Middle Ages Wailing Wench

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Syracuse, New York USA

Bottle. A amber beer with a huge tan head. The aroma is malty and very hoppy, Grape/pine. The taste is dry, dusty, malty and hoppy, Peach/Pine/Grape. Medium body with a very dry finish.

From 75 cL bottle, thanks to Storm. Pours hazy amber with a white head. Quite fruity aroma with a distinct grapefruit note. Very dry almost woody flavour which then turns to a quite fruity and almost citric fruity flavour. Finish is dry and citric. Too much dryness for my liking.

22oz bottle. Strange that this is labeled as a DIPA, when it’s clearly an Arrogant Bastard clone with a bit more torque. It’s competent I suppose, but pretty uninteresting. Deep amber, fluffy head, biting hops.

An awesome ale from Middle Ages. Dark amber brown colored...looks filtered. not murky. Very nice hop bitterness throughtout. Thick caramel hop syrup aftertaste. Perfect malt and hop balance, not as one dimensional as some double IPAs. Great beer.

On tap @ Coles Buffalo NY. Nice deep amber color with fluffy head. malty & strong hop aroma. Nice bitter hop flavor well balanced with malts. ringwood yeast not as apparent as in other MA beers. pretty good. anyone know who the model for the label is?

Date: 02/16/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

dark amber, whispy head, huge fresh hop aroma on a nice sweet carmel base, big body, rich malt, lots of earthy hop flavor, well balanced with only a hint of sweetness, long bitter finish
-------- /> Date: 04/21/2005
Score: iii to ii

warms into a big bitter beer with long bitter hop flavor from start to finish with just a touch of sweetness to add some dimension, fatgues after a while

Aroma: 9/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Score: *4
-------- /> The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

draft. pours dark brown with a tan head. nice aroma of caramel and hops. the flavor is a mod - high bitter with a slightly grassy edge over a malt and molasses. unfortunately, i also taste the soapy edge that is present in their swallow wit - must be the variety of hops. this has a lot of potential , and is an interesting variation on the imperial but the acidic, soap doesn’t sit with me. other folks don’t interpret that flavor as such though (in this beer and others), so don’t let this review turn you off.

Sampled on draft at Zeno’s in State College PA this beer poured a dark chestnut color with a very small tan head. The aroma was an odd with notes of caramel and toffee. The flavor was very bitter, tangy caramel with an odd yet undesirably off flavor and a hint of smoke. The beer was rather flat. Eh.