Lakefront Beer Line Barley Wine

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

Pour is a orange out of the tiny bottle. TONS of floaties. The bottom of my glass if full of stuff. Aroma is caramel malts with a huge dose of alcohol. Flavor is not as much in your face as the aroma. Dark fruit is the main thing that stands out then a super sweet candi sugar hits you. Still average at best as no hops make an appearence.

pours a hazy honey clour with hardly any head and large chunks. aroma of alcohol very little malt and i think i smell some kind of gas like kerosine. flavour is alot of alcohol very pungent and bitter and a bitter after taste. it seems to burn my senses.

Bottle from Styles, July ’06. Oxidized aroma, medium amber in colore and failry clear with a disturbing slimy sediment layer. Fairly alcoholic. Not a lot of redeeming qualities to find favor in.

The aroma is filled with malted grains, plums, sugar, and alcohol. The appearance is copper with a tiny head and lots of floating chunks. The flavor has toffee, hard candy, alcohol, vinegar, and grassy hops. The palate is smooth. The aftertaste is cereal grains. This is not a great Barley Wine.

1997 vintage Extremly cloudy large chunks of something in the bottom of the glass over an off orange color w/ a tiny soapy white head. Aroma is a carmel malt lots of alcohol touches of cereal and even a bit of piney grassy hop. Palate is full well coated and lightly creamy. There is something a bit off in the flavor it is very mellow w/ alcohol and toffee, i think most of the hops died out w/ the age but some resins are still present then there are some lingering dark fruits and syrups. This is far from a good barley wine but it’s not too bad. I wish there wasn’t so many big chunkies floating in it.

6 oz bottle, via kp, 2000 vintage. Pours a mostly clear copper colored body with a few small chunkies, despite a very careful pour, with zero head. Aroma is all malt with a good dose of alcohol. Some moderate oxidation notes of madiera and light soy. Heavy oxidation comes out in the flavor, but not in an especially pleasing way, even for a fan of aged beers. Otherwise, alot of toffee and alcohol, especially alcoholic on the finish. Mouthfeel has some life left in it, nice soft carbonation and medium bodied but the alcohol thins it out a bit on the finish. Overall, this was OK, but it didn’t seem to hold up to the aging very well.

Saw this at Belmont and i didnt recognize it and it was only like a 1.25 so i had to get it. I dont think this is as bad as it is rated but it still isnt that great of a barleywine. I really dont like the massive amount of sediment, especially considering there is only 6.3 oz in the bottle. There were small yeast pieces and also big chunks of stuff. I was also suprised how hot this beer still was. I have the millenium edition and it still seemed a little agressive for only being 10%. Flavor was very sweet and had some dark fruitiness and some bread flavor. Not too bad but i can see why this has been sitting around for 6 years.

Sample at Indy tasting Dick’s 96th - Aroma of sweet honey, malt, butterscotch, and alcohol. Pours chunky gold with no head or lacing. Flavor is also sweet with some golden raisin, alcohol, and hops. Palate is sticky and tart. Well, looking at the other ratings, it seems a small sample did this beer a favor. I didn’t even know it was suppossed to be a barleywine.