Odell Curmudgeons Nip

Brewed by Odell Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Blind rating. Pours coppery brown with a patchy off-white head and spotty lacing. Aroma is perfumey floral hops, caramel malt (cookie). Caramel malt and brown sugar, medium bitterness and acidity, sour oxidized flavor, acidic perfuemy hop finish. Warm and medium bodied, dry and fizzy palate.

Bottle (from ’98)... .. Reddish Brown w/ Fast tan head. .. … Malty aroma, very sweet, carmel candy smell. .. .. Carmelly, malty, smooth, long sweet finish. YUMMY! Not much hops, but enough to sort of balance the sweetness. .. .. Lt carbonation, Heavy body - mouth coating. .. .. Wow, unbelievably smooth and malty. . ... .. . Very smooth and tasty Barleywine. Age is king!!

Beer pours a clear, medium caramel color with a small, white, frothy, mostly and rapidly diminishing head.
The aroma is malty with moderate notes of husky toasted grain, sweet cookie and caramel; hoppy with light notes of herb; malty with light notes of dough; moderate miscellaneous notes of candy sugar, light notes of raisin and sherry (teetering on cardboard).
The flavor is heavily sweet and lightly bitter with a long, lightly tangy, moderately sweet, moderately warm, lightly biter finish. Big date/raisin retros. The body is medium-to-full, the texture is syurpy and the carbonation is soft.

12oz. bottle. Fairly clear copper color with a small off white head. Caramel malt aroma along with some raisins and yeast. Mildly sweet malt flavor with some dark bread, raisins and an alcoholic finish.

Earthy, grassy, herbal hops with coffee-like roastiness in the aroma. Hazy copper coloured body with a low white head that recedes to ring. Brown sugar, caramel and herbal hops blend nicely together leading towards a fair finishing bitterness that does not last. Somewhat stale toasty aftertaste. Medium body with fine bubbled, gentle, soft carbonation that caresses the tongue. Bottle sampled at DenverLogan’s GABF wrap-up.

(Bottle, courtesy of DenverLogan) Pours lightly cloudy amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, mild citrus, and dark fruits. Flavor of malt, caramel, and spices.

In the bottle. 2004 vintage. A very dark amber color with no head. Woody aroma. Oak flavor with raisins. Big bubbles, strangely carbonated for the style. I like!

Bottle. Hazy tawny brown color with a ring of bubbles. Nose- raisin, alcohol, fig, grape, plum. Taste- bitter to the point of acrid on the back, malty (in that sweet malty kinda way), cardboard (not bad), some very light banana, toffe/caramel. They keep the sweetness in check, which is nice. The hops are only detectable in the bittering. Not bad, and I would call this an English style barleywine (although the malt bill leans a little on the American side). Very enjoyable in a mild barleywine kinda way. Peppery finish.