Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine

Bottle. Dark brown in color with a nice aroma of hops, fruit, and malt. As far as the taste goes... wow a bit on the bitter side. Nothing like what it smells like. Dry, heavy on the alcohol with only the smallest hint of the fruit that you smell in the aroma.

7oz bottle-A reddish brown body with a nice tan head and an aroma of alcohol and roasted malt. Taste of the same with some caramel and toffee added in. One of my first Barley Wines and still not bad in fact quite tasty. 750ml(2006 ceramic bottle)-Pours a dark amber body with a nice tight off white head. Aroma of sweetness, prunes, caramel, and dark fruit. Taste is of the same with a bit of alcohol coming through. A nice tasting Barley Wine. One of the better products from Rogue.

Scent of hops and alcohol. Pours a dark amber with a long lasting head. Flavor is strong with the warmth of the alcohol hitting quickly. It does have kind of a bitter after taste. The price tag would urge me to look for a better tasting and more economical choice next time.

On tap at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. Actually I’ve had this for many years...always a monster...something that shouldn’t be served as a full pint as it was at Pizza Port, but hey...what a brew. Copper amber...quickly disappearing head. Big rich biting malt aroma and flavor. This usually comes in those little bottles because it’s a bodacious brew and usually could use a little aging. Lot’s of bitter fruit, burnt malt, alcohol, grapefruit hop flavors.

2002 Bottle shared with, and thanks to Eric. Pours a rich deep amber with a tiny lingering head. The aroma is really sweet and some citrus. The taste is moslty caramel, a nice alcohol bite, some hops, perhaps brown sugar and citrus. A nice BW that has held up really well.

Pours bright amber into a Snifter. Tan pancake head recedes to an oily skim on surface and to hug rim. Grapefruit, resin, and alcohol aromas. Sharp caramel upfront with a lasting dry warm grapefruit finish.

2004 bottle consumed 12/29/07: Pours mahogany with a thin off white head. Smells citrussy and resiny with lots of sweetness. Taste is a mess with lots of sweet sticky elements accompanied by a ton of underlying bitterness. A piss poor beer.

Wow...this beer does not help in my quest to love barley wines. Aroma was huge and delicious. Strong dark fruit, caramel malt and a little hops. Pour was a deep dirty brown with a one finger off white head. Taste was very 2 sided...first you have the heavy malt and dark fruit that assault the taste buds. Then everything disappears and a dryness takes over that leaves a bitter hoppy taste on the tonsils and in the throat. It goes from one to the other with no transition. Give me a Third Coast anyday.