Port Townsend Barley Wine

Brewed by Port Townsend Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Port Townsend, Washington USA

2005 Vintage - Pours a hazy brown color, with a small but ample off white head. Aroma is full on brown and candi sugars, very sweet and full of even sweeter fruitiness. Flavor is rich and malty, sweet breads, fruit cake, and the addition of some bitter hoppiness shines through as well. Great dark fruitiness, dates and raisins invade your tastebuds. Quite yummy, if you are looking for a richer in character barleywine, a definite after dinner sipper.

Red brown ale with no head. Lightly smoked raisiny malt aroma. Sweet candi sugar taste with smoked malts and warm alcohol. May 2005, Capflu’s BW tasting.

22 oz bottle. Dark brown, crystal clear beer with a thick tan head. Sweet clear malty aroma, big fruity aroma, some spicy and citrus hops, a bit of bready and toasty finish. Flavour is very sweet and fruity as well. Nice interesting yeast, blackberry/cherry, sweet plummy malts, brown sugar, bready, with a light citrus hop flavour, peppery, slightly alcoholic finish. Much better than I expected.

Cloudy brown w/ a slight mahogany hue & frothy, light brown foam. Roasty/burnt aroma of chocolate, caramel, & nuts. Mild phenols evident. Syrupy feel. Flavour is sweet & malty w/ somewhat unpleasant notes of pepper, ash, & stale nuts.

Almost absent head covers the dark mahogany hue. The nose announces a serious beginning of oxidation right off through its madeira flavors. Straightforward burnt toast, chocolate and caramel offerings feels a bit like déjà vu. All about the malt. The close to roasty, calcinated crust flavours continue on the tongue for a long time, in the end dominating the sweet aspects. Coppery, slightly astringent finish is very dry, but not quite bitter, definitely not from the hops anyway.

Aroma:chocolate aroma,light burn aroma... Appearance:Dark brown,light head... Flavor:Chocolat,and burnt toast.......

Round maltiness, chocolate, raisins and floral hops in the ashy, smokey, burnt, roasty aroma. Opaque mahogany brown body with ruby tones is topped by a thin ring of fine-bubbled head. Very sweet in the mouth with an ashy character and floral, orange hop notes leading to a bitter, roasty finish. Smokiness and roasted bitterness linger on the tongue. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Bottle sampled with CapFlu, Goldorak, Joey_Capps, Olivier_MTL, Lubiere and MartinT.

(22oz bottle) Purchased at Bottlewerkz, Seattle. I seemingly didn’t mind this beer as much as everyone else? It was very velvety in texture and had a nice brown sugar and spice flavour. Good.