bitter palate. Way too much of a shocking experience for this lager lover, ooooh miiiiiy. Quite rude and difficult, at the same time,; it’s on style. Virtually flat, or at lest that’s all I can feel with these flavors. Big long medicine linger, will not try again.

Bottled in 2002! Was scared but curious to see what 7 years of aging would do to this beer. I have never seen a pour like this. It was thick, brown, in a sedimented, layered murkiness like mud water. The aging has actually pushed the alcohol aroma and flavor onto the back burner (because last time I had this there was too much booze flavor). Almost no carbonation. The alcohol burn is replaced by thick amounts of caramel malt, molasses, mild hops, prunes and a slight hint of booze in the both the nose and flavor. The finish was bitter sweet. Not bad but better barley wines out there.

On tap at Toronado for Barleywine fest ’09. Reddish-brown color with a small head. Aroma is dark fruits, sweet malt, and piney hops. Flavor is more of the same, hops characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. Full mouthfeel and alcohol on the finish.

Toronado Barleywine Fest. Pours dark reddish amber, malty, molasses, dark fruits, caramel.

Presentation was good, first in the ceramic bottle and then in the glass it poured a ruby red colour. At first all I could notice was the bitterness in the taste - wanted more malt coming through but as it warmed some chocolate notes present on the front palate then some dried fruit, don’t exactly notice the alcohol.

The look is cloudy, reddish murky color, ok light tan head. The smell is fruity, alcohol, molasses, malts, prunes, and raisans. The taste is dark and dried fruits, malts, molasses, alcohol, some vegtables.