Climax Barleywine 10th Anniversary Ale

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

Tap at Barcade. Deep copper-amber beer topped by a thick fine-laced head. Sweet tasting malts and leafy hops. Very similar aroma profile to the IPA but is bumped up a few notches. Sweet, caramelly malts, earthy, resiny and leafy hop aroma. A bit of nuttiness, sitting behind the otherwise straightforward malt profile. Body is nicely rounded, soft texture, a bit of light fruit in the flavour that just isn’t there in the nose. Warming brings out a lightly plummy/rummy note that I quite enjoy. Soft bitterness, good balance and a very nice barleywine.

A deep red beer with a lazing orange head. The aroma is sweet and like a good hop soup in which You’ve put oranges and caramel, but also with a note of alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty, with a quite strong alcohol presence, though the body is weak. There’s quite a lot of hops in it, which towards the end turns more and more dusty, but the flavor also contains a honey note. The end is dry, but until that sets in, the mouthfeel is smooth. Comes in a beautiful blue bottle.

Bottle. Pours copper/amber, with a tan head. Aromas are oranges, grapefruit, malt, alcohol, and brown sugar. Flavors are oranges, caramel/butterscotch, sweet malt, alcohol, and a little spice. Body is medium to heavy. This is easily the best thing Climax have done.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours opague amber with a small beige head. Aroma of hops, caramel, citrus, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet, bitter citrus hops are present, alcohol. Good brew.

Hazy deep amber colour with a dense tan head. Malty, caramel sweet aroma with a light dark fruit hint and a strong alcohol note. Malty, toffee sweet flavor with an alcohol note and a faint hoppy finish.

Pint swinglock bottle from beastiefan2K. Very viscous pour, smallish off-white head forms and fades to a ring and a scattered bit of foam across the top. Somewhat opaque, deep amber with reddish hues in color. Aroma is malty, fairly sweet with a non-offensive distinct alcohol presence, some toffee. Full bodied, warming to the gut. Alcohol is there and a little up front but not too harsh. Decent hop balance in the finish, a bit of citrus/pineapple. Decent.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear amber golden with a creamy, off-white head leaving a light lacework. Fat aroma of caramel and aroma hops. Full body with sweet caramel and toffee and some bitter hops - not a very clean hop profile though. Rather distinct alcohol. 240706

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a big beige head. Caramel malty, chocolate, light roasted, hoppy aroma and a sweet malty, roasted, caramel, hoppy taste. Medium body with a sweet light alcoholic finish.