Bluegrass Bearded Pats Barleywine Style Ale

Brewed by Bluegrass Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Bottle. Pours a dark copper with a thine white head. Aroma is very sweet and hoppy. Hints of citrus fruit, honey, and fig stand out. The flavor is pretty complex. I detected, cherry, caramel, dark fruits, citrus fruits, sweet malts, and hops on my palate. This was a very nice barleywine. Will sample again.

T3 tasting. Orange with a tiny head that dropped to nothing. Spicy warm nose. Super sweet with hints of tobacco and leather in the afters. Thick and sweet with a lingering sharpness. I liked it.

Served from a bottle at toncatchers T3 tasting! Thanks to stefanje, lagunitasfan, weeheavysd, fordest, wetherel, alohac and of course toncatcher for suppling the house and grub. Wasn’t a huge fan of this one, but it was a decent barly wine. A little too boozy.

750ml bottle from trade with twodudes, shared at toncatchers T3. A light brown-copper pour with a small off white head. The aroma is big and fruity with apricots and persimmons. The taste was a classic barley wine with apricots, almonds, toffee, and some rock candy. The finish is long and sweet. The palate is full and smooth. Overall: a very tasty concoction.

Bottle courtesy of Ibrew2or3. Pours a dark copper color with thin off-white head. Aroma is sweet and syrupy with notes of floral hops, citrus, grapefruit, caramel, raisins, figs and honey. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of citrus, grapefruit, tart cherries, brandy, phenol, raisins, some hints of caramel and overripe fruit. Generally medium to full body with a pleasing boozy finish.

Acquired via a sweet-ass trade with moejuck. That guy ROCKS! Pours brilliant clear deep copper with thin off white head. The aroma is bright with cherries, raisins, figs, prunes and sweet cherry hard candy followed by just a hint of alcohol heat on the nose. The taste is chewy sweet goodness with cherries, prunes, raisins and some figs pushing over the palate. Behind the rich fruity assault is a thick viscous layer of sweetness accented by mild malts. This is rich sweet goodness. Very tasty English style barleywine. Should be even better with a year or more on it.

Thanks tpd975 for the share. Pours caramel brown with a nose of dates, plums, figs, fruit, caramel, booze, sugar, and syrup. Flavor is syrupy caramel, booze, brown sugar, honey, and floral hops top it off. Sweet and smooth silky goodness. Enjoyable Barleywine, but about as sessionable as a rhinoceros steak.

Bottle, been sitting on this one for a year. Heavy caramel, overly malty nose, musty (hop?) presence and an overall intense gustatory experience. Gradient ruby pour, no real head, but what little leaked out was beige. Murky caramel and heavy fruit, prune, raisin/molasses notes with fig and orange. Toffee and maple syrup. Medium dry taste, a little vomity. Apple in the burp, but only faintly. A heavy, big boozer, hops have faded with padded time. Received the step-child beat-down, a true thrashing, but still, yum.