Dominion Millennium

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

Cloudy brown color, sweet malty aromas, hints of honey in both the nose as well as the flavors, also some undertones of brown sugar, very sweet aftertaste, very well balanced & full bodied, slight hoppiness in the palate as well, very nice barleywine

Copper/orange in colour. Aroma of sugar, quite floral, some alcohol and rather sweet. Flavour of floral hops, some alcohol, very sweet. Smooth medium-large body. Finishes with a mild warming alcohol bitterness. A bit to young.

Bottle: Hazy medium amber w/ a non existant white head. Lacing is thin and sporadic, probably caused by higher alcohol. Aroma is citrusy and piney hops, solventy alcohol, some caramel and toasty malt. Fruitiness is medium,but mostly due to alcohol and hops, not fermentation IMHO. Alcohol gets stronger as it warms. Well balanced for a big beer, and slightly to bitter. Citrursy hops alcohol, moderate caramel malt in the start, bitterness and citrusy hop in the finish and aftertaste. Some solventy alcohol notes as it warms in the finish. Fuller bodied, medium carbonation, well hidden alcohol compared to flavor and aroma, lightly dry m/f. Not a bad barleywine, but definitely young and of need of some aging. I’d like to have another bottle to try in a couple years.

Bottle, from trade with The_Beer_God. Bottling date Feb 11 2005. Ok nose, little funky. Ripe fruit. Pear, banana, apple, plum. Lite whisky. Caramel and or vanilla. Hazy orangy brown color. Small head that faded to nothing. Minor lacing. Malty flavors. Sour. Like aroma with a little grapefruit. Damn this has a taste to it that I can’t quite place. Medium body, creamy smooth mouthfeel, sweet & Sour finish. Tasty enough, but I’m not diggin it. Little of the rotten fruit thing.

Sickly sweet hay and old fruit aroma. It's the usual barley wine smell, and it is nice. Tastes of old fruit, yeast, bread, and hay. Somewhat strong on the lips and throat, but not offensive. Buttery finish, with a pleasent, thick mouthfeel. Thanks Kinz.

Bottled on 2/19/98 - A hoppy barleywine with beautiful color. A nice beer to sip that's a bit different than most Barley Wine's.

2006: Pour is slightly hazed amber with a nice dense tan head...smell is sweet sweet molasses, vanilla, caramel...no alcohol...taste is sweet with lots of earth fruits and thick chewy syrupy caramel...mouth feel seems a little thin and slick...good though...

Exceptionally "early" 12 oz. bottle (Feb. ’05) pours a large quickly fading head with no lacing. The beer itself is briliantly copper red with a huge bready and ripe fruit nose. Initial palate is syurupy sweet with traces of honey, raisin and ripe banana in the mid-palate. Finish is polished a bit with a decent bitter hop balance that leaves an average aftertaste and warming alcohol flavor. Perhaps I should cellar the remainder of this young lot.