Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

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

Pours murky, cloudy brown with no head, just a white foam ring around the rim of the glass. Aroma of earth, pear and caramel apples. Flavor has notes of caramel, tobacco, plum, raisin, apple, wood, molasses and ending with cherry. Pleasantly sweet, enough hops provided for balancing purposes. Feels like more of an English-style Barley Wine to me. Alcohol content is present but very smooth. Full round body with subtle carbonation.

Bottle. Pours a very nice clear dark amber with biege head. Aroma of Floral, malt, with alcohol aroma. Tast is very sweet, malty, hints of roasted grains, nice hop flavor and alcohol spice. Full body with medium carbonation. Good beer!

(Bottle at Pikkulintu on 2008-06-04) Deep potr wine red colour. Very small tan-coloured head. Black currant and malts in nose. Full sugary palate. Dried plum, caramell and liquorice in taste. Slight bitterness in aftertaste. I liked this one.

Bottle at Chris_O’s 19th April 2008 tasting. Pours a cloudy reddish amber. Very sweet, with cola and chocolate malt flavours in the ascendancy. The aroma is similar. Decent weight but not a great barley wine.

Update: Bottle at Andy’s. Deduct two aroma points and add one appearance from 9-4-8-5-15. I think this is real nice, and it was very difficult to determine this was a 10.5% beer....

On the brown side of the spectrum, with an off-white head. Nice sherried malt aroma with a little hop bite to it. Big malty carmel flavor with a hop bite/alcohol finish. I thought it was decent and the alcohol character matched up and blended with the beer.

Dark and sludgy brown; somewhat of a brick-like red edging with a thin tan top of compact cappucchino-like frothyness, fades somewhat feverishly to a thin ring and very minimal spots of lace in a glaring clearish coat. Aroma is of subdued malts rendering some fairly heavy molasses tones mixed with some plum and raisin and bits of smokey-like toffee. Warmth subsides within as some brandy-like alcohol seeps into the nose. Taste has more of the same with a slightly weakened front end but fills up with a dark fruity malty presence across the palate where plum, molasses, and toffee leak into a substraining mix of lightly textured chocolate spices and sugared candy caramel towards the finish. The chocolate tones are light and late with a nice little effective dryness thats favorable and welcomed. Flavors need to be bolder, heavier, richer, what have you, there's not much happening and it's length is tempered. It's feel is comparable with a good medium body and texture and has just enough edge in what could be justified as a hop profile of somekind and its warming of alcohol is sufficiently present within bigger gulps with a slight stinging twinge. A bit tame by my standards, but not bad.

this barley wine is cool looking, almost no head, super dark almost maple syrup color, some hops on the nose but not too much sweet caremel , flavor is good malts with dried fruit and a touch of hops to balance it all out. Really nice one really enjoyed it. Bought in Halifax

Dark brown almost black with an average head. Aromas of molasses, brown sugar, and sweet malts. Slightly hoppy, strong in alcohol, strong sweet malty flavor with some oak, caramel, and molasses.