Pennichuck Pompier 3.33 73

Pennichuck Pompier

	Percentile
	78
	overall

Brewed by Pennichuck Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Milford, New Hampshire USA

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Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
73	3.38/5.0	3.33/5.0	Special	12.1%	28	Snifter

Commercial Description:
Our fourth in the Firehouse Ales Series, Pompier means "fireman" in French and represents our continued commitment to celebrate and honor the men and women who respond to the call day after day. Pompier is rich and smooth with complexities that come from a huge grain bill comprised of premium imported specialty malts, French Strissel Spalt aroma hops and a 3 month aging process in oak hogsheads where it is combined with toasted French oak wood chips and champagne yeast. Pompier is intended to be a vintage quality English-Style Barleywine with a French twist. Appreciate its fine character and 12.1%ABV when we release this single 10 barrel batch sometime in December or you may choose to cellar it for many years to come.

You will find Pompier on retail shelves packaged in the same 1 Liter Swing-Top bottle that has become a signature for our specialty beers.

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illinismitty (1801), Nashville, Tennessee, USA

3.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.2	6/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	12/20

Sep 20, 2008 Updated: Sep 21, 2008

Bottle from Decaturstevo. Pours a dark copper amber with a white head. Aroma is really odd, like old sweaty gym socks. Medium bodied with a slight syrupy texture. Flavor of caramel, smoke, and some weird off flavor, which is dusty, sour, and musty. On a positive note, alcohol well hidden.

Butters (1653), Virginia, USA

2.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.2	4/10	4/5	4/10	3/5	7/20

Sep 20, 2008

Oxidationfest Tasting at illinsmittys. Rusty brown pour with ruby highlights and wispy off-white head. Aroma of cherries, yeast, vanilla, wood. Sweaty socks according to smitty. I kinda see that. Flavor is sweet, raisin, and sour funk that I can’t place. Alcohol seems pretty well masked until the finish. Semi-metallic, tart finish. I’m wondering if we didn’t have a bad bottle?

zathrus13 (1316), Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA

4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Sep 19, 2008

Pours cloudy brown/copper. Aroma is caramel, fruit, malt, oak, and wine. Flavor is fruit, wine, oak, hops, and caramel. ends a bit bitter/dry. Very nice.

pepsican (885), The Student Ghetto, Iowa, USA

4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Sep 14, 2008

Brown pour with a small off white head. Aroma was heavy malt, caramel, and vanilla. Flavor has caramel, tobacco, cherry, oak. vanilla. Moderaltely bitter finish, nice carbonation and hides the alcohol well.

DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	8/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	15/20

Sep 12, 2008

Pours turbid brownish ruby with initial 2-finger off-tan head that dissipates and doesn;t come back with repours. Nose is complex, a medly of oaky malt, figgy fruit, cherry, merlot, caramel. Tastes fruity. caramel malty, with earthy spicy notes, plus some cherry and merloty notes. Medium palate heft with decently hidden alcohol, and some ending rauchiness. Very good.

Cletus (5059), Connecticut, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	8/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	16/20

Sep 4, 2008

Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells of sweet hops, some boozy hints, oak, hints of molasses. Tastes of sweet malt, some boozy hints, oaky, spicy, some warming alcohol on the finish.

beerbuzzmontreal (2931), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	7/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	13/20

Jul 30, 2008

Pours a cloudy brown color with a thin light brown head. Aroma of caramel, hops and wood. Flavor of caramel, hops and wood. The body is light to medium with a liquorous texture and gentle carbonation. It feels a bit bland for such a high ABV barley wine.

WeeHeavySD (3041), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	5/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	15/20

Jul 5, 2008

1 Liter Bottle Purchased overpriced at Spiritus Fermenti in Providence RI. Pours a dark amberish red with a 2 finger tan head. Nose was sweet and slightly oaky. Taste was sweet one dimensional and front ended.

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