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Pike Old Bawdy Barley Wine

Pike Old Bawdy Barley Wine - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
93
overall
Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: Barley Wine

Seattle, Washington USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1533.66/5.03.63/5.0Winter9.8%67.1Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Named to commemorate the La Salle Hotel, once a Seattle bawdy house and the original home of the Pike Brewing Company. Old Bawdy is a vintage-dated, high-gravity beer brewed with peated Scotch malt. It has a deep golden bronze color, a fruity rich taste, and an aggressive and dominating hop character with smoky undertones that are reminiscent of Scotch whiskey.
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 Barrios (852), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 14, 2009  
Pours a beige head with legs and a copper-amber color body. Smells of mellow citrus and spice hops, rich caramelized malt. Flavor is the same but with some peat. Finish is brown sugar and a little bitter.


 thornecb (1735), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 7, 2009  
2007 bottle. Pours a chill-hazed mahogany into a snifter. Mocha head with excellent retention leaves spider lacing as it slowly recedes. Dark smoked caramel aromas. Thick and creamy with upfront dark caramel and toffee. Lasting burnt resin finish.


 kiefdog (1567), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 7, 2009  
2007 bottle courtesy of ericandersnavy. Pours a hazy dark amber color with thin white head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, brown sugar, bready yeast, floral hops, honey, grass. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, wood, floral hops, butterscotch, honey, spice. Generally medium body with a pleasing malty floral hop finish.


 darn1207 (528), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 27, 2009  
from old notes: 12oz bottle I got to go from pike bar by the fish market in seattle. yeast, honey, floral and alcohol aroma. good balanced barley wine. tough comparison right now - just been drinking doggie claws at hair of the dog brewery - think this was pretty good though.


 tiggmtl (4307), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/516/20
Jun 23, 2009  
Round malt sweetness suggesting marzipan and pastry dough supports strong pine-earthy-spicy hop character in the nose. Clear burnished copper coloured body is topped by a fine bubbled tan head that recedes to a lasting cover and coats the sides of the glass. Resinous hop flavours with aggressive bitterness over lingering malt sweetness. Medium-full body is quite dry with very strong, lightly prickly effervescence. Bottle sampled at the Fuller’s vertical tasting with uhlan.


 SudsMcDuff (1691), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/51/20
Jun 22, 2009  
2007 bottle: drank 6/22/09 @ 6:39pm H-Town .. .got for free by saying it was a sample, then i let my stupid asst manager steal a bottle of the blonde, she then fucked some 60 year old dude right there in the deli area, gross.. . Pours a dark tan, with a healthy medium head, lacing is fantastic! .. . sweet molasses, syrup, and aged dark fruit, some oxidation due to the age off the shelf .. . very smooth stuff, no abv detected at all, could get you in trouble .. . old shoe leather, and cellar dust yeast also there, fresh is my wish.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLc 7NKdSU .. . ages well but drink this fresh.. .


 BeerBunker (607), Burbank, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Jun 19, 2009  
22oz bottle from riversideAK. Pours ruby with a creamy tan head. Good head retention for almost the entire beer. Aroma is of bitter hops, alcohol, caramel, malt, and grass. Taste starts off initially with a strong, bitter hop character. The hops become evened out by a caramel malt backbone. The whole beer has a strong earthy character to it. Lingering, gritty chocolate taste. Strong alcohol presence. Very thick mouthfeel. Takes a few sips to warm up to the harsh alcohol, but once you do it’s worth the wait. Finish is all caramel.


 Butters (1622), Virginia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/515/20
Jun 17, 2009  
Bottle shared with the guys courtesy of ScottyP from his trip to Austin. Hazy amber pour with floating particulates and light tan ring of head. Roasty, peaty, earthy, smokey. A little warming booziness. Resiny pine and grassy hop finish. Great Barleywine



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