Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

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

Good slightly malty hop aroma. Smooth body which covers the alcohol well. Finish leaves you looking for another sip.

Aroma is mostly hops, ruby red/copper color, normal minimal head for a barleywine. Flavor is quite smooth, no harsh alcohols and nicely balanced malts and bitters. Mouthfeel is quite thick, coats my throat. Overall a very drinkable barleywine but nothing really jumps out at me to impress me. Just all around very smooth, finely brewed beer.

[Bottled, thanks MrWalker!] Clear reddish amber, minimal head.Striking aroma of grapefruit and caramel. Sweet and full bodied with fairly soft mouthfeel. The malt flavour is more prominent than in most American barley wines, but there are a good amount of aromatic hops as well. A very solid and well made barley wine with some personality of its own.

Bottle. Although it lacked any foam at all, it had such a gorgeous orange amber color I rated the apperance higher. Nice malty aroma, alcohol whiffs up as well. A nice syrupy sweet malty flavor with a decent balance of bitter, quite easy going down, though you know it has a kick.

Bottled: Pours dark reddish brown with a small head. Sweet aroma of chocolate toffee. Flavour is quite sweet and has more chocolate toffe and perhaps a touch of dark currants. Finish is alcohol bitter and warming.

Bottle. A dark amber color with a little bit of red and a beige head that quickly falls. Hops make a great flavor thats backed up with a little caramel sweetness finishing with a mild pine hop bitterness. Aroma isn't overly strong, but there's an earthy hopiness to it. At first sip it feels like a heavy body, but its not thick at all. Medium finish that leaves yiou wanting more. Very good beer that hides it's alcohol until about half bottle. and then just adds a warming touch. Very nice all-round balance on a well made beer.

Pours a clear copper with a smallish off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, raisin, cherry and caramel. Flavor is caramel, raisin, plum, cherry and some grapefruit. Slight alcohol warming. Medium-full body, sticky texture. Less hoppy than most American barleywines which is more true to style.

tap-falling rock tap house-2004 version-pours a ruby red hue with a nice off-white head with amazing lacing! Candy apple aroma-piney hops, green apples. The flavors here are complex and almost too sweet. cinnamon, piney hops, and sweet malts. kinda lite on the body. unique, novel, but not a great contender in the BW family. kinda unbalanced, but not in a really bad way.