Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine

Pours translucent deep ruby with a medium tan head. Nose is caramel,dates, molasses, and sharp hops. The flavor begins with a powerful candied date and irish cream (?) that quickly turns into overwhelmingly harsh and almost painful bitterness, along with powerful hops aroma carried by the alcohol into your nose. Thick, oily, ongoing bitter mouthfeel and aftertaste. Alcohol very evident. Good, but should be allowed to age longer.

On tap at the Stone World Bistro, sat out in the gardens and enjoyed this one. Thick and smoky-hazy. Lots of dark fruits. Very hoppy. Chocolaty, caramel malts. Sweet, syrupy and intense but mellowed at the same time. Overall a very big and quite enjoyable brew.

On tap. Aroma is candied red fruit and banana with an explosion of bubble gum. Taste is bubble gum with some cough-syrupy fruits. Funky.

[Sampled at Beermouth’s Rogue tasting at Vinens Verden.] Bottle. I love this barly wine, so sweet so bitter, this is art. 4-3-2009 drinking a 2006.....this is extreme just bitter and stong absolut no sweetnes, fantastik.

Pours dark, cloudy, tastes like coffee at first with a bitter chalky residue which later allows some of the flavors to take shape on the tongue. Aftertaste is grape soda-like. This only sat on my shelf for a week so it may age better.

[Sampled at Beermouth’s Rogue tasting at Vinens Verden.]
Brown muddy look with slight brown head. Aroma of roasted sweetness. Flavor is more hoppy, than sweet for the style. Some kind of roasty bitterness which suits this beer great. A true quality beer. A stouty barley!!

Bottle. Reddish amber with orange head. Some caramel and hops in the flavour. Very bitter hops, but the sweetness from the malt gives it some balance. This beer should be stored for some years. I think it will be a lot better them.

Pours a very slight if but no head. The Aroma is awesome, you can easily depict the chocolate and dark fruits. Pouring a nice dark brown to orange brown color. The taste is very complex, with a coffee, caramel, slightly after taste of chocolate on the back of your pallete. Palate duration is perfect, absolutely awesome. Its best aged to one year. This bottle was a 2006 and unknown of exact age.