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Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
87
overall
Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Barley Wine

Frederick, Maryland USA

bottled
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on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9813.49/5.03.48/5.010.2%47.4Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Big malty flavors, including licorice and chocolate, are balanced with a moderate hop profile. Brewed with copious amounts of prized malts and flaked oats, the Barley Wine is so strong that it has to be aged for several months before we can bottle it. Like a fine wine, it will continue to improve with age up to 2 years after bottling (If kept cool).
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 eaglefan538 (2355), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/58/20
Aug 21, 2008  
Bottle probably about 1yr old, sat around in the fridge, never surfacing as one I wanted to try, not sure why I bought it in the first place, as I’m not a huge FD fan, cough, cough. The pour was brown with some reddish aspects, weak head, near nil lacing. The aroma was fruity, dark fruity, molasses, caramel. The flavor was dark fruity (not in a great way, though), caramel (sticky, icky, off), sticky, finishing with a slightly but not significantly redeeming piney (slight citrus) hop touch. Mouthfeel was lowly carbonated, sticky, actually quite an astringent mess. Ignore the label, this ain’t nothing like a "fine wine," and if it gets better over time, I’m glad I let it sit around for a little while before consuming. Boo, FD!


 OldMrCrow (1179), Seattle, Washington, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/103/57/20
Aug 18, 2008  
’07 Bottle tasted August ’08.

I’ve been drinking a lot of really good beers lately and I guess I felt like it was time to do penance. This one has been sitting around for a while. Pours brown with plentiful ruby highlights and a modest head leaving long-lived foamy lace around the edge of the glass. Nose of green apples and hot alcohol, rotten vegetables and a bit of old cheese. Really not impressive, but if anything the flavor is even less pleasant. Alcohol, cough syrup, very sticky-sweet, candied prunes, an assortment of the various off-flavors one might find in a barleywine. Drain pour.


 Jerre (1755), Waregem, Belgium
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 17, 2008  
Bottle, 355 cl. (Bought @ Mi Orge Mi Houblon, Arlon) Hazy amber-brown color, a good offwhite head. Aroma malts, light hops. Medium body. Taste malts, bit hops and a warming touch of alcohol. Not bad.


 alraicercsu (166), Ft.Collins, Colorado, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Aug 16, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a small off white head. Aroma of sweet fruit, molasses and malt. Tastes of wood and rasin/citrus. The alcohol is warming, great beer for this raining day.


 leaparsons (4659), Leicester, Leicestershire, England
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/515/20
Aug 15, 2008  
Bottle. Amber brown with purple and a small head. Aromas are sweet malts and berries with molasses and bready yeast. Lightly spicy and vinous with woody herbal notes. Flavours are sweet toffee mailts with spiced resinous oranges. Fruity and moreish with nice spicy pine. The alcohol is not too harsh. A good warming brew.


 rocbyter (902), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 14, 2008  
Strong malt with a light hops late in the aroma. Dark amber color with a medium tan head. Light start with a sweet malt flavor in the beginning with a moderate hoppy finish. Lightly creamy palate.


Zbong (38), Lansing, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 14, 2008  
Amber pour into glass. Tastes like a pretty standard barley wine. Pretty good beer, but nothing exceptional.


 502Flavors (617), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Aug 14, 2008  
12 oz bottle into pint glass. Hazy brown pour with red notes and a good offwhite head. Aroma of mostly dough malt and light hops. The flavor is mostly robust pale malt with dough characteristics and a slight grapefruit hop finish with lots of alcohol that wasn’t really offensive but was definitely not hidden well. A very warm beer. Medium bodied. Overall: fine beer, and potent, but not close to the best example of the style.



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