Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

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

Pours a light amber/brown with a small tan head. Semi-sweet aroma of caramel and toffee, along with piny/herbal hops. Flavor is full of doughy sweet malts, with a syrupy sweet undertone, and subtle herbal hops throughout. Palate is medium/full, super smooth, and slightly sticky.

Aroma is sweet with caramel like tones that remind me of cotton candy and a hint of hops. Color is a bright clear amber with mild carbonation and a tight off white head. Taste is bold and rich. Starting with a full body it goes down with a rich almost sweet feel. Finish expands on this sweetness with a rich malt flavor that has an almost brandy like quality, then a nice bitterness rolls in with a faint hop flavor. After taste comes in sharp with the alcohol boldly standing out. Its a tasty Barley Wine but not as complex as it could be and the alcohol is a little too strong on the end.

On taps at Newport Pizza. Pours a killer black cherry color with an insane sweet malty/hops nose. The flavor has touches of brown sugar and caramel along with a tangy fruityness. The mouthfeel is very full-bodied and impressive. It finishes with a nice bit of hops and the abv is almost invisible, the only way you can tell it’s there is when you get up off your bar stool, WATCH OUT! Buy a couple 22’s and let ’em age for awhile, GOOD STUFF~

A damn fine barley wine. Deep and rich in color, nose is very hoppy with pine and citrus. Taste is quite fruity with some sweetness, rich and thick this is a keeper...

22 0z. bottle, red amber color, green grape and grapefruit nose, very hoppy with a caramel and fruit bite, very smooth for this abv, I’m out to get some more

Bottle as shown. Pours a clear copper amber color with a medium frothy light tan head. The aroma is raisin and brown sugar. Decent lacing on the glass. The taste is a sweet malt and fruit. Hides the alcohol well and easy to drink. An impressive barley wine from Lagunitas.

22 oz bottle poured into a snifter. Beautiful dark ruby red color with a small tan head with a structure of very fine bubbles. Nose is sweet and malty, earthy with a touch of fruitiness. Taste is much sweeter that I expected, very thick mouthfeel. Hoppiness comes through in the end with a definite alcohol warming present, but very little alcohol taste. Finish is a bit dry and leaves a wonderful resinous hoppy aftertaste. This is delicious! I hope I have the self-discipline to let a bottle or two of this age a bit.

On tap at Oldsmar Tap House. Poured a dark reddish copper, with a small creamy head and very sticky lacing. Subdued molasses and raisins in the nose. Hoppy flavors, and caramel and rich brown sugar. Malty, spicy finish. Balanced, soft and gentle on the tongue. Easy to sip and enjoy slowly.