Dark amber pour with tan head. Nose is sweet smelling with alcohol. Flavor is high in alcohol and some hoppy bitterness that is mellowed out with some sweetness from the malt. Thick chewy body.

(bottle - 22 oz) Murky brown color with a puffy tan head. Aroma is surprisingly light with good hints of sweet malts, caramel, alcohol, and yeast. Flavor is sweet and malty at the beginning with a nice and smooth balance of some of the floral hops. Caramel and sweet malts come through at the end and pair nicely with a decent amount of hop bitterness. Alcohol is well hidden.

A most drinkable barleywine. Nicely balanced with the caramel malting and the normal barleywine taste,some dates, this one will transition people to barleywines. Brownish colour with good head. Above average mouthfeel, although above average carbonation.

220z bottle, dark-amber color, with a fluffy beige head, sweet toasty malt, fruity nose of light candied orange peel, apricot esters, with a toffee, caramel, cookie dough accent within an alcoholic aroma follows through on a full-bodied palate with a sweet toasted, caramelized malt, cookie dough, fruity character, of still candied orange peel, faint peachy accent, with a toffeeish, mild butterscotch flavor, with a hint of flowery hop, within a mellow warmth mouthfeel, leading towards a warming, malty, fruity, lingering hop bitterness finish.

<i>My Bottom Line:</i><br /> Leafy and slightly resinous hoppiness latches on to fruity caramel malt character in this balanced but mostly uneventful Barley Wine.<br /> <br /> <i>Further Personal Perceptions:</i><br /> -A veil of foam covers the hazy red.<br /> -Some worrisome leathery notes are found in the aroma.<br /> -Simple cereal sweetness pleases but does not offer the personality and diversity I see in the best examples of the style.<br /> -The body is healthy, but I find the flavor sequence to be lazier than the average Barley Wine’s.<br /> <br /> <b>Bottle.</b>