Dark Horse 3 Guy Off the Scale Old Ale

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Marshall, Michigan USA

An orange beer with a disappearing orange head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of both fruit and alcohol, the fruit notes are mainly of fresh fruits, but also some stale fruit notes mixes in. The flavor is very sweet and the alcohol burns on the palate and is accompaniet by lots of fruity notes. A very nice beer - but You can easily get drunk of it.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Beautiful, clear, dark amber with an off-white head. Fat aroma of caramel, oak and aroma hops. Very ful and alcoholic body with lots of oak and some bonbon notes. Marked, bitter hoppy finish. 290806

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ post Borefts BF 09 hotel tasting
Unclear medium brown amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry - dried fruit, moderate to heavy hoppy, pine, orange. Flavor is heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to creamy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcohlic. [20091031]

Bottle at GABF 2008. Hazy amber coloured with a medium sized off white head. Sweet aroma of dried fruits and caramel with notes of cookies. Very sweet flavour of dried fruits, sherry, cookies and hops. Light hoppy finish. Well hidden alcohol.

Date: 04/30/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear dark amber, whispy white head, big sweet hot aroma, thin, very hot carmel malt flavor, sweetness from the alcohol, long bitterness in the finish, destroyed by the alcohol

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 4/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.8/5.0
Drinkability: 1/10
Score: 4

Dark., muddy brown. Big malt aroma – caramel & Tootsie Rolls. Strong alcohol presence. This is a mean mother – though it’s strange that while the caramel doesn’t balance out the alcohol at all, it does meld with it to create a unique effect on the palate. Slightly salty. Still, something to temper the heat would have been better – it hit my stomach like St. Ides.

(12oz bottle, thanks Pailhead) Small off-white head atop a clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, grapefruit, caramel, raisin, syrup/molasses, light banana. Taste is very sweet, caramel, raisin, grapefruit, light alcohol burn in the finish. Medium-full body, but a bit thin for the big sweet flavors.

From the Bottle at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 09/10/2008 Fruity aroma. Bronze mid brown coloured and very strong in alcohol with a crisp bitter and slightly dry full malt finish.