Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

Golden orange pour. Aroma is of fruit, alcohol, and hops. Alcoholic flavor with hints of fruit, wood, and spice. Initially creamy and somewhat sweet, then shifts to a bitter hop aftertaste that dominates over the sweetness. Maybe a little hoppy, but otherwise well balanced.

2009 edition. Nice reddish copper appearance with off white head that settles slowly. Hoppy aroma with nice caramel sweetness and a bit of dried fruits and ripe red rind cheese. Complex flavour with long lasting hop bitterness that dominates over the sweetness. Appropriate low carbonation. In my opinion more suitable with food than as a stand alone.

2009 edition, 330ml bottle. Pours dark reddish brown with small white head. Lots of hops and very rich and thick taste. Feels almost Like I need another one to get hang of this.

This is El Señor Barley a wonderful brew, if I see it I buy it. Beautiful color and presence, the aroma (citrus, hops, vanilla flan) make you starve for a sip and the taste overcome your senses and diminish your wisdom. So bad it is seasonal brew.

A wonderful smell, typical for some american breweries, emerge from the bottle when opened. It contains basil, citrus and some sort of cookie-ish doughy smell. Very nice! The taste brings out essentially the same notes that were present in the aroma, but the massive bitterness kind of kills it. The rest of my bottles goes in cellar for a looong time.

Wow, I’ve been wanting to try this for a while and it was well worth the wait. Pours deep, ruby red with a medium white head. The aroma was full of hops and a little sweet. The taste was fantastic. Very hoppy, but still well balanced, and the finish lasted for a perfect amount of time. Awesome.

Upfront has a smooth malty flavor. A bit of buttery biscuit and raison comes through with a subtlety of dark fruit. A swift bitterness then overpowers the malt character creating a long bitter aftertaste that lingers for a while in the back of the throat. With every sip there is a different complexity of malt and hop elements. This was my first barleywine and I am very pleased.

A 2009 bottle tasted in 2009. Aroma of hop and citrus. Apperance is dark red with a weak head. The flavor is very bitter with a clear hop caractear with hints of citrus. The hop is dominent.