4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a deep, dark amber color with a beige head. Wow, this aroma is heaven in a bottle. It’s killer!!! The aroma is of toffee, citrus, pine, caramel, and lovely simcoe hops. Perhaps there’s also suggestions of mango, molasses, brandy, and creme brulee’s crunchy top. Palate is full and rich. This was amazing!!! Thanks adrian910ss.
4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Aroma of anis, cloves, and malt. Appears murky without being chunky. Tastes of clove and barley with sweet malty undertones. Very exciting.
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
22oz bottle, 1 year aged. Amber color disipating off white head. Aromas are malty, figs, raisins, pretty rich overall. The nose has really held up well. First sip is really interesting, big hops are still present in the finish, big sweet malty up front, mid palate is thick, tons of life in it. I’d give it another year anyways for re-review to see how it has progressed. Really balanced, rich raisiny palate. So good.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Not a big barley-wine fan usually, but my friend told me this was a must try and I was blown away. A mix of all the best part of Troegs brewing.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Purchased at the Brewriver GastroPub in Cincinnati, Ohio on 12/05/2012 at 6:44 pm - hey, I kept the tag - This is a wonderful, effervescent, full bodied mahogany-hued brew that recalls the wild Alpine mountain goats!
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Pours a muddy ruby brown amber with a medium beige head. Wonderful aroma of simcoe hops, citrus and pine. Taste is very hoppy with hints of simcoe, toffee, caramel, citrus and pine. SUPERB !!!
4.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Poured a cloudy and brownish-red with dark brown hints. An small off-white head fully disappeared instantly.
Toasted grain and multiple hop direction leads in the nose. Grapefruit and spruce/pine mintiness is blunt.
Alcohol is strong but sweet and fruity. Toasted grains are very burnt and slightly acrid. The flavor is not as bitter as expected, but is indeed highly hoppy. Depth of complexity is modest. Sweetness is medium and has a distinct burnt sugar aftertaste. The finish is chewy and malty, semi-sweet and lightly bitter. The mouthfeel is thickish and medium-full bodied.
Great offering, the strongest I have had from this brewery and one of the tops in this style.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
22oz bottle. Wow, an amazing BW!!. Pours deep brown with a beige head that left tremendous lacing on the tulip. Tons of citrus and piny hops on the nose as well as caramel, toffee and roasted malts. Flavor held great hop bitterness with sweet caramel, toffee and candied tree fruits to bring everything together, brilliant!
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Huge thanks to The_Epeeist for this.
Pours a dark chestnut into my giant snifter with the tiniest head that disappears quickly leaving some lacing.
Smell: The best nose on a barleywine I’ve smelt in a long time, maybe it’s the huge snifter, but I doubt it. Really Earthy, Citrus and Caramel dominate with Rum, Rasins, and Toffee.
Taste: Sweet, Fruity, Caramel, Woody(I’d swear this was oaked), a little bit of Dark Fruits, Pine, Citrus, Burnt Sugar aftertaste. Heavy and Smooth.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
22oz bottle pours deep garnet in color with a head that quickly fades to a ring. Big citrus hop aroma with some sweetness. Simcoe tasting hop slight bitterness with a slight tartness. Caramel is the largest component of the sweetness. Very goo. Will Sit on the second bottle for a while and see what happens.
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