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Pike Old Bawdy Barley Wine 3.63 158

Pike Old Bawdy Barley Wine

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common

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1583.66/5.03.63/5.0Winter9.8%67.7Snifter
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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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 yespr (12414), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 6, 2008    Updated: Sep 22, 2009
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy and brown with a lacing tan head. Aroma is solid fruity to hoppy. Smooth hoppy and slight woody dry flavour. Mild spiced to solid dry spiced. Dry and slight caramelish finish yet dry and brett. Sweet and fruity caramelish in rerate. No brett.


 emacgee (1892), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Aug 8, 2009  
Via trade. Pours a nice red orange with a one finger yellow head. Very pretty. Nose is sweet, malty, caramel, peachy, fruity, pungent, English feel, nice citrus rind hop feel. Flavor is sweet and malty, mild oxidation, warming, nice citrus rind bitterness, nice flavor. Very mellow barley wine. Easy to drink. Warming palate with a prominent bitterness.


 BuckeyeBoy (1689), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Feb 17, 2007  
12oz Bottle 2006 Pours out a amber topped with a off white head. Aroma is GREAT thanks Jordan


 raphael (420), Portland, Oregon, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Mar 13, 2007  
smokey meat smell in the pub makes aroma difficult-- caramel, hops, peat smoke, lemon. almost sticky on the tongue but good carbonation (on tap at Oaks Bottom). blushing amber body with white head. I taste peches, honey, lemon, buffered bitter. fruity than most batrleywines wihtout the sour esters. alcohol warming. a fine one. (apparently charging a high price at the store for a bottle.)


 JohnnyJ (1352), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 24, 2007    Updated: Jul 25, 2007
2006 vintage. Pours a hazy reddish orange with caramel colored head. Nose is full of strong sweet malts, caramel, toffee, and a hint of citrusy hops. Flavors of caramel, sweet malt, bitter piney hops, grapefruit, and citrus. Nice mouthfeel, thick, but not to heavy. Pretty nice.


 riversideAK (2792), Shoreline, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Mar 3, 2008  
2006 version bottle at the brewery. Pours a nice gold color with a head that disappears. Aroma is sweet and fruity, caramel malts, and brown sugar, with huge floral hops too. Sweet caramel malts and brown sugar up front with big balancing bitterness that is both floral and aspiriny. Lingering bitter hops even for being 2 yrs old. Only a little alcohol. I enjoyed this one alot.


 joebrew (608), Farewell Minny; Hello Puyallup, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 21, 2007  
Bottle courtesy of an awesome trade with larry_pitonka. 2006 vintage Pours a murky muddled orange tinged earthy brown, with no head. Lots of orange like citrus as well as very sweet malt on the nose, accomanied by a hint of heat. Very full creamy mouthfeel with a good amount of citrus. The alcohol is definately there, but the citrus hoppiness smooths it out into a very nice finish. Very nice beer, but I think I should have waited longer for it to mellow a touch more.


 dchmela (1458), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
May 16, 2009  
07 bottle courtesy Blutt59. Reddish brown pour with a thick tan head. Big hop dominant aroma with hints of smoke and caramel. Thick mouth feel with lots of malt, but grapefruit style hops are still very dominant after two years. Bitterness has dyed down a little, seems like the perfect time to drink this.



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