Victory Old Horizontal

Floral pineapple aroma with toffee undertones. Cloudy copper color with a medium yellow head. Sweet, somewhat viscous, flavorful. Tastes mainly of horehound, but smoke and grapefruit is there too to a much lesser degree. Becomes more balanced during warming. Delayed, but good hop finish. ABV is hardly noticeable.

12 oz bottle from JB175. I have seen this around town in select stores, but have yet to try it. Fairly light aroma, although I drank this rather cold. Fruity, malty and hoppy. The balance between the hops and malt is pretty impressive. Very drinkable and dangerous.

Pours a nice caramel brown with a fluffy white head.Smells of thick sweet malt and a deep dark fruit. This beer is malty without question and it is the perfect balance of malt and hops. The alcohol is there, but doesn’t really stand out. There is a bitterness that I pick up in the middle that kind of slowly fades until the end. It is chewy and it has just enough hops to tie everything together. On a cold night this is what you’re looking for.

350 ml bottle from Bevmo. Hazy mahogany brown with a fizzy white head. Aroma of caramel and chocolate covered fruit. Interesting fruit, sugar, and pine taste transitioning to a good bitter bite, and finishing with a pleasant alcoholic warmth.

Sampled a few times now, and I like it more every time!! 10.5 % alc is well hidden! Easy, warming drinker, lots of malt aroma, some fruity, malt flavor, slight hops, but very balanced, got I love this brew! Thanks to Lou18 for the 2005 bottle! Yum!

bottle shared with the man [bdigi66]. One the best barley wines I have sampled. Wow plenty of hops but you know what, there can never be enough hops. Perfect sweetness that just amazed me. Loved it!

bottle shared by bdigi66 - Pours dark amber with just a little foam. The aroma is mainly sweet malts. The flavor has some nice complexity and balance with sweet malts, plenty of hops, and some dark fruitiness creeping in there. Full bodied and finishing on the dry side, this barley wine is very good.

Date: 01/10/2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

amber with suspended bits, rich sweet malt aroma and flavor, touch of bitterness to keep it balanced, nice creamy character, fruity character comes out at the end

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Score: **+/4
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Date: 12/12/1998
Mode: Bottle
Source: Norm’s, DC
Vintage: 1998

clear amber, slight sweet malt aroma, rich warm sweet malt flavor, just a hint of bitterness,
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Date: 01/30/2003
Vintage: 1998

dark amber, whispy tan head, rich sweet malt aroma under big hops, rich malt flavor, lots of balancing bitterness, slightly alcoholic, warming, just a hint of fruity character
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Date: 08/02/2005
Vintage: 1998

rich fruity aroma and flavor, low balancing bitterness. earthy hop character, slightly smokey, very rich, rich fruit not quite developed,
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Date: 02/10/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 1998

big earthyness in the aroma with the caramel being pretty dry, sweet caramel malt flavor, nice fruity character, balancing earthy bitterness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Score: **4
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Date: 12/03/2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market, DC
Vintage: 2003

clear dark amber, thin fine beige head, big earthy hop aroma on top of a sweet malt base, rich malt flavor, slightly sweet, lots of balancing hops,
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Date: 08/02/2005
Vintage: 2003

nice sweet malty aroma, big sweet fruit flavor, stays rich but begins to fade, a bit of alcohol fumes,
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Date: 02/10/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2003

sweet fruity aroma with still plenty of earthyness, sweet and fruity flavor but still well balanced with the earthy hops,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Score: *4
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Date: 07/25/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Vintage: 2004

clear dark red, wispy beige head, sweet dark caramel malt aroma with light earthy hops, rich and fruity malt flavor, lots of earthy balance, no alcohol, fruity sweetness grows and starts to get a bit sticky,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4
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Date: 01/09/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Vintage: 2007

clear dark ruby red, fine beige head, sheets of lace, sweet caramel malt aroma with lots of earthy hops and a touch of alcohol, big sweet dark caramel candy flavor, lots of fruity sweetness, stickysweetness is lightly balanced by an earthy hop character, is this really the current version, tastes much more aged,
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Date: 02/09/2008
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2007
Score: 3.7
Words: green’s

bottle aroma is much more earthy than draft with the fruityness taking the back seat, earthy bitterness also rules the flavor, touch of caramel sweetness in the background, will take years to equal the draft version,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4