Barley Island Single White Friar Ale

Brewed by Barley Island Brewing
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Noblesville, Indiana USA

(12oz. bottle) Pours a hazy amber-brown body with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of mustiness, raisins, banana, clove, caramel, and chocolate. Flavor of raisins, pepper, yeast, candi sugar, and plum.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a murky brown color with a small creamy head. Nose of chocolate, peanut butter, and nuts. Sticky mouthfeel. Taste is caramel, molasses, spice, and those little belgian dark chocolate candies. Nice.

2008 Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a creamy, thick light brown head and great lacing. Hazy brown body. Aroma of bananas, chocolate, toffee and a bit of dried cranberry. Taste is a bit metallic with dark fruits and spice. Bitter Finish. Syrupy mouthfeel with light bubbles.

bottle thanks to bu11zeye. light brown pour with a thin cream head. nose of yeast, musk and fruits. not bad on the palate with a heavy dark fruit flavor and a musky finish.

Date: January 03, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear dark brown, wispy beige head, sudsy lace
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma, touch of chocolate, lots of fruity esters, nice spicy phoenolics
Flavor: rich malt flavor, sweet fruity esters are well balanced with the spicy phoenolics, light bitterness
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Thanks for the bottle Yaniv! Pours a darker slightly hazed reddish brown with a thin warm tan head. The nose is creamy with rich malt and a subtle belgian fruitiness. Dark fruit and chocolate. I cannot smell any alcohol. Really remarkable clean, especially considering my past experience with Barley Island. Creamy full mouthfeel, heavy, but not inappropriate. The flavor is in line with the nose. Perhaps better. Big ass malt, very creamy. Bubblegum. Dark fruit, some chocolate. Ridiculously sweet, but the malt is so round it works. A bit of fruity Belgian yeastiness. Lingering roast might be out of place given the Belgian yeastiness, but I just really like this beer a lot. I may have overrated this... but it is drinking really great and I think this brewery need some encouragement to make more brews like this!

Draft at BI - Aroma is clean and appealing. Belgian yeast, bubblegum, chocolate and pungent spice. Pours dark garnet with a ring head and great lacing. Flavor is strong and tasty, matches aroma with some caramel added in for good measure. Oily palate with a full lingering mouthfeel. A very nice brew.

Pours dark brown / burgundy with a lightly sudsy tan head. The aroma has sweet brown sugar, creamy caramel, toffee, vanilla bean, heavy cream and Belgium maltiness. Nice aroma. Medium / full body with very gentle lightweight carbonation. The flavor starts with the brown sugar aspect with a bit of sourness and anise. There is some Belgium-like aspect in there, but it is more faint and the cream is gone. The finish is fairly sharp with traits in the initial taste. This is quite good and the best I’ve had from the brewery. As it warms a caramel / dark toffee aspect comes out quite a bit.