Anchor Old Foghorn Ale

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
San Francisco, California USA

Considering this is America’s first barleywine it really sets a high standard. Ruby-red color, minimal to no head, and a sweet luscious smell of fruits and candies. Flavors of candy, sour apples which are kinda green (actetlyaldehyde ?), good but green with some hoppy bitterness. This is a sipping beer but it is good. It reminds me of Bigfoot but I prefer Bigfoot. I would like to cellar this beer and see how it changes. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-12-2007 17:09:42

Big shaving cream head, lots of bubbles within. Murky but glassy cherry red. The aroma is musty, gritty and heavy on gritty, grainy barley. It doesn’t really escape the snifter much. The flavor is hefty and slightly sour barley, combined with dates, raisin, grapes. Some dark cherry; both sweet and sour. A touch of honey. Some white wine sweetness and red wine depth. Feels thick, slick, oily, buttery. A big, hefty beer. Smooth but heavily sweet and sour.

Ruby amber color, small creamy head. Aroma of sweet malts, alcohol, raisins, and caramel. Well balanced flavor of alcohol, smoked walnuts, and sweet caramel malts. Medium/heavy bodied, velvety mouthfeel.

9,4% ABV. I paid a whole lot of money to bring that upnorth. Cinnamon, clove and alchoolic aroma. Invasive spicyness, sweetness and boozyness definitely make this ale a sipper. I liked this one more and more as my tastebuds got used to this intensity and as the brew warmed up. Good and enjoyable but but but... Spicyness? Somewhat tastes like an heavy christmas ale? Yeah, that might be it...

12 oz bottle. Pours a reddish brown. Sweet aroma, almost like cherries. Flavor of toffee and fruit. Alcohol is evident. A good beer.

Bottle. Aroma of alcohol sugars, red fruits, molasses. Flavor of pie crust and insanely rampant sugar. Holy sugar! Unpleasantly sweet, ridiculously cloying. Drainpour.

Clear copper with a thin tan head that fades into a thin layer. Aroma of toffee, sugar, light smoke, alcohol and a sweet and sticky hop back. Taste of alcohol up front with sugar, heavy toffee, dark fruit, licorice and some hops to help balance it out. Smooth with low carbonation it is somewhat sticky. Warming effects are pretty noticeable, pretty solid barley wine.

Pours reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is vineous, sweet caramel, light tobaco, light liquorish and a hint of bubblegum. Flavour is sweet malt, light bubblegum and some alcohol.