Mendocino Talon Barley Wine

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Hopland, California USA

Bottle. Pours an amber body with an off white thin head. Very sweet and malty up front caramel and dark fruit and heavy alcohol latent fruit. A final grapefruit note in the finish. good.

Bottle from Total Wine in Roseville, CA. Poured a brown color with a hint of red. Very sweet beer with hits of brown sugar, molasses and carmel. After it warms a little you can taste a little of the alcohol. Feels like it sticks to the inside your mouth. Not bad for the price.

22oz bottle from 2007, served in a Duvel tulip. Dark reddish brown body with a thin off-white head. Smells of chocolates, grapes, pineapple, and toffee. Tastes of mint leaves, toffee, chocolate, molasses, and dark fruit. There is a bit of warmth on the finish but not as much as I thought there would be. Slightly sticky and cloying, but not annoyingly so. Pretty good and if recall correctly I only paid $4 for it.

Bottle from total wine. very nice. Amber pour. Small head. Aroma of butter, caramel, hops, and some nice stone fruits. flavor is very nice. Matly, sweet, hoppy...flavors of spices, brown sugar, and some fruit.

Cloudy red hue, fast dissolving tan colored head and a dull feel. Strawberry sweet aroma leading to a maple like smell, there is no hop presence. Berry sweet taste to match the strawberry smell and a thickness of syrup. Alot of malt flavor makes this a very sugary beer and even though there is hops you can taste, it doesn’t match the thick malt. Palate is thick as expected from a from a scottish heavy. A pleasantly fruity and sweet version of this style.

Thanks to Secret Santa 2008. Hazy muddy amber pour. Lightly metallic caramel aroma. The flavor has boozy caramel with a touch of dark fruit and cola. Creamy slick mouth feel. While I drank the whole bottle, I just couldn’t get very excited about it. Fair.

22oz bottle, dark mahogany color, with a tan-colored head, sweet toasted, caramel malt nose, with some biscuity, toffee accents, with some fruity, apricot, marmalade, candied orange peel, dried raisin, date notes, with a light brown sugar, floral hop citrus aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a toasted, caramelized malt character, with a sweet brown sugar note, with some fruity flavors of rraisin, date and fig, with some hints of black chocolate, dark coffee and spicy licorice, leading towards a sweet malty warming finish.

Carolina Crew tasting. Bottle courtesy of Todd! Thanks! My last beer of the night. Flavor was harsh, hot and over the top. I felt the claw was scratching my insides as it went down.. Squaw