 Juelze (925), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 23, 2008 2005 Bottle - No. P10152 Edition
Pours a dark syrupy brown color with light tan head. Aroma is of intense brown sugar, dark fruits, malt, and caramel. taste is much the same but some light vanilla and peat flavors mixing it up with the dark fruit, malt and brown sugar. Very malty and a tad harsh for my liking. However, this is a decent sipper that surely will get great with age.
Petrucci914 (601), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 23, 2008 2005 Bottle - No. P10152 Edition
Pours a dark mahogany color with a thin creamy off-white head with some residual lacing. Aroma is strong - cognac, vanilla bean, dark fruit, raisin, and alcohol. Taste is about the same - very rich with vanilla and cognac. I would push this more towards an old ale than a barley wine.
roder60 (1039), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 16, 2008 2007 bottle - only have one so here it goes. Opens with little carbonation and no head except a few quickly gone bubbles. Color is hazy dark orange/brown. Aroma very sweet, bit winey, raisins, and oranges. Flavor very sweet and syrupy fruity oranges, sweet grapes and a bit of caramel cream. Overall, i can definitely see how/why this would age well. Enjoyable drink. Wish I had another to age.
grandridge (222), Port Clinton, Ohio, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 15, 2008 2005 Bottle. Pours deep amber with a large fluffy white head. Aroma is fig raisin, syrup and all other thing dark fruit and sweet. Sweet malty taste, smooth but still a little harsh. Flavor is sweet dark fruits, plums and the like. Very good. I’ll crack another 2005 in 2011.
Haslinger (666), Syracuse, New York, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 5, 2008 2006 bottle, Pours a chocolate brown with zero head. The aroma is winey with a bit raisin. The taste is sweet, winey, definitely sweet. Almost overly so. I can imagine this beer would be incredible in 20 years. I can’t wait to find out.
adrian910ss (1436), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 4, 2008 2003 vintage #9324 purchased at Van Loans in Port Ewen, NY in 2004. Pours a dark murky brown orange with no head. Sweet syrupy aroma of caramel, raisins and dates. Taste of sweet syrupy caramel, raisins, dates and figs. Very sweet and a slow sipper for sure.
austone (1039), Turku; Pori, Finland
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 1, 2008 2006 bottle. Murky reddish brown, small soapy head. Smooth raisiny nose, dates, dry fruits, little syrup and ammonium? Still somehow restrained. Very raisiny flavor. dry fruits, pepper, little liquorice and pitch (or wood chips). Warming menthol finish. Almost full bodied, quite strong carbonation for it’s kind. Not very balanced, but I guess age will do the trick.
FishManLA (301), Abita Springs, Louisiana, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 29, 2008 Pours a cloudy dark brown/orange with little floaties in it. No head, no lacing, almost no carbonation. Earthy, strong, pungent nose with obvious alcohol notes. Flavor is very fruity, mostly of raisins with notes of red wine, pear, and apple, and last but certainly not least, ALCOHOL. Not hidden at all. The alcohol shrieks out, but in a good way, like it does in good sipping whiskey. Finish of fruity sweetness and alcohol.
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