Redhook Treblehook

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Woodinville, Washington USA

Amber pour with weak odd chemical nose. The flavor was pretty tame...some sweetness with some pine like hop flavor. No off flavors and nothing to complain about. Just some mild caramel malt flavor with the aforementioned citrus/pine hop presence (not overly strong). If you like barleywines, go and pick one up. It’s easy drinking and unoffensive. It was a good time, even if it didn’t wow me terribly.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a red-orange color with a large orange-white head. The aroma was light sweet candied fruits, fruity hops and a touch of caramel and nut. The flavor was sour and nutty with a fairly strong piney hop presence and a vague fruity hop undertone and hints of ginger, caramel and nut. Medium length bitter fruity finish. Moderately thick. Interesting but lacking oomph.

Light brown pour with orange tints, average off-white head. Aroma certainly lends itself to an American barleywine; orange, grapefruit, floral hops, some spice, and a bit of gready yeast. Some caramel malt and a bit of cashew is present as well. Flavor is quite intriguing; caramel, dark floral notes like pollen, and some definite booze presence. Sweetness comes in the form of candied sugars, along with the caramel. Palate has bitterness, along with sticky sweetness. Decent barleywine overall.

Orange-brown pour with a half finger white head that fades rather quickly. Aroma is hop oriented for the style- lots of spicy hops, orange, flowers, and a mild resin quality certainly guard a more subtle bready caramel, nuttiness, and a nasal warming alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet- some warming toffee, caramel, nut, aged oxidized vegetables, and further hop manifestations. Palate is medium to full bodied, though a little light for the style, with mild effervescence and a warming alcohol character in the finish.

22 oz bottle, 2009 edition. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off white cap. Aroma is dark fruit and floral hops. Moderate in body with low carbonation. No alcohol burn despite the 10% abv. Flavor is dark fruit, brown sugar, caramel with a floral hop background. Typical barleywine flavors, just a little lighter than some.

22 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a clear deep copper color with a one finger thick light tan head. Nice lacing. Aroma is esters, floral hops, and light toffee. Flavor is sweet malt, esters, and hops. Medium to full body. A nice beer.

Bottle at chris_o’s "smash Kook’s granny tasting". Alround rating: Caramel and light toffee malt sweetness, bit of citrusy fruity character, fairly clean as its not overly bottle conditioned. Nice barley wine.

Not sure why I had some high hopes with this one. Maybe it was the first different barleywine of the cold season and this is a "limited release". But in the end, like most Redhook beers...it’s pretty tame.

The barleywine pours out a solid amber color, crystal clear with a 1/4" off-white creamy head. There was some clinging foam stuck to the sides of the glass, but nothing I would call lacing. More like...clumping. Aroma was mostly cardboard, toasted/bready malts, and old orange juice. Flavor had some suprising high levels of residual sweetness left for a barleywine without much hop character to keep it even. I mean, I love sweet barleywines, but this just was kind of a blah sweetness. Piney hops seemed buried under the malts, and the onslaught of over-oxidized fruits just made this too hard to enjoy.