Troll Geisha

Brewed by Birrificio Troll
Style: Barley Wine
Vernante, Italy

Serve in Snifter

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50cl. pours a murky medium brown. bright caramel at the edges. big loose sudsy gray head with lots of spotty lace. big tangy balsamic, strawberry, and caramel nose, nice peat and dark fruit undertones. creamy, thickish, somewhat sticky body. oranges, strawberry, balsamic, peat, and caramel on the mid palate. long sweet berry and balsamic finish.

(50cl bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a spare beige head. Aroma of caramel, vinous, cherry, light chocolate, and toffee. Flavor of red grapes, chocolate, caramel malt, toffee, and plum.

Bottle at Bir & Fud. Ruby red, lasting tan head. Intense fruity aroma, acidic.Well-balanced sweet molasses and Asian fruit flavours.Complex.

4-oz sample. The body was smooth, creamy and viscous. The flavor was caramel cookies, with a finish of warm golden raisins. Lightly herbal hops. Sweet palate. Warming alcohol.

Kind of thinking that some of the low reviews are just from ticket shock at the SIB, but since I didn’t pay for this one when I had it at PIB I can safely admit that it wasn’t a bad beer. Poured amber with a light white head and minimal lacing. Aroma and flavor were very sweet for a barleywine, but not in an offensive way. Alcohol content was noted, but in a minor way. Decent beer, though by no means worthy of 7 tickets, but again I didn’t pay for it so whatever.

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4oz. at Seattle International Beerfest. Did not care for it. At seven tickets was glad I tried it but the flavor really caught me off guard. Imagine a Barleywine blown way out of case. Just too sweet and too wow for me.

4oz. pour at Seattle International Beer Festival with mspindler. This was one of the worst beers I had that day. I thought for the 7 ticket price, that it would be something really good. Poured a brown color with vomit looking sediment floating everywhere. Sweet vinegar aroma. It was way too sweet and funky for a barley wine.

This was a 7 ticket disappointment. 4 oz. taster at Seattle IBF. Pours a cloudy brown with yeast chunks and a tan head. Aroma is medicinal, herbal and sweet with some chocolate and cooked fruit. Flavor is basically the same with a light hop bitterness. Thick on the palate and a bit cloying, low carbonation.

Truly great.Sour aroma when the cap is opened, after some effort. But then this openes into a wonderfuly complex vinous, grainy, smooth barley wine. Every home should have one. From Bir & Fud, Rome.