 Beaver (598), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 24, 2007 12 oz bottle, batch 56 (thanks to Crosling!). Pours a hazy golden orange with huge yeast chunks. The head is huge and meringue-like and retains well and laces the glass some.
The aroma is sweet bready malts, fruits (melon and figs), and honey with some vinous alcohol.
The flavor is sweet sugary fruits, caramel malts and some bittering (grassy hops) and warming alcohol at the finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full with nice velvety carbonation.
Overall, a well made and well balanced barley wine. It’s definitely big, bold and intense. It loses some of its sweetness and becomes a little more harsh as it warms to room temperature.
grandet (486), Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 22, 2007 copying from my tasting notes. Bottle. Nice copper pour with a nice think head. NIce and malty with a dark fruit flavor through out. Best at room temp, and shared with other people. Very Very good
Angeloregon (2025), Portland, Oregon, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Nov 19, 2007 Hazy amber-copper body with a thick fluffy off-white head. Effervescent and malty with traces of plums, raisins, and caramel. Boozy but not cloying. Powerfully robust and uniquely intriguing. Better share this beer, because it can wreck your game. Great sipping, fireside beer for those chilly lightless days. Yum!
robforbes (1099), Bremerton, Washington, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 17, 2007 Updated: Aug 1, 2009old rating:
7/4/7/4/16 - 3.8 (batch 66)
7/4/8/4/17 - 4.0 (batch 70)
batch 75.
pours a cloudy gold with a medium to large egg-shell head that stays around with you while you drink, some sediment, and excellent lacing.
smell is malt, dark fruits, some sweetness, and burnt caramel.
taste is creamy, some fruit, caramel, touch of citrus, and a bit bitter, leaves the mouth dry and sticky.
blueturk (68), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 10, 2007 a hot beer. Beer poured slight cloudy, and could stand to age for 6 months. Nice Bigh 1.5" slightly offwhite head with assertative bitterness.
alobar (1026), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 4, 2007 Thanks to richlikebeer. Wow! Cloudy, creamy light borwn color with a white head. Aroma of malts, molasses, and hops. Molasses, malts and citrus make up the taste. One of the best I’ve had in some time.
aracauna (2391), Georgia, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 1, 2007 Cloudy amber with a really big booming head. The aroma is sharp with hops, a bit of phenols and caramel. The flavor is a little on the hot side, a bitterness that places itself more in the middle than the back.
Rune (2840), Tromsø, Norway
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Oct 28, 2007 355ml bottle - batch 69 - bought at Barley Wine, Copenhagen. A Golden Special Ale with a very robust body. It was, indeed, a great pleasure to drink this one. Fragile white head resting on a tan coloured body, slightly foggy. Moderate aroma of tart fruits and hop resin. The flavour brings lots of dry, spicy hops with dark fruits emerging over time. Long and nice bittersweet ending supported by warming and well integrated alcohol. Pleasant mounthfilling (enjoyed for an hour at home in Tromsø, 27.10.2007).
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