Nils Oscar Barley Wine

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Barley Wine
Nyköping, Sweden

Dark amber/orange colour with a thin diminishing head. Sweet, sugary and caramelly aroma with some notes of apples. Some raisin and roasted barley in flavour with notes of alcohol. Somewhat vinous.

carmel colored with white thin head. aroma of brown sugar, some alcohol, syrup, licorice. flavor of red ropes (licorice candy), butterscotch, pineapple juice, carmel, some citrus hints. very very good. cant tast the alcohol which is impressive at 9.5%. thanks for sharing this heemer!

From a bottle I got in a trade with oh6gdx. The body was dark orange with a thin head. The aroma was oranges with caramel. There was also coconuts and pineapples in a similar tropical note to their IPA. There was also some brandy chracter. The taste was fruity with mango and a hint of vanilla. There was caramel and a dry finish of almonds. This is very different from the hugely hopped citrus barley wines. More tropical fruit character. Good stuff.

A dark reddish brown color with an eggshell white head that is not very large. Aroma is brown sugar and raison malts and the body is damn near the same. Thanks for tha hookup heem.

Dark amber color, little vanishing yellow head. Sweet, vinous, caramelly, mildly alcoholic and port-vinous aroma, rich and excellent aroma which somehow reminds me of Samuel Adams Utopia. Full bodied, alcohol is hidden pretty well. Port-wine tones, sweetness, some raisins and plums in flavor, aftertaste lasts with sweetness, plums and medium alcohol. Maybe little bit of too sweet for my flavor, but fine alcohol flavor cuts it nicely. Wow what a Beer!

Smallish off-white coarse-laced head, subsides quickly. Body is a handsome, dark chestnut brown. At a distance the aroma is distinctly bready, but up close it becomes a mix of sweet, spicy caramel and alcohol, with stale raisins thrown in. Sweetness is a little sickly, perhaps. Broad, deep, intensely sweet taste of spicy, burnt caramel with a lovely aftertaste of charcoal malts with a faint bitterness. A taste of dry, roasted wood lingers. An excellent barley wine. I was a bit let down by the aroma, expecting more from Nils Oscar, but the taste makes up for it. (0.33l bottle.)

Bottle, at home. Dark red with a little beige head, quickly gone. Aroma heavy malty (caramel, bread, light notes of orange), light hoppy. Flavor heavy sweet, light bitter, long duration. Full body, creamy, soft carbonated. Heay in alcohol. Well balanced, very fine.

A very good pastiche from this Swedish brewer that even grow their own barley. A sweet/sour flavour, but the alcohol is dominating a bit. MAybe some time in the cellar would mellow this a bit?