Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

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

Daytona 500 tasting. Bomber, 2007 vintage. Dark amber with a tan head. Sweet caramel nose, bold and fruity, some earth. Flavor is much the same. A bit boozy late, but the sweet malt nearly covers it. Nice!

Look is dark amber to almost red with a decent beige colored head. Smell is fruit, alcohol, caramel, malts, and hops. Taste is sweet, fruits, alcohol, grapes, and warmth.

2002 Bottle Thanks to brewbandit. The of white head is small and diminshes quickly. The bosy is hazy red-amber. The aroma is caramel, pineapple, bread, light piney hops, and faint alcohol. The flavor is pretty damn nice, bubble gum sweetness that is married to a pleasing resinous pine hoppiness that has somehod weathered the 3 years since this was brewed. Full body, acidic on the tongue, sweet and warming on the way to the gullet. Pretty damn good American barley wine that is aging very nicely, much better than some others out there.

Vintage 07 or 08 im not sure. THanks to Hellbilly for this one! Clear garnet pour with a thin beige head and minimal spotty lace. Sweet malts, dark fruits, and brown sugar on the nose. Sticky mouth-feel, medium bodied. Caramel, toffee, dark fruits, and caramelized sugar

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

This dark brown ale poured with a generous beige head. The flavor is sweet caramel malt, laced with candy sugar and with a smooth slightly bitter finish. This is a very tasty barleywine.

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.

Draught. Dark Copper. Pungent, fresh aroma, very reminiscent of Old Boardhead in its nose. Soft but sharp hops, along with fruity malt and caramel. Taste is strongly affected by a major lack of body and texture. Very hoppy (grapefruit, pineapple, orange) along with lacking very sweet malt (fruit, cherries mainly, medicine and caramel).