Nils Oscar Barley Wine

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Barley Wine
Nyköping, Sweden

Bottle, got from Phil L’s Cave Direct Beer Merchants consumed 02-09-08 Pours amber with amazing clarity, nice soft sugar and barley sugar sweets on the nose. The taste is actually very smooth and surprisingly creamy with barley sugar sweets again and toffee, not a lot else but very nice all the same, I might age a bottle for a few years.

bottle - thanks hogfodder!! pours crystal clear and dark gold; lots of carbonation with thin white head along the edges; very strong and sweet with aromas of stale malts, sugar and touch of ethanol; kind of strange, but fairly tasty; raw and grainy;

Pours golden-amber with a small white head. Lots of caramel , sugar, and alcohol in the nose and flavor; quite simple in fact. Palate is a little thin as well. Not very impressed with this one.

Sucker has wildly varying ratings. Bottle. Absolutely stunningly lovely fruity nose, with berry, light cherry, figs, dates, oranges, caramel, pine, pepper, and a luscious grapey malt. A little dust, a little hint of resin, and subtle floral notes. Amber-orange body with a creamy beige head. Taste is rich and malty, very sugary and a little rough with significant alcohol warming, though nothing like what Avery puts out. Full, slippery body, lovely fruity accents detected in the nose have all but disappeared. Taste is a bit thin, all told. I really would like to try an aged bottle, see if the little yeasties can take out some of the sweet. Definitely the equivalent of a dessert wine.

Bottle. Vintage 2000. Thank you so much Per for bringing me this 8-year (!) old bottle. Deep amber color with no head and with lots of floaties. Aroma has malt, alcohol, some Port-wine notes, some caramel and fruits. Sweet malty flavor with caramel, some honey, light toasted hints, some fruits, and a rather dry finishe with alcohol. Medium to full-bodied, slightly oily in texture. Not a great Barley Wine but still quite enjoyable nonetheless.

Clear amber with a thin sheen. Big pit fruit, malty sweet aroma with mild oxidation. Smooth medium body. Decent pit fruit sweet flavor with a nice alcohol spice twang to finish. Not sure if this beer was cooked, aged or both.

Bottle. A medium golden color with a white laced head. A malty, sweet, fruity apple and honey aroma. Smooth with a nice tangy bitter bite at the finish. A lot of fruits in the flavor with a brown sugar finish and light spice throughout.

Orange clear with a thin small bubbled white head. Sweet sticky nose, but not rich or malty. Some caramel and vanilla. Small toast and light alcohol. Thinner body, low carbonation. Not quite watery. Astringently sweet. Light malt. Very small hops, some alcohol. Pleasant enough. A little fruity and dry in finish.