 Diogène (584), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jun 2, 2009 Updated: Jul 7, 2009Bottle. Hazy dark brown with a thin beige foamy head with good retention and average lacing. Aroma is yeast, apples, raisins, hops and caramel, alcohol and a touch of cloves. Flavor is sweet malt, hops, caramel, alcohol and spices. Medium to full body with a slightly liquorous mouthfeel. Very good.
CheersMate1 (860), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
May 18, 2009 Picked up at Greens on Ponce De Leon. I have been wanting to try this for quite some time, but just never got around to it. Darker caramel brown apperance without any head. Fairly pungent malt aroma. Some dark fruits are in the aroma as well. Fairly nice nuanced aroma. A dry/bitter fruit and malt taste. Too dry for me. Malt/fruit at first then that friggin dry flavor. Not my favorite barley wine, but for Canada good deal. Nice smooth palate.
fidel (1015), Livermore, California, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 14, 2009 Poured dark amber brown, dark fruits, molasses, spicey, caramel, hoppy, alcohol, little roasted malts.
BgThang (118), Texas, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
May 13, 2009 This beer was straight up booze fest. If I was dying in the frozen tundra and I seen a st.bernard dog coming towards me I hope he has this in his barrel under his neck.
For sure way to warm you up.
Syd (909), Waconia, Minnesota, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 9, 2009 Bottle pours dark amber with little head or lace. The aroma is mostly booze and sweet malts. The flavor is fantastic for a Barley Wine as it is very understated and nicely done. Alcohol, while present in the nose is well hidden in the flavor. One of the more drinkable I’ve had in the style. The palate is also nice in that few in this style are actually refreshing. Overall, very good.
RollinHard (763), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
May 8, 2009 Pours brownish red with lighter red highlights and a light tan head that shrinks to a small lacing. Aroma of spicy hops, cinnemon, gingerbread, caramel, raspberries and alcohol. Tastes of brown sugar, caramel, raspberries, toast, cinnemon, spicy-ish hops, and alcohol. Finishes like pleasantly burned gingerbread, wood, leaves and the bitterness sticks around. Big flavors for sure, but the beer is too slick and not that creamy, so it’s only moderately heavy in body. Good blend of hops and sweet malt, and the fruit characteristics add rather than detract. Lots of alcohol heat throughout, but the label says so, so there. Pretty good.
ajm (965), Los Angeles, California, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
May 7, 2009 Bottle from Sun Devil. This beer is clutch. Pours a clear dark brown with a frothy gray-brown head, quickly gone. Smells very darkly fruity with alcohol. Flavor begins as a very dark, raisin skin beer that is almost explicitly chocolatey: very roasted malts. Evolves through its fairly present alcohol to a pretty good quad resemblance. All the while, that Canadian yeast so familiar from Unibroue beers is faint but lurking. A great beer now, could get stellar with age. This little piggy is stocking up.
trevor211 (518), Seattle, Washington, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
May 2, 2009 Pours a deep, dark red with a dense head. Very, very malty - caramel and dark fruits abound. Malty sweet up front, with a sharply bitter, hoppy finish. Hot! This one doesn’t do much to mask its 10%. It’s good, but it needs work - maybe a few years of age.
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