Sonoran Old Saguaro Barleywine

Pours copper with a thin tan head. Smells vinous, sweet, earthy, peppery. Tastes fruity and weet with a buttery splash and some sweet toffee on the finish.

First beer on a severely drunken weekend. Bottle shared with MrBunn. Pours a coppery caramel color with a modest head. Smells seriously whacked with caramel, some sour fruit, and some agave or something. The taste is quite special...sour fruit, sweet cloying oddness. Rather sour actually.....Not sure how good this bottle is. If this is normal, theres a problem. Finish is actually ok, but its the in between thats not. Fail.

Bottle. Pours a rather dark amber with a smallish head and aromas that are strangely reminiscent of agave or something herbal/southwestern. There is a bit of fruit (cherries and peaches) also in the nose, but the fruit turns a little sour in the flavor with a margarita-like alcohol presence. This is OK, but I’m wondering about the quality control on this one.

(22oz bomber, thanks to blutt59) Pours a medium dark orange. Smell is hops, caramel, alcohol and sour. Taste is of rainier cherries, gets more sour as it warms.The palette is off on this one but i still like it. Probably infected.

Courtesy of kp. Pours amber with a bit of haze and short lived white head. The aroma is musty sweet malts, pine hops and a touch of sour tartness. The taste begins with crystal malts and pine hops mixing with sour tartness. Interesting, a sour barleywine. Very cool. The modest tartness and pine hops play against the mild malty musty sweetness creating some balance to the experience.

Thanks to IBrew2or3 for the share. Pours caramel brown with a white head. Nose is caramel, fruit, booze, and whiskey-esque alcohol. Flavor is citrus, fruit, cactus (?), floral hops, and some tartness. Interesting beer.

(22oz bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours an amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of sour apple, cherry, mustiness, and caramel. Flavor of apple, sour citrus, cherry, caramel, and vinegar with a bitter finish. Infected…

bottle thanks to blutt59. amber with a cream head. infected beer with slight cherry funk scent. quite thick and a decent cherry tartness. guess i rated it as a sour instead of a barley wine.