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Smuttynose Wheat Wine

Smuttynose Wheat Wine - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
92
overall
Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine

Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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3593.59/5.03.58/5.0Special11%61.2Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Another recently created American style, wheat wine, as its name implies, is a strong ale made with a substantial measure of malted wheat as well as barley. A close cousin to barleywines, wheat wines are typically strong, full bodied, deep gold to amber in color and feature a subtle soft tangy flavor derived from their wheat malt.
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 pnista (1008), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Jul 23, 2007  
2006 bottle. Rich caramel to toasty red with a dense light tan head. Very smoth sweet rich caramel malt. a small hint of apple juice wheatiness. Small cinnamon spice. a bit creamy. Some fitting alcohol. Low carbonation, some viscosity w a stick tacky feel. A honey to caramel sort of malt sweetness. Rich sweet cream cut by high alcohol. Some spicy to wheaty notes in this alcoholic barleywine. A little toast in the dry alcoholic finish.


 Glouglouburp (2778), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Jul 19, 2007  
Cloudy dark-blonde body topped by a little beige ring of foam. Unexpected amount of caramel, I usually only get that much caramel flavours from darker (copper/amber) beers. A bit buttery. A bit spicy although I didn’t identify specific spices. The beer is rather sweet and also well hopped. Floral and resinous citric hops. Alcohol is apparent. Nice effort although I prefer traditional barley wines over the more fragile wheat wines. I’ve also heard about grape wines but that just sounds weird and plain wrong to me.


 Emil (6075), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/516/20
Jul 11, 2007  
Bottle. A amber beer with a tan head. The aroma is sweet caramel malt, fruits and hops. The taste is sweet caramel malt, fruits, grape and hops. Medium to full body with a dry finish.


 TaktikMTL (2745), Montréal-Nord, Quebec, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 9, 2007  
En fût. Verre de dégustation dégusté chez Portsmouth Brewing Co. (Porstmouth, NH). Arôme: Odeur de caramel au beurre avec une pointe d’alcool. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux. Saveur: Goût de caramel anglais avec une pointe de pommes. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Présence de caramel en arrière goût. (Rating #1122)


 emerica56 (575), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 5, 2007    Updated: Sep 11, 2009
This beer has a nice golden color with a mild head to it. There was a sweet smell of hopps and malt. As you drink it you get an overwelming taste of hops but the nice smooth flavors of barley wine with a bready wheat finish. I like how they combined the 2 it makes for a good wheat beer. It is an interesting complex blend of wheat and barley with the booze well hidden.


 joergen (8430), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 2, 2007  
Bottle. Cloudy orange coloured with a hwite head. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits and hops. Flavour of caramel, dried fruits and hops with notes of vanilla.


 madsberg (4873), Søborg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Jul 1, 2007  
Bottled. Amber coloured. Unclear. Light brown head. Sweetness, spice, apple, citrus and herbs in the aroma. Flavour of spice, alcohol, sweetness, pine and flowers. Quite balanced Medium bodied. Spicy bitter end. Nice one. Thanks to jjpm74 for this.


 Papsoe (14642), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Jun 28, 2007  
(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of madsberg. Clear, amber golden with an off-white head. Hoppy, citrusy nose. Medium body, citrusy accents and a fairly solid dose of hops. Unfortunately this appears a little tired. 270607



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