 jgb9348 (2507), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 20, 2009 Super hazy ruby coloured body with a thinnish off-white head. Nice looking! Aroma of strong sweetness, a lot of fruit, malt, caramel and a good hoppy scent. Nice oaky flavour with vanilla noticeable up front with tons of hops and a load of sugar - a lot of absolutely everything. A huge beer, no matter how you look at it! Overall, almost too much, but nothing horribly wrong with it. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors on 23-June-2005 at Jon(R888710)’s.
topherh (931), Kearney, Missouri, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jan 14, 2009 Pours reddish copper. Aroma is big hops and caramel. Flavor is lots of sweet malt, some dark fruit, with a bitter hoppy finish.
3Faveryrogue (89), Asslip, Illinois, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 14, 2009 Dark amber pour with medium head that never really disappears. Delicious barleywine smell, with strong fruit, caramel and malt in the nose, not so much the hop. Medium mouth. Under carbonated. Very sticky on palate and much lacing on glass. Tastes especially sweet finshing up. Not my favorite, but gets the job done.
tturner (106), , Washington, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jan 14, 2009 starts hoppy moves into a nice maltyness and finishes a dry bitter.
otherwise the commercial description pegs it for me. one of my favorite barely wines in many years.
brokephibroke (142), Mead, Colorado, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 7, 2009 Pretty ruby/copper clear pour with a medium lasting tan head. Pine citrus aroma with a bit of molassas and alcohol. Thick and coating the hops are delivered to the entire palate and the slight carbonation takes it to the next level. Taste is full, long lasting and balanced. Grapefruit, caramel and woody pine all present. Yes!!
ajwilliams (118), , Indiana, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 7, 2009 Deep red pour with a silky lasting head. Aroma of faint floral hops and sugar. Sugary flavor with a ton of hoppy bitterness. The kind of horseradish, sinus-clearing hops that you wouldn’t expect from a barleywine. Sticky sugar alcohol mouthfeel. What I was looking for.
drjay44 (799), Salida, Colorado, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 4, 2009 22 oz. bottle. Pours a thinnish, beige head, good duration, some lacing, over a clear, coppery, amber body.....nose huge of resin and pine, some caramel malt tones.....tastes of heavy malts initially with some caramel, then balancing and lingering hop bitterness....mouth feel is heavy, sticky and chewy.
17thfloor (1492), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 2, 2009 Pours a muddy murky opaque dull orangish brown with a nice creamy fluffy light beige head. Strong sweet caramely bitter piney aroma, a bit of fridgy ambrosia. First taste is really sugary and quite full and fluffy, nearly burnt caramel (reminds of me of burnt popcorn), bitter resiny earthy hops, lightly floral, some ambrosia like creaminess. Strong flavors, but nothing extraordinary or mind-blowing. This stuff is 2 notes, huge caramel and bitter pine. I wish they would date stamp this stuff, I can tell the hops have faded a bit. I was hoping to rate this fresh as its supposed to be a hop bomb. I have another bottle I’ve been aging for a year for later. Full bodied, sugary, creamy with fluffy carbonation. Finishes very bitter. A tasty beer that could really use some oak aging... ooo that would be good.
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