Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Frederick, Maryland USA

Bottle. Vintage 07B. Pours a hazy deep red-brown colour with a huge lively creamy light brown well lasting head. Quite sweet aroma of well toasted caramel, toasted malt, ripe fruits, dark dried fruits, alcohol and slight chocolate. Very good rather sticky mouthfeel. The flavour is quite sweet with a good bitter hoppiness, caramel and brown sugar, well toasted malt, dark fruits, alcohol, and some chocolate. Quite sweet bitter finish. Great tasty brew!

Bottle. Ruby colur with a beige head. Caramel malty, dried fruits, hoppy aroma and taste. Medium to full body with a light metallic finish.

Grassy hops with hints of butter and nutmeg in the aroma. Malty, somewhat buttery flavor, dry and alcoholic, with brandy notes and grassy hops, especially in the aftertaste. Not too bad, but a bit too alcoholic to be well balanced.

A Mes rate: bottle at Chris_O’s Ha Ha Ha Ha Gimme the Cheese Tasting.
Rich amber with a thin rim for a head. I really can’t put my finger on it but there is something in the aroma that is pulling tremendously at the very depths of my memory. Possibly Kola Kube sweets. Odd rhubarb notes too. Cant’s really pin it down but I like it. Flavour is full on sweet barley wine. Loads of caramel with some bitter hoppage and some nice wooden notes. Jolly nice but the alcohol is much too harsh. Shame as everything else is pretty much on the button.

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph. Pours a very deep dark brownish red - without light behind it, it looks positively black. A nice, staying creamy off white head with good lacing. Aroma is sweet, lots of dried fruits, chocolate and Belgian sugars. Extremely creamy mouthfeel, low carbonation. Flavour is powerful, lots of sweetness with a terrific amount of caramel, roasted malts, chocolate. Lots of viniousness, but never alcoholic. This is really a nice BW.

Headless muddy copper, very austere looking. Undistinctive, chaotic unintegrated sweet mess hits the nose with aggressive chocolate, candied caramel, earthy, marshmallow notes. All very sweet and unpolished. Dusty bready yeast doesn’t exactly thrive to add balance in this. Surprisingly well contained alcohol, in an English way. Rather complex fruit suggestions range (apple, banana, grape, date..), but the amalgamation is poor, unclean. Woody, soy sauce flavours get kicked in in mouth, but the damage is done. Surprisingly small-medium body, liquorous slick texture, flatish carbonation. Weak example.

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.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of raisins, plums, and caramel. Flavor of hops, dark fruit, and vinous with a dry finish.