Odell India Barley Wine

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

This is a good beer but WTF man. I needed a pair of vice grips and a wine rabit to get the fxn cork out. Not to mention only after I realined my teeth, on both sides. This is a double IPA with no sign of BW in sight. Good strength of flavor, hop, malt, aroma but very IPA. I don’t believe in naming your beer "whatever". Your beer is a style not a marketing ploy. This is a damn good DIPA though. Big effers, big hop component, balanced. Seriously, I laughed my ass off at how much effort I used to get this freakin cork out. The cork is in three pieces. Definitely a unique experience.

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with a medium cream head. Aroma of grass, caramel, orange, apricot, and pine. Flavor of hops (juicy citrus, pine, grass), caramel malt, and earth with a dry, bitter finish.

750 ml bottle. Pours a clear copper with a large beige head that lasts till the beer is gone. Towards the bottom it is a murky brown with a thin head that lasts. Taste is of pine, hops, citrus, resin, malt and some caramel. Similar aroma. The body is a little thin and oily. The alcohol is hidden well. Easy to drink and pretty enjoyable. Worth getting again.

Bottle. Pours hazy copper with a large, frothy off-white head, lasting with good lacing. Aroma is sweet candied hops that give way to caramel malt, perfume hops, and an alcohol nose. Fig, plum, peach, and date notes. Lightly sweaty hops and yeast at the end. Green, spicy hop flavor with an alcohol warmness, malty, chewy hops with a fruit character. Full bodied, dry finish, sweet, acidic, and spicy.

Bottle 75cl. @ post Borefts BF 09 hotel tasting
Unclear with many body particles (even hop peaces) medium orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, heavy hoppy, flowers, perfume, grapefruit. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091031]

Sedona river water in color...muddy burnt orange with a eggshell head that left web-like remnants on the inside of the glass. Aroma has bright grapefruit, Ponderosa pine, and floral qualities but shows a bit of honey late. Similarly, the flavor is more IIPA than barley wine and is quite hop-forward. There is just enough caramel malt to consider it for the category. Thick but not syrupy, this one might sneak up on you. A really tasty beer. Well done.

Bottle, thanks Peter. Murky tan, white head. Nose is nice citrus & pine hop character, caramely malt, green grapes. Flavor is great bitter pine, a little soap, caramel, honey, alcohol. Big but not over the top huge. Fruity pithy bitter finish.

750ml Bottle that was a bit of a gusher. Muddy light amber color, topped by a dense off-white head. Amazing hop aroma full of citrus fruit and pine. Juicy grapefruit-like hop flavor, accompanied by floral and fruity malt notes. The hops make this seem more like a IIPA, but there is a light malt backbone that is reminiscent of an English barley wine. Nice stuff.