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Smuttynose Wheat Wine

Smuttynose Wheat Wine - Barley Wine

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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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 Arayaga2 (933), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/515/20
Oct 16, 2006    Updated: Jul 16, 2009
Nice copper colored beer with zero apparent carbonation. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Heavy alcohol flavor has an oaky bourbon hint beneath its sweetness and a strange bitterness to the finish, which lingers on the back of my tongue. Fairly high viscosity gives this a decent mouthfeel. $5/22oz


 nolankowal (850), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Oct 5, 2006  
Bottle courtesy of willblake and was shared at the Columbus tasting. Copper pour with an off white head. Aroma of mint, caramel, citrus and malt. The flavor was remicent of red-hots...boozey as well...pretty hot stuff. So far I’m not a big fan of the wheat-barley-wine.


 beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 2, 2006  
Tainted orange color with a smear of light brown. Glowing, thick hazed body. Thin and patchy ivory capping of loosely placed bubbles that don’t last. A thin collar persists though as lacing sticks in stocky webbed strings with lots of thin little fingers. Aroma is quite nice, reminiscent of a aged barleywine with a penitrating, soft heat of dark citrusy wax and syrupy juices. Orange, peach, tangerine, pineapple, melon, all make for a nice marmalade mix on the nose. Taste is more flattened and dulled with a pale wheat sweetness bringing a soft, medium tone of orangey-apple pancake syrup. Somewhat bready and beefy, warmth is prevalent, welcome and lasting in the throat. Hints of pineapple tropical gum and wheaty sugars also make some tiny slidings into the play of flavor. But mostly simple, yet satisfying, with a dulled sweetness of tropical fruit tang, wheat based sugars, and a good amount of heated warmth to cap it off to let ya know you’re drinking something with some girth to it. Feel is medium bodied, well heated, smooth, and a low carbonation level seeps in with ease to let the sugars rise before the heat. Slight fresh spearminty pine oils float about the palate on the finishing warmth; late. A nice little addition to the flavors. Made me want more, and so I obliged to partake in some more. The heat/warmth of this beer is mightily present. It’ll hold ya back some, but not much, as this is a solid treat from the folks at Smuttynose.


 IrishBoy (2686), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 20, 2006  
Nose of caramel malts and raisins; amber with a tiny beige head; flavor is sweetbut with lots of alcohol, dark fruits, and caramel; finish is alcohol with a tiny bit of hop bitterness. Alcohol not well covered. Boy that BA Old Salty is hard for these others to measure up against!


 sliffy (1966), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 20, 2006  
Bottle: Shared by OhioDad: Copper color with a small white head. Aroma, caramel, spice, some citrus. Flavor, brown sugar, spicy hops. A bit too much alcohol comes through though.


 OhioDad (2491), Hilliard, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 7, 2006  
22oz bottle at Columbus Tasting 2.0 - Pours amber without much head. Aromas of citrus hops, caramel malts, some alcohol and pepper. Flavor is big of alcohol.. This beer is one hot brew. caramel malts, and some definite pepper spice on the finish. Palate is warm sweet and sticky. A little hot for my tastebuds overall..


 kujo9 (1077), North Ridgeville, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/105/512/20
Aug 25, 2006  
22 oz bomber from a trade w/ Kramer17801: Light amberish w/ a lasting off white head. Definite spicy alcohol and hops in this one immediately in the nose. Lightly piney and herbal, as well as with wheat malt as it warms. Alcohol comes up a bit solventy/perfumey when warmed. Other than that, the malt character is pretty basic with wheat being dominant, then a bit of caramel thrown in for good measure. Low fruitiness. Well balanced overall with a good wheat malty flavor, but some bitterness creeps into the dry finish and aftertaste. A bit of an herbal, resiny hop comes in mid palate. There is also a bit of piney hop flavor up front. Some perfumey alcohol and lemony citrus hops in the lingering aftertaste. Pretty clean of fruitiness. Lighter full body, warming alcohol, lower carbonation. Not a bad beer at all, just not really exciting for a bigger beer. Good for what it is.


 footbalm (1218), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/516/20
Aug 1, 2006  
Thanks go out to Slob I think for this nice offering. This has a fermented wheat/perfume flavor that just keeps me coming back for another sip. It is a amber color with barely a bubble. Has a bit of a peach flavor to it as well. Very interesting.



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