Lakefront Beer Line Barley Wine

Formerly brewed at Lakefront Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

10th Ann. bottle from Ugh I believe. Amber, completely flat. Aroma has a very strange oxidation that’s hard to pinpoint, old grapes? Otehr than that straight forward carmel. Huge oxidation in the flavor. Toffee sweetness fades fast to cardboard and nothing else. Thins out quite a bit through the middle and finish.

Pours out of a petit little 6.3oz bottle pours a sediment chunky dull copper with tan head. Boy, that’s not much beer. Looks like a couple of quaffs. The aroma is nice with caramel and toffee that give way to dark fruitiness and hints of citrus hard candy. The flavor is nice and smooth with a suitable somewhat thick mouth feel. The flavor starts with pine and citrus sweet hop flavor that slowly build to a mild bitterness that is a little out of place. Along with the hops are mild caramel candy and toffee candy sweetness. The dark fruitiness really takes a back seat to the other flavor notes. Tasty.

Date: 12/01/2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy burnt orange, scant head, sweet yet hoppy aroma with a touch of yeasty esters, light malt flavor followed by a very long hoppy then bitter finish, well balanced, lots of complex lingering hops, not a typical barleywine but quite tasty
-------- /> Date: 01/21/2005
Score: iii to ii

does not hold up as well in a full bottle as it does in the sample, becomes typical

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Score: *4
-------- /> The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Tiny li’l cute 6oz bottle. Appearance is a chunky as hell caramel colored barley wine with no head. Aromas include raisin, alcohol and caramel. Flavors of alcohol, caramel, licorice. Strong alcohol presence, not too drinkable.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy copper with no head and no lacing. Aroma of astringent alcohol, hairspray, and kerosine. Tastes like hoppy gasoline. Drain Pour.

Like everyone else says...tastes like ______ (fill in the blank). It throws a lot at your pallate. I don’t have much to compare too as this is my first Barley. I think I’l get a more reputable brand next time.

A gentle pour off the tiny bottle brings forth some yeasty chunks into the dead, hazy, whisky-colored beer in my glass. Mild stickiness apparent upon swirling. Caramel is strong in the aroma with light, peaty smoke and roasts, mild fruit and delicate ABV. Tasting finds a sweet, woodsy, alcoholic nectar... crossing that line from a beer to something much, much more. I am simply confounded by the low percentile numbers above.

<font size=-4>Sampled at <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Events-Detail.asp?Eve Vintage Beer Fest 2007</font>

Interesting beer to pour as it is definitely unfiltered an has large chunks in it. Aroma is very much barley as is the flavor. This is a very strong beer to drink and sipping is plenty for me. Small bottle, but it packs a flavor punch! Alcohol content is definitely high and it comes out in both flavor and after effect. This one is like drinking a strong mixed drink rather than a beer. It is too strong for casual drinking but makes a nice change of pace. I enjoyed it.