Pacific Coast Code Blue Barley Wine

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty fruity dark fruit aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweetish malty fruity dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish warming malty finish.

On tap at brewery 12/22/07. Copper; big amber head. Very rich...some sweetness, giant finish of oily bitter resiny hop notes and sweet malts.

Draft. Rich ruby-brown beer with a nice cocoa colored head.Toffee malt aroma. Raisiny, malty falvor with some cocoa and backing sweetness. Fuller bodied. Lingering dusty malt.

Bottle 2004 vintage poured a hazy garnetwith a large lasting amber head. Aromas of apple, carmel, brown sugar, dates and slightly sour. Palate was medium bodied and dry. Flavors of antiseptic, carmel,and earthiness with a dry lingering bitter finish.

Hazy reddish broan ale with no head. Sweet raisin malt with nice hop notes, and alcohol vapours. Good sweet malt with a big dose of c-hops, good oily mouthfeel, viscous, and nice alcohol warmth. Some licorice notes developping. Rich and smooth. On tap, August 2005.

Hazy brown-red body with off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, raisin, some alcohol, ligh grapefruit. Taste is sweet, caramel, grapefruit, raisin. Alcohol is well-balanced, hardly noticeable tastewise. Medium-full body, sticky, low carbonation.

This dark brown ale poured with a nice off-white head, eliciting a caramel-like aroma. The flavor is rich and somewhat fruity (raisins?), with a dry finish. This is a nice brew.

02.20.05 Tap at Toronado BWF Big bubbles over and throughout a dark brown beer. Smells buttery, maybe a bit oxidized. Vanilla and oakey. Light biscuit. Sweet. Little heat or hops. Raisin and fig. So-so but quite drinkable.