Pelican The Perfect Storm

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Pacific City, Oregon USA

bottle, thanks to thirdeye11, crimson muddy brown color, boozy butterscotch aroma, flavors of caramel SloPoke, malt whiskey, chocolate, a little hot but great flavors

Bottle courtesy of thirdeye11. Dark reddish pour. Heavy smell with sharp malts and small tart flavors. Taste is heavily flavored with caramel malts and sweetness. Hot with ABV that tingles on the palate. Good.

Pours dark reddish brown. Nose is boozy, raisin, burnt sugar, bourbon, and green apple peel. Taste is just not meshing for me, i think its just way too boozy, a little too thin, raisin, toffee, caramel, toasted marshmallow, bourbon, tanins, and just heat. A few years would do this beer wonders.

Thanks to corby and Gillard for this one. I have been lucky enough to have it twice in the past month. A: Pours a nice deep shade of brown with amber highlights. Medium tan head leaves behind some nice thick spotty lace. S: Nice sweet malt notes. Tons of caramel, brown sugar, and toffee. Bourbon soaked apples with hints of oak, and vanilla. T: Same as aroma. Wonderful malt sweetness, with the bourbon providing a great compliment. The flavors meld so wonderfully. M: Full in body, rich, smooth, creamy, EXCELLENT! D: A damn fine brew, one I could sip on for hours.

@Tampa Wkly Gathering @tpd975s Thanks gillard-22oz bottle–pours a light tan ring with mahogany color. Aroma is sweet dark fruit, medium/dark malt. Taste is sweet dark fruit, medium/dark malt, earthy hops bite.

22oz bottle. Pours a cloudy dark brown color with a medium tan head that fades to a ring and leaves good lacing. Aroma is caramel, bourbon, wood, toffee, dark fruit, and spice. Really pungent and awesome. Flavor is caramel and lots of toffee and wood, in addition to vanilla, spices, cherry raisin, fig, date, malted milk balls, and a little mildly boozy bourbon. Very complex and very, very tasty. Full body with a smooth mouthfeel, only ever so slightly boozy but very warming. This is easily one of the best barleywines I’ve ever tried.

2009 bottle. Deep mahogany pour with bright ruby highlights and no head. The aroma is Musty bourbon and caramelized dates rounded out with a hint of vanilla and charred oak. The flavor is awesome rich, buttery caramel with notes of fig, vanilla, an accent of char and smoke, and milk chocolate. It finishes with a nice little alcohol kick. The body is sticky and full with low carbonation.

Bottle brought down by Joel from the pub. Super dark red color with a small beige head. The aroma has a lot of bourbon influence and barrel character, like this spent some quality time on wood. Dark burnt sugars, charred oak, burnt vanilla, caramel, alcohol and old wood. The flavor is very hot with lots of bourbon, dark caramel, bunt fruit and charred wood. The finish is almost pure alcohol and very rich. The mouthfeel is very hot and alcoholic, full, and has a modest amount of prickly carbonation. A very big beer that is not very smooth at this point and could use a lot of time to mellow out. Dark and burnt for a barleywine. They really went for it with maximum barrel extraction, but it looks like its going to take a lot of time to really mellow back out.