UPDATED: APR 2, 2020 500ml bottle. Pours a mild brown with white head. Toffee, raisins and leather on the nose. Medium body with rich caramel and toffee. Decedent and delicious!

UPDATED: DEC 20, 2019 Rich malt aroma in an amber copper pour. Complex yet subtle flavor profile has hints of plum pudding drenched in brandy. I bought a dozen an enjoy one around Christmas every year.

UPDATED: MAR 21, 2019 500ml bottle, at the Beer Jerk Bunker bottle share, thanks to me. Soft red fruit, strong caramel, cherry, plum, raspberry, liquorice, figs, chocolate. Good full body. Wonderful.

UPDATED: MAY 1, 2018 From a 500ml bottle is on 1/5/2018. Pours a deep cloudy amber with almost no head. Has quite a strong aroma of caramel and stewed fruit. Massively sweet in the mouth - oodles of caramel, butterscotch, toffee, honey and ripe and dried fruit. Even a hint of milk chocolate. There is a decent bitterness at the back but the sweetness certainly prevails. The palate is sticky and syrupy, with softish carbonation. This is the sweetest barley wine I’ve ever had, but with a very sweet tooth, I can happily live with that. It may not be for everyone, but it’s a mightily impressive malty dessert treat.

Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit aroma with weak hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel and dark fruit finish.

UPDATED: OCT 3, 2017 Deep red-amber body. Thin off-white head dissipates almost completely. Aromas of plum, bourbon, raisin and toffee. Taste is sweet toffee at first, cut through by dark fruit, raisins, rum, vanilla and bourbon. Full mouth feel. Bit of residual sweetness and some alcohol at the end. Rich and satisfying - great.

500ml bottle pours a deep cherry colour with tiny light tan head. The wax head a double layer of wrapping paper creates an added sense of occasion. Aromas of toffee, malt, bourbon and spice. Viscous texture with not too much carbonation. Tastes of toffee, honey, sugar syrup, stone fruit, bourbon and herbal characters. Finishes with strong Aperol-like herbal bitterness and some residual alcohol.

[8648-20160823] 500mL bottle. Fragrant herbal petal and leafy grains aroma. Clear, dark red body with a medium-lasting foamy off-white head. Grainy sweet barley raisins flavour. Medium-full body. Good. (7/3/8/4/15) 3.7
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Bottle - Toffee and some leafy hop notes. Clear amber. Nice caramel notes and sweetness with the hops firmly in the background. This is a great, rich and sweet barley wine that is good to drink fresh.

10.1%ABV. Barleywine. Poured out deep amber brown. 23ºSRM. Nose is sweet, spicy and christmas. Treacle. Praline pecans from the south. Pecan pie. Mouthfeel is syrupy. Palate has caramel, hint of butterscotch, creme brûlée, taffy. Sweet fruit with dates, honey, black plums. Overall tasting note is that of sticky date pudding. Finish is woody, bitter and a little syrupy cling. Overall perfect as a desert wine. Goes on Favorites List!