Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Petaluma, California USA

Bottle. Pours a deep mahogany with a nice creamy beigh head. Aroma is malty with caramel sweetness, bread and fruity hops. Very smooth and sweet flavor of caramel malt, alcohol, dried fruit and a hint of brown sugar. Medium to full bodied with a dry and bitter finish

22 oz. bottle courtesy of Bockyhorsey - Pours a clear deep amber color with a good one finger thick light tan head which settles to a lasting film. Very light spotty lacing. Aroma is toasted malt, esters, and floral hops. Flavor is cookie dough sweet malt. Has a nice hop presences to nicely balance the flavor. Medium to full body. Slight alcohol warming on the stomach. A very nice BW. Thanks Bill.

Buttery, fruity aroma (plum, cherry, apricot). Candy sweet grassy malts, plenty of floral hops. Strong medicinal alchohol aroma. Spicy notes (cayenne, clove, black pepper). Brown sugar + toffee candy flavor up front. Fruity dominance in mid plum, apple, cherry, berry and apricot. Hoppiness comes out as a peppery grapefruit note. Lightly toasted biscuit malt finish. Moves quickly from start to finish, dosn’t have the lingering alchohol taste I find disagreeable with many B-wines. Smooth palate, some tangy mouthfeel. Clean, syrupy finish that I dig. This is my favorite B-wine

22oz bottle. Pours reddish amber in color with brown head. Aroma malt, hops and caramel. Taste malty, caramel and bitter hops with bitter finish. The alcohol is very well hinden for the high alcohol %.

22 oz bottle from Mystery Swap 3.0. Pours a nice copper color with a thin off white head. Low carbonation with a medium body. Aroma of malt, alcohol, caramel and hops. Taste like a mess of spices all thrown together with the flavor being bitter and hot. Not well balanced at all. I love barleywines but this one was a big disappointment.

22 oz bomber purchased from EZ Liquors. I’m glad that I left the price tag on this one because seeing that I only paid $3.89 for this shows that not all good beers need to be expensive. Pours a very clear orangey brown with a smaller creamy light beige head. Aroma of toffee, honey and raisin. Flavor is nice and sweet with notes of caramel and toffee and no trace of alcohol. This is one well done barley win that I wish I stocked up on.

Bottle. Fluffy long lasting yellow head. Beautiful clear dark brown body. Aroma of roasted barley malt with walnuts cocoa caramel and butter. Good. Nutty caramel sweet flavor disguising the alcohol very well. Berries notes on top of it as well. Soft, smooth, pleasant, good, whate more can I add. Close to perfection. Lovely bitter sweet and surprising. Low carbonatiion. Long aftertaste.

Pours a clear coppery orange with a thick eggshell head that lingers as a thin patina with some spotty lacing. Nose is rich and rose-like, with a sticky sweetness and more hop character than brown shugga. Starts with a fruity sweet body, goes to a medicanal warmth before melding quickly into a resiny, piney hop quality. A pretty good american barleywine.