Smuttynose Wheat Wine

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

Bottle. Orange amber body with a fast fading off white head. Oddly grainy aroma is familiar but I am not sure why, light wheaty notes. Dry alcohol flavour on first sip, moderate malt character with very light caramel notes. Boozier than the flavour can support. Average palate. Lacks the depth required to sustain it for me - underwhelming.

Copper/amber color out of the bomber bottle with a foamy yellowish head. Alcohol hairspray and fruit in the nose. The alcohol is noticable from the beginning, with some caramel sweetness and a green grape, apricot fruitiness. It has the light puffed wheat mouthfeel that I get from most wheat beers, but it is sharpened by the alcohol. Interesting beer.

Thanks to Degarth for sharing this treat. Amber colored body wiith a thin head. Aromas of dark fruits, malts, some spice and sweet notes. I didn’t look at the bottle, and from the taste, I had no idea this was a barley wine. It doesn’t taste like any other BW I’ve personally had. Flavor is sweet, crisp, almost champagne like. Good brew, very unique.

(bottle - 22 oz: 2006 vintage) Copper color with a thin layer of white head that goes away quickly and leaves a soapy residue. Light aroma of wheat, malt, sugar, and alcohol. Mostly sweet malts. Flavor is very potent at the beginning with a lot of malts, caramel, toffee, wheat, and alcohol. Chewy mouthfeel and very warming on the finish.

Dark buckwheat colour and taste, with different wheats. If you like wheat beer, this is a must try. Bit heavier, so match with meat and patatoes. Drinkable.I enjoyed these wheat wine without the question marks that I had with another wheat wine.

dark amber with no head..aroma of light wheat and heavy sugar..flavor of heavy booze, lemony citrus hops, and a slightly stagnat malty backbone..

Hazy copper/amber pour with a small reddish-tan head.Semi-sweet aroma of caramel, fermenting fruit, notes of cherries, a light note of vanilla, and a bit of alcohol. Initially very boozy flavor. Notes of caramel and fruit, but a bit subdued by the alcohol. Lots of potential, but this needs some time in the bottle. Palate is medium, bitter, with a bit of sour and dry fruitiness

2005 Bottle. Pours a mostly translucent deep golden amber with a smaller size bubbly off white head that left some slight lacing and poured with large bubbles. Aroma of molasses, deep dark fruits, caramel, some nuts, light alcohol and vanilla. A lot going on in this aroma. Flavor of vanilla, almost giving off some oak characteristics, bourbon, dark fruits, caramel, molasses, with some lingering hop bitterness. I would guess this one had a good bit of hop flavor when it was young. Some alcohol burn but no an 11% hotness. Aged rather well.