Baladin Xyauyù Etichetta Rame (Copper Label)

2005 bottle pours with no head and little to no carbonation in the cloudy amber/brown body. Aroma is very close to Grand Marnier - apples, spice, oranges, cinnamon, cognac, oak. There’s a fair amount of maltiness in the taste, dried fruits, toasted sugars, and a thickness like brandy. Any hop bitterness has long since faded to just sweet floral notes. Dry woody aftertaste.

500ml Bottle (2005 Vintage) in my DFH Snifter: Complex aroma of wood, dark ripe fruits, slight alcohol, figs, prunes, toasted caramel, raisins, and port wine. Poured brown/deep amber/deep copper in color with no head at all. Cloudy. Not sparkling at all. Full of large and huge particles throughout. Flavor is heavily sweet. Tastes of dark ripe fruits, toffee, light wood, raisins, plums, figs, dark ripe fruits, slight wood, light honey, and a hint of tobacco. Full body. Viscous, syrupy texture is slightly dry. Zero carbonation. Sweet, dark ripe fruit, slight tobacco, and slight honey finish. On par with Sam Adams’ Utopia. 13.5%ABV is present in the nose but not in the flavor.

Bottle: The aroma consists of caramel, chocolate, molasses, alcohol, raisin, and faint fruit. It pours a mostly transparent brownish-orange with lots of fine sediment and a few scant bubbles and a ring around the edge of the glass. The flavor is very malty. It starts with a sugary combination if caramel, molasses, and caramel. The some faint fruitiness in the background. The finish has some hints of raisin, apple, cinnamon, and alcohol. the aroma would lead you to believe it would be much hotter. Full bodied with minimal carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel.

Bottle 500ml. [ Vintage 2005 ].
Clear medium orange amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry, raisin, plum, wood, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy - oily, carbonation is flat flat, finish feel is moderate to light heavy alcohlic. [20090321]

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of medium sized clear colored bubbles that were quickly diminishing and left behind a semi-opaque with fine particulate softly carbonated dark brown colored body and a poor lacing. The aroma was vinous. The medicinal mildly vinous mouth feel was very tingly at the start and at the finish with a vinous aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of alcohol strong vinous hops and dark malt. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

2004 Bottle - Lordy, lordy...Thanks to Sam, we tasted all 3 Xyauyu side by side, absurd!...Pours shimmery dark gold, no head, a still beer, if you call it beer...aroma is aged fruit, caramel and molassas...flavour is the same, smooth as silk and only slight heat, sherry like in the mouth...I would never have guess this beer if tasing from stemware without pouring it myself...if not for the absurd price tag, this would easily always be in my house.

2004 Copper version thanks to Sam, who decided to bring all three versions to Toby’s place! Thanks man. Pours a beige-brown color with no head and some legs. A super sweet port-like nose. The flavor was very sweet and very hot; like a aged port, molasses, caramel, wood, brown sugar and a boozy sweet finish. It was also somehow, quite easy to drink, especially due to the slick oily mouthfeel. Very enjoyable.

2006 vintage. Pours a caramel colour with absolutely no head. The aroma is like an Oloroso sherry. Sour and oxidized nose. Complex sweet and sour notes on the nose including maple and caramel. Tastes as sweet as unfermented wort. Very sweet, but very complex. Maple, caramel, cherry, wood, and cereal. No carbonation... but still very nice. Weird like the other beer from this brewery. If I had to pay $35 for this bottle I don’t think I’d be super stoked. But very good none the less.