Bluegrass Bearded Pats Barleywine Style Ale

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

Strong aroma of pineapple, wood, and yeast. Cloudy ochre colorwith a medium lasting tan head, good lacing. Strong medicny wood flavor. Very sweet, grapefruit underneath. Pineapple and yeast finish. Alcohol is evident but minimized.

12 oz bottle, bottled Dec 06. Lightly hazy dark orange/amber with a beige head. Strong, sweet caramel nose, tangy orange citrus notes. Full body, nice lace. Thick malty flavor, caramel, pancake syrup and earth with an orange citrus twist. Very drinkable and the big alcohol is well hidden. Surprisingly mild finish, sweet malt and mild orange, a bit of light brown sugar residue is on my lips. One of the most drinkable, high alcohol beers I have ever had.

Courtesy antzman. Dark, hazy amber. 1.5cm frothy tan head. Aroma has a ton of honeydew melon with some navel orange, light soap, and sweetness. Same flavor- no distinct malt, just sweetness and hops. Full body, balanced carbonation, too syrupy. Love the clear orange and melon notes, the rest needs work.

Name: Bearded Pat’s Barleywine
Date: 11/07/1997
Source: Brewfest, Real Ale Festival

dark amber, whispy head, rich malt aroma with apparent heavy hopping, rich malt flavor, lots of alcoholic esters, good tounge shaving bitter finish,
-------- /> Name: Bearded Pat’s Barleywine
Date: 11/01/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: aa

muddy dark amber, wispy beige head, sweet caramel malt aroma balanced by earthy hops, rich caramel malt flavor, lots of earthy bitterness, lasting bitter finish, touch of alcohol,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

12 oz bottled December 2006, courtesy of Secret Santa. Pour is ruby brown with a 1/2 inch dirty off white head. Head really stuck to the sides of the glass. Aroma is sweet malt, hint of oak and alcohol. Taste is caramel sweetness, with the oak (which has almost a smoky characteristic) and some nuttiness. There is a nice hop bitter finish, which then reveals some heat in the after taste that lingers. This was a nice Barley Wine that no doubt would improve.

Rustic red color with a staying thin beige skin. An aroma packed with odd surprises. Vinegar at first, then fruit snacks, pineapple juice, and carrot cake. Toffee and fresh baked bread on the back end. Very acetic. A dirty tropical fruit rind flavor with a hollow, burnt graham cracker crust feeling. Peaty and metallic with a hot finishing bite. Pungent bursts of grapefruit juice in the sun and tangy lemon pepper. Despite all the weirdness it manages to be pretty dull. Palate smacks of hotness in a nail polish vein. Strange, unrounded stuff without much direction. Thanks Steve!

Bottle Dark pour with nice head and good lacing. Dark woody aroma and flavor. Strong alcohol flavor. Pretty good barleywine, nothing out of this world.

Pours a rusty orange brown color with a medium beige head. Aroma of sweet caramel, dark fruit, feshly cut oak wood and malty pine. Taste is sweet with a strong oak woody caramel presence. Hoppy with a piney finish. Quite different than your average barleywine, but very nice indeed.