 lb4lb (1224), Austin, Texas, USA
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.
BREWMUSKCLES (720), WEEHAWKEN, New Jersey, USA
Jul 4, 2008 it should be news to very few that this brew would have a wonderful fragrant and inticing taste profile. i mean where do you consistantly find a better malt character in any brewer. slick velvet and candy sweet with everything you want in a malt brew and more. so well balanced and my bottle had zero broomstraw attitude. just superfresh and clean tasting aged malt. alcohol taste that doesnt bother. pleased and still slightly surprised that ths hop character is a little mute. but again we do have a wonderfully complex and tasty brew with find body very good balance and fine sipping warmth even on a warm day.
Beerman6686 (504), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 2, 2008 Pours a nice reddish brown color. Aroma was very strong, of dark fruits, sweet malts and alcohol. Flavor was very malty, not all hopped up like many other american barleywines.
Merrill (16), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jul 2, 2008 A lovely, dark amber from a bottle from Kenwood Liqours. Light tan head, very malty aroma with caramels and candy. many barleywines (in th US) call themselves Barleywine "stye" - some are really barleywines disguising themselves for public consumption and some are really not barleywines, bgive the drinker a good idea of what they ar taling about. This is one of the latter. A strongh caramel and stong hops, but very drinkable comared to some of the real BW’s out there.
Heathen (420), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Jun 30, 2008 THOUGHTS: I was amazed to be trying a Lagunitas that wasn’t an IPA or an American strong ale. But boy, does it still pack on the hops. A nice barley wine, but nothing I haven’t had before. Really not all that much different than the other Lagunitas beers.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, medium to dark orangy red with a small to average, off-white head that mostly diminished and left fair lacing at first and then virtually none. The aroma was moderate to heavy caramel malt, light to moderate pine and citrus hops, a little fruitiness and alcohol. The initial flavor was very lightly sweet, lightly acidic and bitter; while the finish was moderately sweet, lightly acidic, and moderate to heavily bitter with an average to long duration. There was some sort of citrus then light caramel malt then very sweet malt with a little fruitiness, then some pine and a final finish of citrus hops. The medium to full body was sort of syrupy with lightly fizzy carbonation and a light to moderate alcoholic finish.
theshocker (322), Marietta, Georgia, USA
Jun 29, 2008 American style BW, but a bit less hoppy and maltier than bigfoot. Malty aroma, plums and raisins. Flavor matches, with a balanced bitterness. Heavy mouthfeel, smooth finish. Prettttttttttty good.
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