UPDATED: JAN 24, 2024 Bottle, shared with others. Brown with beige head. Caramel, loads of toffee, sweet, toasted, sweet, some cookies, underlying alcohol. Dry.

UPDATED: AUG 8, 2022 Shared bottle at tasting. Deep brown with minimal tan head. Aroma of alcohol. Taste is heavy alcohol, burned sugar, medicinal notes.

UPDATED: AUG 8, 2022 C:opaque cola brown N: caramel, chocolate, toffee P: nutty, green walnut, chocolate, rough, sharp, bitting alcohol, caramel.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2021 Very dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is brown sugar, molasses, dark fruit, nutty, vanilla and wood spice. Taste is heavy sweet and medium/heavy bitter.

UPDATED: JUN 2, 2021 Shared, 2020 bomber poured to a snifter displaying a dark brown color, a decent layer of brownish tan froth, with light strands of lacing on the glass. The nose was malty, toast+, a hint of cocoa, sweetness, dark caramel, treacle, and lurking alcohol. Medium to full bodied, the taste was similar notes, with touches of roasted bitterness & oaky astringency, and elevated, bourbony booze that was quite warming.

UPDATED: FEB 7, 2021 Flaska från trade, årgång 2018, 14%. Mörk mahognybrun, något murken med liten beige krona. Tobak, läder, druvsötma, lite dessertvinstoner, kolaremmar, fikon, katrinplommon i mängder, bourbon, fat, kokos, vanilj, mandelmassa. Maffig och dekadent brittisk BW, fantastiskt gott.

UPDATED: DEC 18, 2020 2017 22oz bottle. Pours nearly pitch black in color with some mahogany at the edges and capped by a small tan layer of foam that settles to a thin film. The aroma shows notes of dark cocoa, toasted caramel, toffee, and a touch of dark fruit over a lightly roasted and rich caramel malt base with further notes bourbon and oak laden vanilla. The flavor follows suit with notes of dark chocolate, toffee, and a touch of dark fruit up front and backed up by the rich, caramel malts and bourbon oak on the back end to smooth things out. The vanilla from the oak comes through and adds further depth and complexity. Full bodied and smooth with soft carbonation that leads to a rich, toasted caramel, toffee, dark cocoa, and bourbon oak on the finish with lingering notes of creamy vanilla. I’ve been waiting a long time to try this beer and it lived up to the hype. Delicious stuff and easily one of the best barleywines around. Awesome beer.

UPDATED: AUG 25, 2023 Rated 5/1/2020. This is an awesome beer/barley wine. You get the taste of bourbon plus chocolate, burnt sugar, caramel and vanilla and of course alcohol. It is all put together very well for a really good drink. Have a extra bottle of it in my cellar.

UPDATED: NOV 27, 2019 2011 vintage pour opaque cola brown with thin tan head. Nose caramel, green apple, light earthy. Taste light oxidation comes off as minerality, then caramel, green apple.

UPDATED: JUL 30, 2019 Aromas of chocolate oak dark malt syrup fig raisin charred malt malted barley campfire ash toffee barrel wood bourbon vanilla dark fruits sawdust and wort malts. Taste is campfire ash chocolate cocoa nibs oak barrel wood malted barley roasted barley vanilla toffee oak bourbon burnt caramel alcohol sugars dark fruits figs raisin plums prunes and charred malts. Overall, absolutely amazing with big stout notes. More like a stout than a barley wine.