 AgentSteve (1334), SF Bay Area, California, USA
Aug 5, 2008 ’05 Bottle courtesy of Carl4beer. Pours a flat ruddy brown with no carbonation or head. The nose is full of dried fruits, caramel, brown sugar and malt. The flavor is not quite as complex or smooth as the nose, but you have to try the Oaked version!
wetherel (1565), Encinitas, California, USA
Aug 4, 2008 Tasted from bottle at RBSG. I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time. I got a 2004 bottle from kp, but I can’t open it until 2025, when my son turns 21. Now I finally get to try it. Sweet, malty. Nice aged characteristics.
MrBendo (1039), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
Jul 17, 2008 Updated: Sep 16, 200812oz bottle. I can’t remember when I bought this bottle, but I need to
re-rate a new one when I see it again. It has more hops than I was expecting.
Hazy orange with a small head. Aroma of citrus hops, candied fruit and honey. Warm and mostly sweet caramel and honey. But I bet it was better fresh.
pintsize (1042), Austin, Texas, USA
Jul 14, 2008 6-24-08 bottle shared with lb4lb thanks to kramer17801
Super thick orange amber brown. Smell is so mild and hard to really detect anything in there aside from a touch of alcohol. Flavor is high alcohol. Not very developed or balanced and too much present alcohol for me.
Hophead22 (1056), Redlands, by way of Wisconsin,, California, USA
Jul 13, 2008 Bottled on 3/5/2002. Nazy orange, some floaties. Slight malt aroma. Sweet malt flavor to it . Not bad
MaltDawg (778), Richmond, Virginia, USA
Jul 10, 2008 2005 cask on tap at Capital Ale House Virginia Beer Festival. Aromas of carmelized malts with rum soaked fruits and alchohol. Mostly clear golden with minimal white head. Raisins plums and earthy aged hop flavors over sweet carmelized malts with some woodyness.
Full body with sweet finish of spicey hop bitterness and alchohol warming.
Excellent.
beerbill (1917), Laurel, New York, USA
Jul 4, 2008 12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with The Epeeist. Pours a hazy amber with a thin off-white head that disappeared after the first sip. Lots of fat carbonation bubbles clinging to the sides of the glass. Light aroma of caramel with some lemon detected as well. The flavor is caramel with some citrus hops towards the finish. A bit more effervescent than I would care for in a barley wine. Some butteriness, but not as much as I would expect in a barley wine. Probably not something I’d revisit.
Rciesla (3500), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
Jul 4, 2008 Updated: Mar 30, 2009Bottle. Pours a dark amber brown body with an off white head. Aroma is etoh some dark fruit but the large hop character turned me off from this. 3.5
Wow just had a 5 year old keg version at of this and it was freaking awesome. Good bye hops hello to a malty fruity nectar of vinous alcohol. I loved it. 4.1
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