New Glarus Tail Wagger

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

(Bottle, courtesy of Lumpy) Pours a clear copper body with a small white head. Aroma reminiscent of a quality vintage English ale with caramel malt, maple, fruit, and spices. Flavor is a bit disappointing in comparison to the aroma; spoiled fruit, caramel, and malt.

Deep orange body, shows signs some roasted malts. Nose is mostly carmel with a well hidden alcohol. Flavour was thin for the nose, of burnt candi sugars. Lacked the hoppy bite needed to support the malts.

Bottle at the 2006 Chromefest. Poured orange brown with a small head. Aroma of caramel, hops, and brown sugar. Pretty sticky stuff. Big caramel taste, slightly burnt. Big hops. Nice beer but awfully sweet for me.

Bottle. Nose-caramel corn, sweet caramel. Amber body with a light ring of bubbles. Taste-deeply caramelized sugar, honey, sweet, good amount of hops all the way through, brown sugar, and sticky. Above average barley wine, but by no means mind-blowing. Some time may benefit this one. I’ll try another in the distant future.

Brown/red color with only a ring of white. Aroma is huge sweet caramel malt. Lots of dark fruit. Flavor is jumbled mix of dark fruit, sweet malt and some nuttiness. Body is full but alcoholic in a way that sticks in the throat. The aroma is better than everything else.

Bottle that Eyedrinkale just gifted to me at the Heavyweight Open house, sweet and thanks Mike. I pop the cap and the barleywine sweetness hits my hose right away. I pour it into a scotch glass and it pours with a lot more bubbles than I expect from a BW. The color is a lucid copper, can see right through it. Again, as I sit almost 2 feet away from it I can smell that strong BW aroma. Up close, the aroma has a strong carmelized sugar background to the sweet malty BW foreground. Much more carbonated than most BWs. Body is lighter than most BWs but mouthfeel is very syrupy, a weird dichotomy. Some baked cookie flavor in the background and a slight hop bitterness at the end. I think it is a well crafted BW but the palate and weak taste need some more work.

12 oz bottle courtesy of The_Enemy. This beer pours to a slightly hazy, deep golden to light amber color, with a tight white head that fades, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with lots of good malt aromas of fresh baked bread, caramel, and toffee. The palate is slightly slick on the tongue with really outstanding sweet malt, toffee, and fresh bready malt flavor. This beer finishes with those fantastic malt flavors up front, then ends with enough hop bitterness to cut the sweet malt character, and some warming alcohol that lingers. Outstanding barleywine from one of Wisconsin’s elite craft brewers.

Many thanks go to BA orbitalr0x for this Wisconsin Barley Wine. The beer came in a brown, 12 oz. bottle, with a plain but informative label. When poured into a wine glass, the beer looked anything but plain. The body was deep reddish amber in color, and the ample carbonation resulted in the formation of a one finger thick persistent head.<!-- br --><!-- br --> The aroma was sweet and rich, and was laced with a latent spicy smell due to the hops. The taste was malty and smooth, and was backed by a good helping of peppery hops, and a little touch of diacetyl. Alcohol was well hidden and caused very little burn. Carbonation was active and a little prickly.<!-- br --><!-- br --> I found this to be a very enjoyable English Barley Wine. Very appropriate as a late night sipper, which is how I enjoyed it.