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Nils Oscar Barley Wine

Percentile
86
overall
Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Barley Wine

Nyköping, Sweden

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3403.48/5.03.47/5.09.5%46.4Snifter
Commercial Description:
Translation from website: "A beer with a strong, and obvious sweetness. Drink it now, or why not save it a couple of years? It will only improve with time."

This classic hearty ale started out a gold medal winner in the Swedish Homebrewing Championships in 1993, and went on to win gold in the World Beer Cup in 2000. A little something to see you through the longest darkest night.
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 EHSRanders (1120), Randers C, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Aug 3, 2007  
Bottle. Clear orange colour with medium creamy mostly diminishing head. Fruity and malty aroma. Sweet fruity flavor with alcoholic finish. Oily palate.


 Kalli (477), Falun, Sweden
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/511/20
Jul 23, 2007  
Warm orangy chocolate aroma. Mostly soft, sweet and full mouthfeel. Some fruitiness, but more roastiness. For some reason this is a miss for me as with so many Nils Oscar I try.


 faroeviking (6067), BjórtjóðveldiðBjórheimBjórsins, Faroe Islands
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 16, 2007  
Bottle. Nice deep orange colour. Creamy bubbly medium mostly diminishing nice beige head. Fruity sweet toasted caramel and malty aroma with some alcohol. Good bit sticky mouthfeel. Sweet fruity hoppines, caramel, toasty malty vinous flavour. The alcohol is noticeable but not profound. Hoppy bitter-sweetish finish.


 fonefan (11525), VestJylland, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 7, 2007  
Bottle. Clear dark amber color with a virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, alcoholic. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration good balance between malt sweetness and alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic.


estoves2 (98), Sweden
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/511/20
Jul 2, 2007  
Pours a brown/red body with a fizzy head that disapears fast. Aroma is of sour of citrus. Reminds me of fermented apples, little like apple cider. Flavor is malty, has a weak grassy hoptaste. Flavors of plums to, and little boozy. Theres a winey taste of graps to. Palate is medium thick, but for a barley wine it is rather thin.


 caesar (3034), Bunnik/Utrecht, Netherlands
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Jun 1, 2007  
Clear orange brown color, short head. Aroma of caramel malt, some alcohol, hops. Bitter and malty taste, bit sweet as well. Very nice balanced barley wine, not too dominantly hopped.


 MPA (487), Nørrebro(formerly Aalborg), Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/104/517/20
May 26, 2007  
Bottle. Amber with an off white head. Aroma of raisins, caramel, figs, plums/prunes. Sweet flavour of caramel, brown sugar, raisins and somewhat flowery.


 MesandSim (5851), London, Greater London, England
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/516/20
May 20, 2007  
A Mes rate: Bottle @ Københavnske Øldage. Lovely soft and rounded barley wine. Not the most complex I have tried but tasty all the same. Strong malt and barley sugar throughout with a good slap of alcohol for the finish.



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