UPDATED: NOV 6, 2020 650ml bottle, vintage 2009 @Brasserie 4:20 (Rome). Miele di castagno, brillante, limpidissima, schiuma ecrù media. Al naso splendida ossidazione, pan di spagna bagnato al passito, ciliegie sotto spirito, nocino. In bocca è dolce, con note di caramello, vinosa, frutta rossa, spettacolare. Corpo medio-pieno, carbonazione leggera. Ma che spettacolo di evoluzione ha avuto!?!

(bottle, 65cl) De facto clear, ruby brown colour with a beige and short foamy layer. Distincively nutty toast-malty aroma with notes of chocolate, chestnuts, traces of alcohol and a mildly spicy hoppy background. Moderately sweet and delicately bitter flavour, full bodied with a soft carbonation. Nutty and moderately toasted malty taste with caramel, hints of marzipan, chocolate and chestnuts, as well as mildly hoppy spice from behind; lasting nutty malty and moderately spicy hoppy finish. 22.IV.15

Aroma and flavor is malts, mild sugar, fruit/berries and a sweet/warming alcoholic finish.

22oz from beer junction. 2015 vintage. Tons of brown sugar, holiday spices and slight taste of balsamic vinagar. Really deep tasting that does not fade. Alcohol is really present on the back end. Great!

Converting ticks to ratings. Had this back in Januari '12, at the Beer Temple. Very sweet beer, malty, berries, some chocolate, raisins, alcohol, resin. Medium to full bodied. Decent.

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2018 Sweet malt, bitter hops and slightly burnt toffee on the nose. the body is sweet and rich with buttery toffee, caramel malt, apricots, raisins, astringent citrus hops and some dark berries. Thick and a bit sticky with a bit of booziness. Not bad at all.

22-ounce bottle pours dark copper-ruby with very small light-tan head that quickly dissipates. Aroma is vinous, yet malty sweet and hoppy. I detect salted caramel, figs, dates, raisins, prunes, carmelized brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup, nuts. Flavor: all of the above, yet seriously ramped up! Flavors attack the taste buds, then cling to the tongue, and evolve as it warms in your mouth. Mouthfeel: thick, rich, slick -- a meal in a bottle. Who needs food.? Seriously malty. It’s sweet, yet mercifully not cloyingly so. I find too many barleywines to be too sweet. This one has a complimentary bitterness that, for me, is balanced nicely.

Pours a ruby red-brown with light tan head. A strong dark fruit malt, sweet caramel, and bourbon barrel aroma. A sweet malt, caramel, dark fruit, and bourbon barrel taste. A lingering dry and sweet malt aftertaste with little bourbon.

With Z, pours a Amber color with no head. Nose is fruity and sweet. Taste is sweet, fruity, syrupy caramel and malt . Finish is sweet and fruity as well, with a moderately long finish . Quaff Score 6 / 10

Bomber. Pours a red brown with a dissipating beige head and sweet fruity, caramel aroma. Taste is of ripe fruit, alcohol, caramel, and malt notes into the sweet, fruity finish.