Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

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

poured into a snifter. Pours a rich ruby with a film of soapy head. Rich odor of hops and malts. Really smooth beginning, which grows as the flavor expands in your palate. Sweet caramel and sweet fruit are pretty strong in the aftertaste, but there’s just a little hint of a bitter aftertaste. Its not an intense barley wine, but I really like it.

Bottle. Pours amber orange with an off white head. The aroma is sweet and hoppy, with caramel, orange, honeydew and other tropical fruit. The flavor is well balanced with sweet caramel and fruit and a very nice shot of floral hops. Very tasty and very drinkable.

Aroma is of citrus, caramel and molasses. Very dark amber to brown in color with a large brown head and strong lacing. It’s a slight hop flavor but more sweet and cirtus... definitely traces of molasses or brown sugar. Really nice!

2008 On draft at Capital Ale House Downtown Richmond. Pours a beautiful burnt orange with fairly decent khaki head that has awesome lacing. Nose is sweet and herbal hops that come out more in the flavor. Raisins, brown sugar, piney hops, this is an amazing barlywine. No detectable alcohol on the nose or flavor, except for just the smallest enjoyable bit of warmaing sensation. Perfect moderately chewy palate, sticky sweet yet, not cloying at all. And such a reasonable price! Grade A brew!

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~

Y E S.. this beer seriously is GNARLY. It’s sweet, smokey, malty. It’s everything a world class beer should be.. I’m kinda buzzin, but if you see this beer, anywhere, you should get it.

Buy this beer. Buy a lot of it. Awesome contribution to the stylie in the old way and right way. Smells of malty sweetness with lightly toasted toffee. Taste is sugar butter on toast and raw smooth maltiness that makes this puppy addictive. Mouthfeel is seductive, leaving just enough behind to want more. Awesome beer. Thank you for the beer and the value.

bottle shared with Pyrozoid and French tickler. Copper appearance with a medium creamy bulbblely taned head. Aroma: cheeze cake, creamy, banana, prunes, dry raisons, alcohol and dates. Flavor: prunes, hops, creamy, corn syrup, alcohol, pine and oak. Palate: medium to full body, soft cabonation, creamy, oily, with a ginger alcohol finish.