Dogwood Excellent Adventure

Formerly brewed at Dogwood Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Atlanta, Georgia USA

22 oz bottle from TheBeerCellar2: Lasting light beige head on a lightly hazy orange coppery body! Aroma is sherry like, caramel, bready, toasty, brown sugary, and fruity. Aged fruity, very mild, sort of like fruit cake. Non distinct, but fruity and present. Well balanced, but a bit sweet overall, medium bodied, low carbonation, and very smooth. Damn this is a nice, well aged beer! Thank you Matt for sending it to me, and I wish there was more to be had! I may keep the others for myself, being the selfish bastard that I might be!!!

Bottle. Pours a cloudy caramel brown body with a small white creamy head. Potent aroma - lots of toasty malts, spritzy bread, and orange hops. Thick and hot body! Really there is a lot of alcohol here. The hops are prevalent in a viscous manner along with bitter toffee. Not much balance here and it’s really slow to drink. As it warmed up it gave in a little bit but I couldn’t get into it as much as some others on the panel.

There are lots ouf bottles out there,and being traded. This is a hoppy barleywine, maybe one of the first. Not as good as the other Dogwood I have enjoyed and unexpected Americanized barleywine . was better a year later.

Bottles from slob, TBC2. Pours a dark brown with a thin tan head. Smells of licorice, bananas, malt, caramel, toffee and somewhat boozy. Tastes of licorice, bananas, malt and some mellowed out hops. Not as boozy as the aroma suggests. The best of a tasting that included Behemoth.

Bottle thanks to TBC2: Cloudy brown color with a small tan head. Aroma, dark fruits, molassas and caramel. Flavor, caramel rich malts, enough hops to balance it out. Medium to full bodied. It was really nice. Glad I have a couple more bottles.

Thanks to Goldtwins for supplying the rest of the world, and myself, with this beer. The Excellent Adventure surely is an excellent barley wine. The pour is a dark amber with ruby red highlights. A nice sweet aroma that has hints of bourbon. Flavor is sweet, mollasses and a really good amount of hops to balance it out very nicely. The mouthfeel is almost perfect to boot.

22 oz. labelless bottle. typical murky brown pour with decent head. Lots of molassas and caramel and raisin aromas. Flavors of the same with quite a bit of alcohol warming. Very good.

KSBF 2006 RB after party. Pours a translucent golden amber with a small bubbly off white head. Aroma of caramel, a little buttery, toffee and dark fruits. Flavors of the same with a hint of bittering hops.