Sweetwater Donkey Punch!

22 oz. bottle same as the Dank Tank #4 bottle as well. Appearance: Pours a light, cloudy auburn with a pinstripe of white foam at the top. Leaves spotty lacing. Aroma: Citrus fruit, rind and oil, pear, peach, and sugary malt. Also a little bit of pine. Taste: Orange, grapefruit, peach, mango, brown sugar, and caramel. Finishes with grapefruit and bitterness. Mouthfeel: Syrupy, juicy, and sticky. Overall: Scary good. 10% + abv, with fruity, candy like aroma and taste.

22 oz. Bottle is the same as the Dank Tank #4 picture. I wish they offered this new bottle in 1L, but this year we only are able to get the 22 oz. Picked up at Greens on Ponce De Leon. Nice copper/reddish/orange appearance. Very little head. Nice looking barley wine. Huge citrus aroma. Very unexpected aroma. Slight sweet malt aroma. Huge/pungent aroma! This thing is easy to smell. This tastes more like an imperial/double IPA. Very sweet citrus taste. A nice taste. The sweet malt taste makes this in my mind makes it a barley wine. A sublte bitter flavor. For as many IBUs as this has it is not as bitter as I thought it would be. Creamy beer; glad to have finally tried.

2007, 1L bottle. This has survived 3 tastings unopened... but the title really sums up my week (figuratively), so I’m going to drink it myself. Poured healthy medium orange with an easily-resuscitated cap of yellowy-beige head. The aroma was a bouquet of sweetness, showcasing aged caramel, brown sugar, and redder fruits.. hops were muted, but gave some dry floral and earthy character.. sweetness masked the boozage nicely. The flavor had a similar malt bill that was sweet throughout.. brown sugar led the caramel by a bit and the fruit was much less pronounced.. bitterness was light with pine and citrus leading.. picked up a hit of molasses along with residual caramelly sugars and not-too-specific bitterness on the finish. Heavier-bodied with a choppy flow across the palate (perhaps due to age).. grainy and a little warm.. overall a very enjoyable brew.

2008 1L swingtop - Thanks Toby! - Pours amber with a small off white head...aroma is hop forward and sweet, flavour is similar, dark caramel malt, orange, hop bitterness and boozy...really enjoyed this.

I called in reenforcements for this guy. 1L. American style Barleywine here. Poured gold with a white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, caramel, and booze. Lots of citrus up front with a sweet candy finish. Excellent.

Thanks to Kan for this one again. Murky dark orange, medium beige, pancake head. Oxidized, medium caramel, sweet. Flavor is caramel, sherry, alc, sweet malt. Medium to thin and slightly watery. Oxidized and messy bit nice enough.

1L flip-top courtesy of gford217. I got an immediate whiff of toffee and hops when I popped the top. The color is a very nice orange with a sudsy head that immediately laced my snifter. Citrus aromas, oranges and orange rinds along with a toffee and rum-cake smell. It smells like an American Barleywine to me, specifically West Coast. Super sweet flavor that really seems to walk the line between DIPA and barleywine. It is so sweet and fruity that it is borderline cloying. I expected a little bitterness given the 91 IBU’s. This beer reminds me of Stone 10th Anniversary IPA, very sticky and sweet. This is a good beer but I should have shared the bottle, oh well. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 04-14-2008 01:20:09

Orange with small head. Aroma of Hops, Citrus, and Malts. Taste - Citrus, sweet, malty, and nice hops bite. Overall - It is a good beer, only my 2nd "barely wine" so can’t really speak for the category. But I will definitely try this one again as I could see myself having a few of these.