Smuttynose Wheat Wine

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

This bottled brew from Squire at rating part on Dark Lord Day poured a head of foamy off-white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a transparent light brown colored body. The mild aroma was malt hop. The mouth feel was very tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt hops and vinous. Delicious and one I would certainly like to have again.

22 oz 2006 bottle from willblake. Pour is clear red-orange with only a small off white head. Aroma is dried fruit sweet malted barley and a bit of lively peppery hops. Taste is quite smooth, with the sweetness at the beginning, and nice mellow middle, and a strong bitter spiciness to the finish - then alcohol to the after taste. The wheat gives it a real nice, soft body. Quite a lot going on in this one, all nicely balanced and blended. A very interesting beer. Thanks Jon!

Thanks to tronraner for sharing this bottle with us at the Tennessee Spring(ish) Tasting! This dark amber brew makes a fleeting off-white head. Sweet and creamy texture that delivers a sweet malt profile. Spicy aroma that also reprises in the flavor and I too got the curry that has been noted by others at the tasting. Interesting brew that hides it’s alcoholic level quite nicely.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.