Half Pints Burly Wine

Brewed by Half Pints Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Winnipeg, Canada

22oz bottle. Understated aroma of rum soaked dark fruits, some citrus rind, thicker, bready malt as well. Pours a thick, dark copper with virtually no head. Toasted malt, lots of citrus zest, some wet oak notes, pine resin. Assertively spicy, but there’s a delicate herbal and floral quality to the beer that makes it most interesting. Leaning toward full bodied with a perfect amount of carbonation for this style of barley wine. Thanks Scott!

Poured a clear orange copper color with a small off-white head. The aroma is moderately hoppy with citrus notes. Sweet fruity malt mixed under that. Malty flavor mixed with a fair amount of citrus and mild pine hops. Nice hop finish and warmth. Medium bodied. Light for a bw but very drinkable.

pours a light copper colour with a frutiy aroma taste of sweet malts and a touch of orange and alc.

Very sweet and floral in the nose with just a hint of alcohol. Lightly hazy golden-amber body is topped by a decent, fine bubbled, off white head that recedes to a lasting cover with some patchy lacing. Flavour offers up orange-citrus and floral hops joined by plenty of sweet malts that are rounded out by a fair bit of butterscotch. Medium bitterness doesn’t quite take the edge off the sweet, sweet malts. Pleasant graininess in the aftertaste. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Very drinkable and alcohol is bearly notable. I think I’d like it better if it had fermented down a bit more and weren’t so sweet or perhaps without the diacetyl. Snifter. Cellar temperature. Bottle (Brewery Creek, Mar-08).

(650ml bottle) Courtesy of Oakes. Purchased at Brewery Creek for $10. Pours a lasting, thin, creamy white head atop an orange-amber body. Nose of mild English hops. THis is good as I like my barleywines either young and really hoppy or old and mellow. Flavour is somewhat sweet with a good hop background below that medium malt base. Somewhat thin and cautious for such an assertive brewer but its definitely a good starting point. Now if Dave could only bring back his Centennial Wheatwine recipe....

This is the 7th beer from this brewery. The others had nothing bad, but nothing remarkable either.However this is very good. Cloudy amber with chunks,small beige head.Brown sugar molasses nose.Sweet start,Malt molasses profile,long strong bitter hop end.Med alc heat Nice

Bottle from Brewery Creek: Poured a cloudy orange copper with a sweet bread/muffin aroma and dried fruit tones. Flavour was a mouthful of sweet malt being reigned in by a touch of orange peel and alc. bitterness. Very drinkable if somewhat rough initially. Enjoyable.

Bouteille 660ml, courtoisie de Blankboy. De couleur ambrée rouge foncée et voilée. Nez malté de biscuits aux petites notes terreuses et rôties (notes de caramel toffee, de butterscotch et de sucre brun), de houblon citrique (pamplemousse), herbeux et aux notes résineuses, léger d’alcool et de fruits (cerises, traces de raisins). Moyenne-ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture légèrement crémeuse et résineuse. Goût amer de houblon citrique (pamplemousse), herbeux et aux notes terreuses (présent toute la gorgée) accompagné d’un moyen goût fruité (léger de cerises, notes de raisins vineux et d’agrumes) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût malté de biscuits, moyen de caramel sucré et légèrement rôti, léger de toffee et avec des notes de pain et de sucre brun parallèlement à un goût d’alcool plutôt réchauffant et aux notes boisées puis en finale, l’on assiste à un léger regain d’amertume de houblon légèrement plus herbeux et légèrement résineux. Post-goût long et un peu sec, amer de houblon citrique, moyennement herbeux, légèrement résineux et aux notes terreuses, moyen d’alcool et avec des notes fruitées (moût de raisins et de cerises) et boisées.