3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle courtesy CigarCityBrew. Pours a dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma of sweet caramel, dark fruit, and slightly earthy. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium mouthfeel with a mild to moderate amount of bitterness and well hidden alcohol. Very good.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
creamy caramel coffe flavors toasted malts sweet dried fruits thanks to ronsup
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Clear medium brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dryed fruit, raisin, plum, vinours, brown sugar, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, and a dry finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. (160408)
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Red mahogany with a huge, nice and creamy head. The aroma has a nice sweetness, notes of roasted malt, raisin, plum, prunes and light licorice. The flavour has sweetness, notes of roasted malt, raisin, prune, caramel and light licorice, and I do not feel the alcohol. I do miss a more oily mouthfeel, since it’s a BW, but it’s very nice indeed.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Brown/ruby color with small tan head and no lacing. Sweet, vinous aroma was better than flavor, which was somewhat bland, woody, with some light fruits. Not a great barley wine when compared to some of the bigger stronger ones.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, Mackinlay’s Inn, Stockholm, Sweden. A dark ruby/burgundy colored beer with a small white head. Did not appear to be bottle conditioned. Non descriptive smells, maybe some browned red apple and brown sugar, but not much otherwise. Flavor doesn’t have much complexity. Malts are sweet, caramel-like, also a bit husky. Not a lot there.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: OCT 23, 2009 In short: A whole lot of molasses and a good amount of juicy hops. Interesting take on the genre.
How: Bottle at Winking Lizard (Columbus Ohio)
The look: Brown body with a small beige head
In long: Nose is earthy and toffee. Taste is something else with lots and lots of molasses. Raisins, some toffee and then some more molasses. Black liquorice and more molasses. Thankfully the juicy leafy hops do a pretty good job at lightening the experience. Medium-high sweetness level, sticky body, medium carbonation. Quite drinkable for such a rich heavy beer. The price is the only downside of this Traquair $9.00.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
dark brown, medium head. Roast, malt, licorice, vanilla all tingling in the aroma. Incredibly heavy palate, full bodied doesnt even begin to describe it. Not as hoppy as the american barley wines, much more malt in this. I really dont know about this one, I´d like to re-rate it under another occasion, very good fireplace beer nonetheless
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