Dominion Millennium

Brewed by Coastal Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Annapolis, Maryland USA

(Aged 2 years in a bourbon cask): Clear ruby body with no head. Great aroma -- bourbon and wood, port-like. Taste is flat, but soft liquory, bourbon silky, vanilla, some wood and dark fruit. I can"t imagine the regular version is so good, but damn I hope to try it this way again!

Bottle at LCRBM 5 at Kulminator, Antwerp 2009. Haze on an orange gold beer. Aroma of citurs orange fruits. Barrel ageing. Some soft wood. Sweetish. But quite interesting.

Bottle. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Hoppy, light alcoholic, malty aroma and taste. Medium to full body and a sweet hoppy light alcoholic finish.

(Bottle) Pours a murky brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of toffee, toasted malt, ginger, florals, citrus, and leather. Flavor of toasted malt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and dark fruits.

2001 Vintage. Poured a dark and hazy reddish brown color with a smaller tan head. Aromas of brown sugar, molasses, apples, and light alcohol. Smooth tasting. Subtle tastes verses the stronger aromas. No alcohol in the taste. Additional tastes of vanilla and sour citris. This was very good.

6yr old bottle, courtesy from hopsrus Deep copper hue with a light brown sticky head, not all that big, but impressing me for a 6yr old 11.4% barley wine. Aroma is still very hoppy, foresty and piney in fact. Black chocolate and earthy perfumes abundance. Here and there, a grapefruit juice suggestion pops up through the assertive earthiness. Neat aroma, very different. In mouth, there’s more C-hops than I had anticipated, this is bold, piney and grapefruity although we still find the earthy characteristics and there’s a pleasant caramelic malt backbone. Citrusy finish, very hoppy and bitter, rather well-hidden alcohol. Medium-bodied, biting carbonation. A good beer, but, as it happens to me frequently these days, the mouth presence is just not as interesting as the aroma. This is a good barley wine from my notes, but quite frankly, I didn’t even remember having had it 2 days later (among 10+ other IPAs and barley wines)
Ok, I finally got around to retasting this one. It was still a very good barleywine. Nice floral and orange complex hop bite. Herbs, mango, leather. Well presented high alcohol. Medium body. Just a masterly balanced barleywine. Leaving the score where it is, but this last bottle was a young one (2004)

Bottle... This beer rocks!... Great aroma. Just a lot going on. Very malty, moderately floral and yeasty. Nutty with hints of sweet bread, dough, plum, apricot, ruby port and honey. Nice looking beer. Cloudy amber with a small, creamy, khaki head... mostly lasting. Flavor is very malty and very bitter. Perfectly balanced despite high abv. Full bodied. Syrupy mouthfeel. Fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Excellent beer!

Amber orange hued. Sweet malty hop/good barleywine aroma. Robust thick body has decent balance and hides its alcohol well. A decent barelywine.