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Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine  - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine

Petaluma, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6123.84/5.03.83/5.0Spring11%89.5Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Our annual BarleyWine is brewed to last, but hard to hold on to.
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 Dedollewaitor (3625), Odense, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 21, 2008  
Bottle@VinensVerden,Odense. Pours deep brown with a creamy off white head. Super sweet malty aroma, caramel & bread. Oily, slick, soft & smooth. Warmth from alcohol. Good dose of American hops. Nice!


 hoplover406 (204), Crofton, Maryland, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
May 19, 2008  
Bottle. Amber brown with small, off white head. Caramel, dark fruits, brown sugar, and hops in the aroma. This was a great beer and reminded me why I love barley wines.


 thewolf (5635), Kolding, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/514/20
May 19, 2008  
Bottle @ thewolfs pre-festival tasting, Kolding.
[thank you, dedollewaitor]
Pours deep red-brown with a small, creamy, off-white film head. Aroma has caramel and a good dose of fruity American hops. Fine oily mouthfeel. Good balance of malts, alcohol and hops. Lots of sharpish citric and softer fruity hops, good base of sweet caramel. Nice BW.


 mgumby10 (1844), Jupiter, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
May 18, 2008  
Pours a dark copper amber color, with a big fluffy light tan head. Nice lacing. A little bready, with a lot of dark malt and dark fruit, especially apples and figs. Pretty standard barley wine aroma. Maybe got a touch of gingerbread in there as well. The flavor seems to have a large dark fruit presence as well. I got some plums, grapes, and apples all fighting for supremacy. The bready yeast flavors I usually get in BW’s were seemingly kept under wraps for the most part. Not too bitter for a barley wine, I rather enjoyed this brew.


 tgncc (796), Bellmore, New York, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/515/20
May 16, 2008    Updated: Sep 7, 2009
Nice aroma of malts, candy sugar, caramel, bread. Appearance is a beautiful ruby red, thin white foam. Flavor is very sweet, fruit, bread, caramel. A little bit of the alcohol comes through, but not much considering the 11% ABV. Finish is fruity, slight piney hop bittering, booze. Very nice! Calssic Barley Win, and a good representative of the style. Thick and oily mouthfeel. Awesome


 milewide (609), Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/515/20
May 16, 2008  
Carmel, sweet and alcohol are main flavors. Hop level is good, but I can’t taste them over the malt sweetness. Dark amber color and good head.


 pintsize (1042), Austin, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
May 14, 2008  
5-14-08 bottle
Semi thick amber maroon color with a nice huge ivory colored thick head. Smell is sweet caramel and brown sugar. Flavor is sweet and syprup like with some alcohol present. Palate is thick and creamy and matches the flavor and theme nicely. Overall, quite drinkable but just a hint too much burning sugar in the flavor for me - in addition to the hefty alcohol that becomes much more prominent in the aftertaste.


 lb4lb (2011), Austin, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/105/513/20
May 14, 2008  
maroonish amber pour with a lasting beige head. Looks nice. Smell is kind of a dull non-descript cardboardy sweetness. Taste is fairly sweet up front, but balanced beyond that with moderate hopping and some alcohol presence as well that I don’t particularly care for. Has some syrupy, yet balanced alcohol and pine flavor, but not abundantly flavorful...The malt is kind of cardboard like and dull. Slick, thick syrupy mouthfeel but with a soft prickly bite. If only the smell and flavor were as nice. Found it to be a bit above average, but not spectacular.



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