Victory Old Horizontal

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Snifter

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A great beer! A beer that if taken lightly will def leave u horizontal.

Strong nose of figs and alcohol, brandy-like. Beautiful ruby-brown color and a low, tight head. Powerful malty taste laced with fruity (dates, black cherries) and spicy (pepper) flavors. Clean, silky palette - man this is smooth. Like a port wine, but better because it is beer. Amazing stuff!

Aaaaaahhhh ... now this is a wondeful beer. The kind where you savor it and just have one, lovingly sipping it. Nice to cozy up with a couple of these and a love one. Excellent barleywine!

UPDATED: MAR 29, 2005 I just can’t find a Victory brew that isn’t outstanding. Seductively smooth and delicious. RERATE: The more I have it, the more I love it. This is my desert island beer. RERATE 3/05: Red body, tan head, sweet nose with some hops. I notice that this isn’t as hoppy as it was a couple of years ago. In particular, it doesn’t have that PNW hop bite. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though. Nice malts, rich mouthfeel, minimal alcohol presence. A lot more subtle than it was in 2002.

A full course meal in a bottle!

Pours a fine light tan head on an unclear deep amber/orange body. Sweet and full and very well balanced aroma of fruit, oranges, toffee, nut, prunes and a fine tone of alcohol - excellent! Flavor is just..... WOW!!! Starts with an excellent sweet fruityness, then an extremely well balanced hoppy bitterness kicks in and it all ends in a very fine dryness and a nice and warming bite of alcohol. Notes of prunes, raisins, chocolate, malt and lots of hops. Not as sweet as many other barley wines because of that fine hoppy bitterness. Very smooth and soft. Nothing less than outstanding and definately one of the best beers I have ever had, if not the best........

Bottle. Dark ruby color. Nice head, fruity malty aroma, excellent palate. Bold, malty flavor that is balance perfectly, with what taste like English hops. Perfect barleywine.

This is the best Barleywine style Ale I’ve tasted. I haven’t rated them all on RB but I had to give this its props! IF you haven’t, you have to!!!!!!!!

Deep amber with a very long head. The aroma has lots of dried fruit and toffee. The taste has absolutely no trace of the high alcohol content. It is a perfect balance of the bitter grapefruit from the hops and the creamy, toffee flavored malt.

sweet hoppyness in the nose, old malt essences as well, somewhat cloudy medium amber hue lacing head, hops hits first in this battle, then the malty richness, which lends to carmel notes accumlating into a very well balance american barleywine! overall best barleywine Ive ever had, Iam gonna miss your loving late in the midwinter season baby!