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Brownings Ol Shag Barleywine


 Percentile 
70
overall
Brewed by Brownings Brewery
Style: Barley Wine

Louisville, Kentucky USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
203.35/5.03.3/5.0Special11%16.8Snifter
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Commercial Description:
A classic English Style, this strong ale offers a huge body that is dominated by a malty sweetness. Shag bark hickory syrup adds a spiciness and high alcohol strength to this richly aged beer. She Devil Imperial IPA: This high gravity pale ale has a beautiful pale copper color with a delicate, somewhat spicy hop aroma. A full malty flavor that has some fruity, estery overtones is offset by a long, clean, lingering hop bitterness.
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 biggcb (458), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 31, 2007  
Bottle shared by TomDecapolis. Pours a nice deep amber color with virtually no head. Aroma overall is a little odd. Some floral & citrus notes, caramel malt and alcohol. Flavor is of dough, caramel malts, a little citrus.


 hopdog (5525), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Oct 19, 2007  
22oz bottle shared courtesy of TomDecapolis. Poured a deep amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of toffee, citrus, caramel, woody, and there was something there I just couldn’t figure out. Tastes of tofee, caramel, citrus, and nutty. Medium alcohol finish.


 egajdzis (3598), Spring Mount, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 19, 2007  
Poured a lightly hazy, red amber color with a small, off white head that left spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of light floral hops, citrus fruits, a bit of metal, light DMS, with caramel, and some alcohol as well. Taste of maple syrup, some caramel, cardboard, toasted dough, with dry grapefruit, and some alcohol in the finish as well.


 YourDarkLord (1800), Urbana, Illinois, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Aug 30, 2007  
Murky chestnut body topped with a small, ecru head. Fruity aroma with notes of alcohol and malt, molasses. Medium body with a slight syrupy feel. Flavor was dark dried fruit and alcohol. Not a bad barleywine.


 npdempse (931), St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Aug 19, 2007  
Hazy brown/amber with a very small head. Delicate aroma with a good bit of honey, some tobacco and cherry notes. Flavor is quite sweet, with much of the character of a nicely aged English barleywine--tobacco, walnuts, honey, cherry. Good dry bitterness finishes it off. Surprisingly impressive.


 buckybeer (666), Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 26, 2007  
Aquired from antzman. Thank you. Pours a dark copper and has a smal off white head. Aroma is fermented fruits, malts, sweet tarts. Flavor is is sweetend malts, bitter hops, medicinal. Body seemed a tad thin.


 TomDecapolis (3122), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jun 23, 2007  
Thanks to hatchy for sharing this rare one during a brew session. Pours a hazy brownish amber with a smaller creamy off white head that left some lacing. Aroma of dark fruits, malty sweetness, the hickory syrup, Flavor of toast sweet malts, hickory syrup, dark fruits, vanilla, some oxidation and caramel malt.


 Retorp (2154), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 3, 2007  
Courtesy of Kevster. Thanks, Kevin. The aroma is fruity with a strong malt aroma and mild vegetal notes. The body is a muddy brown with nearly no head. Sticky sweet fore is followed by sweetwer candy sugar notes and oxidated caramel. The mouthfeel is pretty thin for a BW, but you get a pretty nice dark fruit flavored blast int he finish which saves this beer from being awful and actually gets me wanting another sip.



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