San Diego Old 395

Brewed by San Diego Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Snifter

Hand pump at brewpub. Dark brown with a little head. Aroma is burnt malts and a buttery margarine. Taste is very buttery with a decent stale hop bitterness. Alcohol is masked althogh the flavors don’t really mesh well.

Draft: Mahogany, nose of sweet malnoidins and light earthy hops. The flavor is a bit green and the abv is noticable. Fruity notes. Good finish and light body for this size so it’s fairly drinkable.

From the Beer Engine at SDBC. Clear dark amber with decent head that formed a ring for the whole glass. It looked like it wanted to leave lacing, but it kinda just slid down the glass. Aromas were caramel, cherries, and other dark fruits. The sweetness carried over to the flavor and became a little vinous as well. Alcohol in the flavor toward the end. Very smooth finish. Pretty good brew.

Draft. Mildly piney hop aroma with hints of anise and caramel. None of the vinous fruit notes that I enjoy in this style. Transparent amber color with a thin white head. Start is smooth turning mildly astringent and rice-like. Vinous booziness in the finish. Brutally thin and alcoholic with no hops detected.

Draft at brewpub. Red-amber and slightly hazy with a thin creamy head that lingered well and left great lacing. The appearance was the best part of the beer. Sweet molasses and hop aroma. Brief, sweet initial flavor, then lots of tart grapefruit hops and a long astringent bitter finish - a little unbalanced. Thick, smooth, full and creamy mouthfeel.

Brown in color. Not much in terms of aroma or flavor. Some tanginess like a barleywine.

A dark brown amber color. Malty aroma. The taste if of malts, bitter with some hops and a light alcohol.

The snifter let the dark burnt amber color gleam as it emmitted only slight aromas of fresh hops..very tame flavors with a tad of bitterness lingering around..no signs of creaminess though..might be too young but who in the right mind will age this...