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Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

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bottled
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9833.49/5.03.48/5.010.2%47.6Snifter
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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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.


 punkrkr27 (614), Berkley, Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Opaque mahogany pour with a ruby highlight and a small off-white head. Lots of sweet roasted malt aroma with some plum, grapefruit, and raisin. Licorice, cocoa and roasted malts definitely dominate the flavor with notes of molasses, orange peel and fig with a kick of alcohol at the end. Creamy medium body with a good dose of carbonation. Decent complexity but it just doesn’t blend quite as nicely as a good barley wine should.


 Baumgartner (108), Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Aug 8, 2008  
Bottle poured to glass. Roasted malt aroma and citrusy hops to balance it. Deep redish/brown hue with an average white head. Heavily roasted Malt flavor and moderatly hopped to balcnce. Fairly lond after taste to follow. Turns slightly acidic at the finish.


 Magicdave6 (5425), London, Greater London, England
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 7, 2008  
Bottle at my new home in London:) Aroma is big rich sweet malt, mollasses character and some berry character. Taste is similar, big and super malty, like still alright an does the job, but a bit too rich and malty to be great.


 MitchWayne (264), Kokkola, Finland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/517/20
Aug 7, 2008  
It’s barley wine and not available here that much so every new one I can taste is bound to get a positive rating. Nothing earth shattering but still a nice sweet barley wine, missing the crucial bite to make this much more than an above average barley wine in my books.


 mabel (2590), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Aug 4, 2008  
[1264-20080405] 12floz bottle. Roasted raisin syrup aroma with burnt grainy malt booze. Hazy, dark red brown body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head and lots of stagnant floaties. Burnt grain malt flavour with sweet toasted yeast, hints of coffee, and a bit of medium boozy wood notes. Medium-full body. Interesting, nice balance.


 petermadsen (391), Vesterbronxxx, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 3, 2008  
A malty, grainy barleywine with a very fine flavour of malt, some orange hop notes and some fruit. Very balanced bitterness and very much a wine.



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