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Four Peaks Hopsquatch Barleywine


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A Barley Wine brewed by
Four Peaks Brewing Company

Scottsdale, Arizona USA

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Commercial Description:
What is it? Barleywines are super strength beers that have their roots in old England. They are comparable to Ports or Sherry in their sweet flavor and high potency. Ours is more of an American style in that it has been infused with massive amounts of hops. How was it made so strong? Lots of malt. In other words, lots of food for yeast. More yeast food equals more alcohol. When there is so much alcohol though, the beer needs time fore those flavors to mellow out. So we aged Hopsquatch for one year in stainless. This long aging period also allowed some of the harsh bitter flavor from the hops to buffer out and blend with all of the other flavors. This creates a fine, full flavored, very complex ale. What’s with the name? Traditionally barleywines have colorful names like, Monster, Old Nick, Sudden Death, Old Knucklehead, Old Fart, etc. Ours is no different. When we brewed it we had these metaphorical visions of a twelve foot tall hop-covered beast lurking in the cellar for a year. No body believed us, so like the legend of Bigfoot, Hopsquatch was born… That, and it sounds funny. What’s with the "Pimp-Chalice" glassware? See the above description (Hat tip to all the brewers on this one).

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 kp (6200), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/512/20
Sep 1, 2007  
Date: 12/02/2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Strong Ale Fest

cloudy amber, thin off white head, big sweet piney citrus hop aroma, great hop flavor on a balanced big sweet carmel malt base, nice light bitter finish

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **/4


 Rastacouere (5270), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 10, 2005  
Clear apricot, diminishing off-white head. Heavily aromatic hops dominate the nose and overwhelm the palate for that matter, hiding any trace of maltiness behind a crisp powdery veil. They carry on lemony and limey flavours that feel very juicy in mouth. Medium bodied, extremely dry, but fortunately not tart.


 CaptainCougar (4637), Rockville, Maryland, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 12, 2004  
GABF 2004: Pours a clear dark copper with an off-white head and thin lacing. Nice fresh hoppy, pine, and caramel malty sweet aroma. Starts rich and syrupy with lots of caramel toffee balanced with a floral hoppy bitterness. The alcohol is very well hidden under a smooth bittersweet finish. A very nice DIPA.


 JorisPPattyn (4282), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Apr 24, 2008  
’06 Vintage Good yellow head on orange-golden beer. Very hoppy (USA) nose, cookies and quite some malts. Hopoil, hopcookies or -cake, diverse dried fruits (mango, fig, peach). Burning MF, quite aggressive and harming the balance. OK, maybe enjoyable, but not really great.


 goldtwins (3734), Nesconset, New York, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Dec 18, 2005  
9th Annual San Diego Strong Ale Fest: Hazy orange color. Big malt starts the aroma but quickly becomes mixed with plenty of hops. Light notes of alcohol present. Big piney hop flavor running through. Moderate bitterness that lasts for a nice length of time. Good balance. Full bodied almost syrupy.




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