Dunedin Spatz BarkeyWine Barley Wine Style Ale

Tap @ brewery. Pours dark brown, with white head. Aroma strong dark fruit profile with nice roasted malts and sugar. Taste, was getting a lot of cooked pear/prune with caramel, thin chocolate body with some malts. Warming alcohol palate with a finish that is borderline barrel. A fine tasty barley wine.

Draft... Cloudy burnt orange ale with a mid-sized, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. Sweet, vinous, fruity notes along with nibs of caramel waft up from the glass. Full-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and tingly carbonation. The flavor is all caramel, maple syrup and tawny port sweetness buffered by moderate bitterness. Lengthy, malty, rich finish.

Draft at brewery. Poured deep cloudy brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is malty and not as much hoppy as most barleywines. Notes of nuts, dark fruits also in the aroma. Tastes of dark fruits, walnuts, mild hop presence, and a bit of candi sugar and toffee. This is quite the drinkable barleywine that hides the alcohol well.

Tap at the brewery. Pours to a hazy mahogany body with a thin white head. The flavor is very malty. Notes of toffee and subtle peanuts/walnuts. American hops. The aroma is light and not very detectable. Subtle toffee. Unfortunate that it’s so light. The palate has a lingering bitterness with a creamy moderately full body.

On tap at brewery. Pours clear deep copper with lasting off white head. The aroma is an inviting load of dark fruity esters. I get grapes, cherries and sweet plums. I also smell melanoidin malts, mild roasty malts and some pine hops. The taste experience starts very viscous as the fluid ushers in mild fruitiness cut by roasty malt, mild pine hop bitterness and faint citrus hops. The fruitiness is a punch bowl full of cherries and dark grapes that become more raisin and prune like toward midway. I get a representation of fruit, roasted malts and hops into the after taste. It isn’t too hoppy or fruity for the style. I’d love to re-rate it with some age on it . . . maybe a year or so.

May, 09. A year and a half later this beer is getting pretty darn amazing. I have been getting a rich river of caramel coming forward that wasn’t there before. The mild fruity esters are blending together and mixing with the roasted malts. Wow!

First rating for this beer!

Plum colored body with almost no head, just a very small collection of bubbles. Aroma is a bit muted, but has bubble gum, yeast, candied sugar, fruit and sweet malt notes. Flavor backs that up with the bubble gum sweetness being amplified. Also get a nice amount of tropical fruits and caramel. Medium bodied, low carbonation. Sticky palate. Finish is medium length and sweet. ABV is well hidden, only showing up slightly in the flavor profile. Seems a little green, will need to re-rate when available.