 scania (184), Malmö, Sweden
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Jan 1, 2007 Bottle. Color: Light amber. Aroma: Vanilla, whisky. Flavor: Malty, caramel. Vanilla. Alcohol
ChristianSA (368), Copenhagen, Denmark
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Dec 29, 2006 Bottle. Nice aroma of vanilla and red wine with some hints of red apple. Clear copper with small white, short lived, head and OK lazing. Flavor is shockingly sweet and dominated by cane sugar with notes of overripe banana. Hot, alcoholic in the finish with a long sweet finish. Viscous mouth feel. Warms the chest after as you swallow. As cloying as a young Thomas Hardy’s ale but more alcoholic. The oakiness helps balance this beer and makes it drinkable in spite of the sugariness. As the rest in the ’Demon’ series it seems under attenuated. I think Avery should consider refermentation in the bottle for their stronger beers to add complexity and ensure full attenuation - but who am I, to question their methods?
Stine (1380), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 29, 2006 Updated: Sep 4, 2008Firey orange in color with a yellowish creamy head. Aroma is vinegary steak sauce, with some oakiness and brown sugars. Tastes like the venom of the demon himself; a heady concoction of maple, toffee, and generally crushing sweetness. In a word, overpowering.
brewblackhole (1385), Muskego, Wisconsin, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 24, 2006 at first,all you get is a port wine aroma,this must be from the oak barrels, then the chocolate malt and the dark fruit with plenty alcohol come floating in,very little head, highly sweet malty raisony,vanilla taste, almost the texture and heavy sweetness of Mogan David wine, alcohol certainly evident but not as overpowering as you would think. A single bottle gets you flushed in the face. A wonderful high gravity brew
slang (408), Columbia, South Carolina, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 23, 2006 Updated: May 25, 2007Almost $9 12 oz!, from City Bev. in NC. Funky nose. Clear amber beer. First few sips are VERY astringent, w/ a strong alcohol base... this fads quickly thou to the malt monster the mother truly is. Great beer& a nice treat. I’m damn buzzed on a single, what!? -- 4 Packs, anyone?--
almankin (10), Crowley, Texas, USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 2/5 | 3/10 | 1/5 | 6/20 |
Dec 22, 2006 The taste of Alcohol over whelmed any flavor that might have been there. It tasted like flavored whiskey.
TheEpeeist (1492), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 22, 2006 12 oz bottle. Batch 2. Clear pink orange with a small off-white head. Strong nose of rum and cherries. Intensely sweet and chewy clover honey and vanilla with light pine drying. Peppery caramel. Like the Beast alcohol dominates.
nhorween (640), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Dec 22, 2006 Bottle. Clear, garnet red color with a thin, creamy head. Nose has many of the standard barley wine elements - vanilla, oak, cherry, figs - plus some sweeter, port or amaretto like notes. Alcohol is apparent. Nice aroma, nothing outstanding. Flavor is hugely sweet with overwhelming oak, vanilla, and date notes.Caramel malts and meager bitterness. Alcohol can be felt all they way down the throat. Cranberry notes also. Very wine like, faintly (very faintly) reminiscent of a riesling. Syrupy and alcoholic in the mouth. This beer is way too sweet to be balanced. There is some inspiration there, but it seems like Avery just put as much sugar as possible into this beer in order to get as much alcohol as possible. I’m much more of an American Barley Wine fan, but still, this one could be better.
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