3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured from a 12 ounce bottle from a 2012 vintage bottle. Pours a darker copper with a big beige head of foam. Aroma is pine and fruity bitterness overlaying a big sweetness. Taste is burnt caramel, roasty bitterness, fruity pine bitterness. Interesting and complex beer. Pretty good.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
roasty, grass, earthy, golden, cloudy, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, creamy, bitter, bitter, long finish,
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On draft at the Mad Fox Barley Wine Festival, Falls Church VA. Pours a cloudy amber with a creamy off white head. Caramel and raisin in the nose. Hops come through in the taste, with bitter aftertaste. Nice balance of hops and malts. Alcohol level is pretty well hidden. A nice American-style barley wine.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a dark mahogany red with a creamy head that stays around despite the 10.4 abv. Some bready notes in the aroma, dark hearty grains, some hints of alcohol some raisins, burnt sugar, molasses and some spicy hops.. tastes of burnt sugar alcohol and molasses some breadiness and some hop bitterness has an almost sweet caramel after taste leaving you wanting more. A good thick palate that leaves the mouth sticky
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at thirdeye11’s birthday party. Brown with a white head. The aroma has a lot of caramel malt, but there is also a good dose of hops. The flavor is a combination of many things. I get a lot of caramel malt, as well as a lot of pine from the hops. I also get a good bit of alcohol. A very hoppy barleywine. Glad I got to try it.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours unclear dirty amber in color with a beige head. Aroma brings more smoky sweet malts, not resiny or pungent. The flavor is sweet, almost lemony hoppy on the tongue.
3.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 8/20
Nice sweet malt aroma, some fruitcake, burnt sugar. Taste is strongly hoppy, slightly bitter. Sticky finish. Really nice.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
New Beer Distributors, NY 355ml ($3): Pours a mahogany color with a creamy beige head. Aroma is a bit strange. Aside of the normal massive amount of malt, there is a particular hop character, which I can’t decide whether it is fruity or floral or both, but probably more the former. Taste is rather bitter, with very little sweetness. Nice hoppy aftertaste. Medium-heavy body. Pretty good barley wine.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from beersofeurope.com. Cloudy, muddy chocolate brown. Smells strongly, sickly sweet aroma of hoppy syrup. Taste is fruit cake, sultanas, with a strongly bitter malt tang finish. Warming. Strong alcohol. Perhaps too thin but very nice all the same.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep amber with medium light brown head. Aroma dark sugars, booze, faint citrus hops. Full body. Alcohol is prominent but mostly manages to stay out of the way. Just on the acceptable side of syrupy. Quite sweet at first but balances out eventually. Toffee, dates, candied citrus are there. Lots of malt. Pretty good.
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