4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Bottle. [Tasting @ Papsoe 20-10-2008] Average bubbly beige head that mostly diminished. Fair display of lacework. Dark amber color. Aroma of wood, rye bread, alcohol, fruit, grain, caramel. Over the palate came floral, dusty grassy and mild apricot like notes. Full bodied with an average carbonation and thick alcoholic texture. Moderated sweet flavor with good counter sweetness. Lingering sweet alcoholic finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle shared with father-in-law. This beer is over 7 years old but hasn’t held up very well. Dark amber appearance. Smell’s of cherry and port wine. Taste of cherry or plum maybe a little oxidized from the age. Overall not a bad beer maybe aged to long.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Butterscotch aroma molasses malt. Murky coffee with huge chunks. Thin mouthfeel that is slick sticky. Sweet with balanced bitter still some hop presence. Has held up. Very good.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
From the saint Arnold divine reserve vertical tasting @ the common table on Dallas. This beer pours a deep reddish amber with a thin off white head. The aromas are musk, fruits. The mouthfeel is sweet and sticky and slightly alcoholic. Really has a large hop character for a barley wine. This aged really well! Cheers1
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A: The pour is a murky brownish color with just about no head. Some scattered light khaki bubbles.
S: This beer is fairly oxidized, but still some brown sugar, toffee, and caramel. A few hints of dark fruits, too.
T: Still a surprising amount of piney bitterness to this beer. Toffee, stale brown sugar, and some light chocolate and caramel. A bit of cardboard, as well.
M: The body is medium and so is the carbonation.
D: Not much left worth drinking, here. Lots of oxidation and not in the good, "chocolatey" sense.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, alcohol, brown sugar, and nuts, leading to a dry woody finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, with HUGE thanks to Zinister. You rock bro! Hazy reddish hue. Lovely aroma. Dark raisins and plum, wood and vanilla. Taste is wonderful. Aged wood notes with ripened fruit. Dark plum with a touch of raisins. Vanilla alcohol rounds out the finish. Finish dries but has the fantastic sweetness that previous was the beer. Lovely.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle thanks to Zinnister. Aroma is Peppermint, malts, alcohol, chocolate, cinnamon, and dark fruit. Wow, a lot to smell. Taste is more peppermint (really?) and lots of roasted malts. Finish is dark and delicious.
3.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a deep brown into the glass with a small beige head. Aroma is dark fruit with a bit of chocolate. Flavor has a surprisingly large amount of chocolate present. Really tasty, but definitely much different than the barley wines I’ve had.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12oz bottle courtesy of KAggie97 poured into a snifter.
Pours a dark, murky brown with hints of orange around the edges with a decent beige head that leaves a collar and spotty lacing on the way down.
The aroma is fairly mellow with lots of sweet caramel malts and even hints of citrus aroma. There are some dark fruits in the nose as well.
The taste is a tad better than the aroma and has a quick (and faint) hop hint up front. Outside of that, it’s really about the sweet caramel malts and toffee with some raisins and a bit of woody dryness in the finish.
The mouthfeel is medium bodied with good carbonation and very smooth and slick going down.
This is a decent barleywine that has definitely held up well over time. It’s not as complex as some of the world-class barleywines out there but it’s definitely drinkable despite probably seeing better days.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Brown in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of caramel, toffee, brown sugar. Taste is of toast, malt, booze, toffee, chocolate and caramel.
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