 branspra (204), Arlington, Virginia, USA
Dec 16, 2008 Bottle. Pours a rich amber color with an extremely large, frothy head. Excellent lacing with aromas of citrus, wine, port, and apple. Nicely balanced carbonation with a creamy and oily mouthfeel. Taste is amazingly smooth, probably one of the best barley wines available. Well done!
DTM (541), Winters, California, USA
Dec 11, 2008 Botte from Hollingshead Deil in Orange, CA. This was one of the best barley wines of had. Usually you can taste the alcohol, but this was hidden well. Tasted of sweet carmel and spices. Almost perfect balance of malt and hops. Cant wait for my next trip to SoCal in get more!
epf33 (222), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Dec 8, 2008 perfect with biscuits, a truly relaxing beer, if "beer" is even a fair word to use to describe this drink
machfive55 (218), Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 8, 2008 As the last rater said...not bad...actually, pretty good. This poured a deep brown with a nice head and an awesome hoppy aroma. There was a very nice mix of hops and malt that just really played out well. The alcohol is really tough to detect even at 10.5%. This was a really well done beer, good job to the guys at Victory.
coyotehunter (542), , Michigan, USA
Dec 6, 2008 Not bad.Pours a reddish tint with a good head.Good hoppy nose. Rather sweet with a good deal of caramel and malt as well as a fruity appeal. Finishes with an alcohol burn. Id buy it again
HonkeyBra (1258), Lemont, Illinois, USA
Nov 26, 2008 pours ruby with a big, eggshell head. Aroma is almost indescribable. Big, malty, sweet, spicey, hoppy. Flavor is sweet and hoppy. Balanced, subtle, and deceptively drinkable. No trace of the 11%. Wonderful brew.
penguinjive7 (67), Buffalo, New York, USA
Nov 20, 2008 Pours a dark mahogany color with a bit of a beige head.
Smells of bready caramel and a hint of dark fruit.
The taste is originally caramel and very malty. The alcohol then comes in and balances out the maltyness. There is a slight hint of fruit, but it is not substantial. A caramelized malt taste in the finish raps this one up.
The mouthfeel is rather hefty and syrupy but not unpleasant. Carbonation is done well.
This is definitely a sipper. I couldn’t put this one down too quickly, which is a good thing. The 11% is hidden rather well and took me by surprise about half way through since I was so eager to finish the glass. Another excellent Victory brew.
Reviewed on: 04-15-2007
jhumphries69 (714), Tyrone, Georgia, USA
Nov 20, 2008 12oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy, deep brownish red with a rather thick and long-lasting light brown head. There is a good bit of sediment in the bottle that, upon sneaking into the glass, appears quite chunky - clods of dirt floating around. The aroma is viscous and vinous with thick sticky malts, caramel, spices (peppery phenols), and dark fruit. The flavor starts bittersweet with lots of tangy, caramelly, fruity malts and a zip of spicy hops. A rather pungent and earthy hop bitterness wraps itself around the sides of the tongue and all over the back of the tongue, accentuating the spicy perception. A subtle sting from carbonation along with warming ethanol further enhance the perception. At mid-palate, the strong and sweet malts blend excellently with fruity esters and a firm, clean hop bitterness to give impressions of bitter fruit dipped in dark chocolate. The beer finishes somewhat dry with a spicy, sticky-toffee-sweet malt aftertaste. The mouthfeel is surprisingly smooth. The presence of ethanol and crisp carbonation is quite noticeable across the tongue, but combines with the full body to form creamy and slippery waves of sudsy brew. Overall - a fine barleywine - very strong and malty but well-balanced, too.
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