Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

Sampled at Rattle n Hum. This beer put me slightly over the edge during a harmless after work tasting. Came recommended my CUJO. Amber with slight red tint with an off white head in appearance. Served far too cold! I tried to let it warm up a bit, but I was too thirsty. Generous aroma that is bready, spicey, malty, and sugary. Really is a staple Barley Wine... rich dark fruits, sherry, esters, rich brown sugars 3.75

Pours a red-orange amber with a small off-white head. The aroma is mostly sweet caramel malt, some darkfruit, and some PNW hops. The flavor is sweet, candy like malt, with some citric fruit, and caramel malt. Finishes with hop bitterness and boozy alcohol. Chewy palate, slightly oily, with soft carbonation. Sweeter or not as bitter as I had expected, but solid all around.

RnH: ’08 batch: loved this brew, would love to age it... "over the top all around... nose is like sticking your head in the barrel! Deep amber, red/brown, thin head film yet great dry, off white lacing, tons of dark fruits, cooked sugars, esters, heat, sweet, awesome, definitely fermented prunes."

Draft. 5 oz flight. Pours reddish amber with a tan, pillowy head. Aroma of vanilla, citrus, pepper, clove, barley, bread and hints of earthy hops. Medium bodied with a sweet, clean mouthfeel. Bold, strong finish. Great barley wine to close out a great tasting at Teresa’s.

22oz - I try to like barley wines. They smell great, look great too. Then I have to taste them, and for me, sometimes more is just more. There’s too much going on for me. Too sweet, too strong, too much.

Twenty ’Aught -9 pours coppery with a thin white head. Aroma is malt and pineapple hops and lots of both. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, pine and citrus hops, and alcohol.

Twenty ’Aught -9 Probably should have laid this down for awhile... Pours a deep amber red. Off white creamy head. Thick lacing. Some aroma of malt and some spices. Pretty good hop bite, probably would have mellowed if i had let it age a bit, but then i like ’em hoppy. Pretty good, pretty balanced if on the hoppy side, wish i could have kept a couple, oh well, live now! good stuff! drinkable now!

22oz bomber twenty’ aught-8. Pours a clear red with a medium fizzy fine white froth. Aroma is quite oxidized but still very pungent, sweet caramel and salty piney hops, fridge/ambrosia, citrus and toasted sugars. Really bright sweet sugary taste, salty, a sweet salty sour metallic twang, like fermenting overripe peaches, toasted caramel, ambrosia, a bit boozy towards the finish, fuselly. Medium/full bodied, lots of fizzy fluffy carbonation, fluffy viscous. This really tastes like a beach breeze wine-cooler thingy.