Gales Jubilee Ale

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Barley Wine
Horndean, England

A Bottle in the Spytighen Duvel in Turnhout (B). It’s a medium brown colored beer. It has a beige head with big bubbles. It disappears at ones. It has a great aroma of nuts, sweet, dark malts, oak brandy and port. The taste is very rich, chocolate, dark fruits, nuts, and a port flavor. This is a great beer.

Bottle courtesy of Bockyhorsey - Pours a clear reddish-amber color with no head. Zero carbonation. Aroma is sweet malt, dark esters, and slight oxidation. Flavor is mainly esters (prune, fig). Thick and coats the tongue. A decent beer. Thanks Bill.

Another wonder of the beer world from Gales - Deep chestnut body with a long lasting big bubbled off white head; The nose i slightly oxidized in a way that quite familiar to the Prize Old Ale, when it gets a short time to breath the oxidization fades and gives way to the clearest notes of Agen Prunes I have ever experienced in something not an Agen Prune, it has something petrol like chalky to it that I cant figure out but love; The body is oily smooth, salty, bitter super serious and super complex, it has a complexity that is only found in the corked Gales brews; It finishes with a balanced alcohol burn that bite only shortly and is taken over by salty bitter notes and the oils of the texture, lots of wooden complex aromas. Incredible and excellent!!!!

Bottle. Aroma of oxiditation, caramel, alcohol, and a little port-like. Flavour of alcohol, malt, caramel, and a little acidity. Ends up very "old".

Bottle. Vintage 2002. Hazy orange-brown colour. Sweet raisin alco malty aroma. Sticky mouthfeel. The flavour is very pleasant with a sweet caramel and malty vinious alco malty flavour.

Bottle @ Yespr tasting.
[thank you, BelJohansen]
[vintage 2002]
Pours a hazy red-amber with a small off white film head. Aroma is port, vinious, caramel, musky, prunes. Fine oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Flavour is sweet, lots of caramel and port. Good, cellared BW.

[2002 vintage, session @ yespr] Hazy dark amber with tiny head. Sweet vinious aroma with prunes, plums, dates and port notes. Sweet flavor with overripe fruits, port, madeira and alcohol notes. Very complex and the agening has done it well. Lovely.

9.3 fl oz bottle, thanks to BelJohansen. Pours hazy orange with a lacing off-whit head. Thick winerous aroma. Almost woody aroma to flavour. Flavour is dry malty with a very subdued woody note. Nice lingering finish. Solid and overripe flavour with a nice malt base. Nice.