St. Ambroise Vintage Ale

[Vintage 2001 sampled 2005]
A hazy orange beer with a disappearing orange head. The aroma is sweet and quite hoppy. The flavor is sweet and very hoppy with a slight alcohol burn. Nice for a barley wine to by so hopped. Thanks, Per, for sharing.
Vintage 2000 - Sampled 2006 - it definately is over the top [4/3/5/3/10=2.5]
An amber beer with a fast disappearing orange head. The aroma is extremely oxidixed, but also has notes of oranges. The flavor is sweet and again very oxidixed but not as bad as in the aroma, but also has notes of fruit

Copper coloured. Big citric hop aroma. Hurely malty, rather sweet. Fruity withsome plum flavour. Salty licorice in the finish. A very nice and well balanced barley wine. Thanks DougShoemaker!
Earlier Rating: 1/31/2002 Total Score: 4.2
Tasted in February 2001. Dark orange. Thick, rich, complex and very malty. Tasty now, but will probably conitnue to develope on the bottle for a few more years.

(Bottle 34,1 cl) Hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Fat, caramel aroma with a tart edge. Fairly full-bodied with notes of overripe apricots. Sweet caramel malts and sherry like accents. Perhaps somewhat oxidized. 290806
Earlier Rating: 8/15/2005 Total Score: 3.4
(Bottle 34,1 cl) Vintage 2001. Hazy, amber golden with a nice, beige head. Aromas of sweetish malt and hops - lovely aromatic, hoppy nose. Sweetish and quite alcoholic with loads od sweet caramel. 120805

Hazy reddish-amber w/thich head; chewy, rich aroma with tons of malt, mint, leafy hops, peaches, alcohol. Flavour is rich, peachy, malty, perhaps a little bit more balance in the finish that last year’s (dryness contributed equally by woody-tasting hops and alcohol). This is kind of strange - like last year’s, it could do with some cellar age, but despite being even stronger, it is a little better balanced.
Earlier Rating: 12/8/2000 Total Score: 2.8
Peachy colour; heavy malt nose. Chewy-tasting, maybe a bit earthy, but very sweet and kind of cloying. Put it in the cellar for five years, cause it just ain’t ready yet.

Bottle, tahnks to MPA for sharing. Hazy golden coloured with a small white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and dried fruits. Flavour of malts, caramel, dried fruits and hops.