Grand Lake Super Chicken Barley Wine

Brewed by Grand Lake Brewing Co
Style: Barley Wine
Grand Lake, Colorado USA

CLoudy burnt caramel pour, basically headless. Dried fruit, alcohol, soya and molassas aroma. Sweet, fruity with a sour finish. Very thin body.

Bottle at Klub-tasting - thanks Jannik. Clear red/amber - offwhite head. Raisins, berries, ryebread, lovely hoppy, sweetness, light glue, light alcoholic, sharpness, fruity, dark fruits, caramel, sopay, piney. OK !!

Flaske. Lys rødbrun i farven, næste intet skum. Duft af brød, mørke frugter, karamel og ikke særlig alkoholisk. Smag af humle, karamel, sødlig. Skjuler alkoholen godt. God humlet eftersmag.

Bottled. Semi clear brown coloured with a small fast disappearing head. Thin bodied, with notes of caramel, pine, soap and hops.

12oz bottle, pours dark amber with a thin off white head. Aromas of Caramel, toffee, dark fruits and booze. Flavors of caramel, dark fruit, and alcohol. Nice and warming. Palate is decent but could be better.

12oz silkscreened bottle $4.29. Dark, ruby red with a sticky yet minimal off-white head. It smells like hops and cherries soaked in alcohol, maybe a little too much alcohol. Body is kind of thin and the flavor is sparse but does taste like dark fruit. Alcohol is immediately warming and noticeable. I’m a little let down by this beer to be honest. Its not bad, just a very average barleywine and I had trouble finishing the glass, ended up pouring out the last four ounces because it was a chore to drink. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 10-29-2008 02:43:52

Bottled. Poured near-clear milky golden with a faint dusting of toffee-colored head. The aroma picked up aged caramel, spiked toffee, and a heavy darker fruit contingent with sweeter, lighter fruit underpinnings.. some decent components, but only decently put together. The flavor opened with some fruity sourness that carried through the finish (and was in cahoots with the prickly alcohol).. mostly caramel core with a bouquet of fruits at the core.. finished warm with lots of residual sugar and some booze. Heavier-bodied with low carbonation on the palate.. never felt poor on the palate, nor did it feel great.

Courtesy hopscotch. Pours clear, nice looking amber red, with a small swirly of white head. Really sweet, fruity notes up front, lots of berries and woodsy esters in there. Almost a touch too much. The flavor is also more on the sweet side for barleywines and lacking bitterness. Not much of a hop profile at all. Alcohol is masked by the sweetness I think as well. A touch sweter than I prefer, but the flavor isdefinitely there.