Deschutes Mirror Mirror Barleywine

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Bend, Oregon USA

650 ml bottle from Bev4less. Pours a translucent amber-copper color with a medium beige head that has fair retention and minimal lacing. The aroma is complex with oak, caramel, sweet fruits and almonds. The flavor is bold with sweet fruits in the forefront; caramel, oak, walnut, biter hops and a bit o’ whiskey round out the sides and back. The mouthfeel is smooth and malty-full. The finish is long, dry and bitersweet. Overall: Wow, a barleywine tour de force. I went into this with fairly low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised. Very nice, I am impressed.

Tap at City Beer. Pours with a copper color and a smallish head. Has some aromas of wood and leather. Flavors are sweet but nicely offset by some wood, and dark fruit. If it warms up it gets a bit bozzy, probably will age well.

Had on tap at stone to start the day off. Smells of some hops lil bit of caramel and some alcohol. Taste is a good amount of hops with a huge alcohol finish. Not a bad alcohol finish but you can definitely taste it. A good beer for sure that started the day off right nowlets get smashed man

22oz bottle thanks to Sparky27. Wax dipped with the usual awesome label for Deschutes. Pours a ruby hue with a small white head. The aroma is lots of oak barrel, some sweet caramel and fruits, sweet and nice. The flavor is similar; sweet barrel aged goodness. caramel, sweet candies, vanilla, grapes, light bitter hops in the finish struggle to get through. Very nice. The different oak barrels really show here, sweet flavors and a touch of bourbon.

Bottle from the Coop in Davis, CA. Pours a brilliant reddish copper with a stiff tan/beige head. Aromas of sweet caramel and piney hop. Medium body with fine, frothy carbonation. Flavor is caramel with a lot of floral and resin. There’s some heat. Finishes sweet, but with bitter. There’s lots of everything in this wonderful ale. It keeps changing with each sip.

Taste from bottle at PP bottle shop. Very nice. Some sweetness. Lots of carmelization, from either long boil or from barrel. I don’t get much if any buttery barrel aged goodness in the aroma/taste. Very nice medium to strong hoppiness. Very drinkable. Very delicious.

1/2 pint on tap at the Falling Rock for Barleywine month. I had this beer a couple years back but I couldn’t remember if it was good. It is very good. It looks like your standard American barleywine, ruddy orange with a soapy white head. It was also rather opaque. The smell was caramel and sweetness. The flavor was bitter yet smooth with a creamy mouthfeel. i couldn’t taste the barrel or the alcohol. Deschutes needs to whip up another batch of this good stuff! Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 02-09-2008 17:30:37

Thanks to toncatcher for this! Pours dark copper with a nice creamy head. Aroma is fruity with some candi sugar, earthy malt and floral. Flavor is sweet with a little of the oak showing. Has some nice hop balance. Medium body and easy to drink. This is good but a different flavor than most of this style. Has more fruit and flowers than most beers but it is not bad.