Golden City Centurion Barleywine Ale

On tap at falling rock: red, amber color little head. Aroma of coffee, molases and some plum juice. Taste/feel: very sweet malt taste slight notes of chocolate cherry. Low carbonation, vinous feel. This is the smoothest tasting barely wine I have had. Very nice.

Good caramel/raisin/brown sugar malt character with a low hop presence. Virtually still with a strong syrupy quality. Alcohol is present. Chewy. A nice after dinner sipper, but not exceptional.

2002 vintage. Very sweet and malty smell. A bit old, wasn’t properly stored. Still not bad after sitting in the garage for 6 years, held up well. Large malt flavor, with a bit of bitterness in the end. Cloudy dark brown color, no head whatsoever. Still not too bad.

12 oz bottle.
Ar: Raisiny, with some sweet, carmelly malty notes, No hops, (7/10) 6/12
App: Med Amber, cloudy/muddy, no head, but a light ring of off-white bubbles at the edge of the glass, (3/5) 2/3
Fl: Malty sweet up front with a fruitiness that lingers. Some hop bitterness, but little hop flavor ( a touch of citrus as it warms). Finish that tends on the bitter side. A little more malty than hoppy - a start that is malty dominated and a finish that is bitter doiminated. (7/10) 14/20
Mouthfeel: full body - coating, light carbonation, warming. little astringency, if any. chewy. (4/5) 4/5
OA: I’d call this a malt-forward barleywine. it’s definitely sweeter than hoppy, although as it gets warmer, the hop flavor comes through. Overall, pretty tasty, but I think that the hop character could be increased or the malt could be decreased to make it a liittle more balanced. (14/20) 7/10

Draft. Body-nice iced tea body with a medium ring of bubbles. Nose-light ass funk, English barley wine, scorched caramel. Taste-stale (in a good way), stale hops, cheap caramel, fruity esters from the yeast, lightly dusty, good, damn sold barley wine that verges on the edge of too sweet, but it keeps it reigned in.