Dogwood Excellent Adventure

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

A clear orange beer with a dense off-white head. The aroma is sweet fruity with strong notes of caramel as well as alcohol. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of alcohol, prunes, and over-ripe fruits.

(Hand bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of CaptainCougar. Pours a fairly cloudy, orangey golden with a small, off-white head. Typical fat Barley Wine aroma of burned caramel and overripe fruit. Quite full in body, sweetish caramel notes and a touch of nuts, wood and vanilla. Quite a distinct alcohol presence in the finish. But lovely indeed. 280907

75 cL bottle, handbottle, thanks to Papsoe. Pours reddish with a lacing white head. Dried fruity and heavy malty aroma. Soft mouthfeel. Quite heavy dried fruity and slight sticky sweet flavour. Dark slight woody flavour into the finish which ends with a warming alcohol feel.6-3-7-4-14=3.4

22 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden deep orange with a lacing white head. Dense malty and fruity aroma. Smooth flavour of caramel and fruit. Lingering caramel and mild fruity finish. Sweet and fruity into the far finish. Wellhidden alcohol. 7-4-8-4-15=3.8

Bottle. Cloudy orange red coloured with a small off white head, Sweet aroma of dried fruits, caramel and flowers. Sweet powerfull flavour of dried fruits, caramel, hops and cookies. Dry hoppy finish. Very good.

Date: 07/22/2004
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery

hazy amber, whispy white head, sweet carmel aroma with lots of earthy hops and an undercurrent of alcohol, almost coying sweet malt flavor followed by a lonq bitter finish, just a hint of alcohol,
-------- /> Date: 07/07/2005
Mode: draft
Score: iii
Words: 5 Seasons

sweet malt aroma, good rich malt flavor well balanced with earthy hops, sweet and earthy as a barleywine shoud be,
-------- /> Date: 04/05/2006
Source: tasting

sweet fruity aroma, hot fruity malt flavor,
-------- /> Date: 12/04/2006
Mode: draft
Words: 5S North

great fruity flavor, perfect sweetness, no alcohol, aging so nice in the keg beating the bottle
-------- /> Date: 01/06/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: blind tasting
Score: 3.8

muddy amber, wispy white head, big sweet complex aroma with lots of fruity character, creamy body, nice sweet fruit flavor, light balancing bitterness,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Score: **4

Slightly reddish-amber colour. Sugary, slightly fruity aroma with fresh tangerines and sultanas. Chewy, pale malt flavour is rounded and slightly oxidized, but fairly straightforward. Yeah, some fruits, lots of sweet pale malt stuff, and some late nasal-clearing alcohol but it’s all been done before. Still too young, IMO.

(22oz bottle, RBSG05) Clear amber body topped by minimal off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, raisin, grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, grapefruit, some cherry and other fruitiness. Medium-full body, low carbonation. Sweet but supported by big hops backbone.

Bottle. A light hazy amber beer with a beige head. The aroma is of caramel malt, wood, vanilla and hops, the taste is sweet caramel malt, wood, vanilla, hops and alcohol. Medium to full body with a dry light alcoholic finish.