Shipyard Barley Wine Style Ale (Pugsley Signature Series)

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Snifter

Black liquorice, raisins and chocolate on the aroma. Pours an extremely dark black color with almost no foam at the top. Taste is bready malts with toffee, coffee, slight chocolate and vanilla on the finish. Overall, not really fond of the taste on this brew. Not worth the 8 dollars IMO. C- rating at best.

65 cl botle @ HBF, Tampere.
Rated on 20100521.
Strong caramel aroma, grass notes, ripe fruits and plum. Flavor of caramel, plums, fruits and malts.

Bottle. Dark brown body with low carbonation and a thin off-white foamy head. Complex, well balanced malty/hoppy aroma with brown sugar, chocolate, and some vanilla hints. Alcohol is well hidden. Its sharp, robust hoppy taste carries barley, woody and chocolate notes. Ends with a long, strong, warming bitter finish. Very enjoyable winter warmer.

Dark brown pour with light head,off white tannish. mild spotty lacing. Aroma is pretty nice really good vanilla carmel malt with some pastry brediness,light toffee mild dark fruit Taste is smooth but almost more medium bodied ,there seems to be a complex taste of malt and hop flavor going on that is hard to describe,there is a slight blandness to this,its not rich but somewhat of a dark malt dark fruit flavor and a pretty noticable bittering.Its almost like a imperial brown ale.Pretty good but not one of my favorites.

Aroma of cocoa, bread, and molasses. Pours deep brown with a big head. Tastes of molasses, cocoa and a roasty aftertaste. Neat but not sweet enough.

Bottle. Muddy, ruddy brownish-red with a sloshy head of foam. The aroma is earthy and complex, a combo of musty farmhouse, yeast and plum. This kicks you in the knickers with a robust malty body, teeming with rich sugar, grape, cherry and chocolate aspects, but finishes quite smoothly. (#4345, 10/16/2011)

Sampled at Gothenburg Beer Festival 2011. September 3, 2011
Sweet and fruity aroma, overripe raspberries and blackberries. Notes of malt, chocolate and nuts. Light bodied with sweet caramel, spice and fruit flavours. Finishes boozy.

Bottle. Brownish red with medium beige head. Aroma of oak, burnt wood, spicy and resinous hops, and some biscuit. Flavor is similar but is much more boozy and sweet. Pretty standard barley wine here.