Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

First of all, I have purchased a 2002 bottle of this! I do not understand how I came about this beer, but Bottleworks in Seattle had this. Nice light caramel brown in color. Slight head. This beer has a HUGE alcohol aroma. Very malty and alcohol aroma. Again, this is from 2002. PUNGENT AS HELL! Sweet caramel and alcohol. Malt, very very malty, and nice and hoppy and alcohol flavor. This beer is good. This is an awesome barley wine. I know the aging has done a lot, but still this thing is great. I love this barley wine. Nice and creamy, but not extremely creamy. The aging has made this excellent.

Bottle 2006 vintage. Pours reddish/brown with sweet aroma, almost smells like a tripel with notes of fruit and. Flavor is sweet with a nice hop bite. This beer has gotten very well with age.

355ml botlle, vintage 2008, picked at the Luvians in St Andrews. Lasting vanilla-like head, dense and bubbly, on top of a clear brown ruby-tinged body. Pleasing aroma of fresh hops added by spices. Rich taste of citrus shells and sweet caramel fills the mouth. Bittersweet finish of satisfying length. Full bodied [07.11.2008].

Tap at Lucky Baldwins Strong Ale Fest May 2008. I got the 2001 and my friend Joe the 2000. Deep dark brown color and no head. Like a Belgian quad, the notes were subdued dark fruit, malt, candi sugar and roasted sweet wood. The 2000 was light years better.

2008 bottle. Enjoyed on 3/2/08. Poured dark amber with a white head. Excellent caramel & floral hops. Medium mouthfeel. Very bitter with a lot of alcohol warming. My first barley wine. Very enjoyable overall.

Amber with a white head. Wonderful aroma of sweet caramalt and sweet grassy hoppiness. Medium/heavy mouthfeel. Taste is like the aroma. A big beer with plenty of taste and balance. Wonderful finish.

Medium, but dense mango-yellow head, slightly irregular by fine pearling feed from foxy-amber beer. Inviting nose of hopcake: fresh, citrussy C-hops, grapefruit and other exotic fruit, rosewater and cakebottom. Bitter-hoppy, slightly roasted, maltsweet (-syrup) just not getting through. Bit metallic finish, however, grapefruit peel and raisins. Syrupy MF, very thick & viscous. Alcoholwarming after some time. Very good, if severely bitter Barley Wine.
<i> Many thanks to Darren, who made me realise I had never rated Bigfoot, despite having had it more than once. </i>

HInce hazy pour with appetizing head. Boastful malts and good fruits on the nose, and a layered and complex vineous body. Good beer to have before bed, a nice nightcap. Quite tasty.