Redhook Treblehook

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

Date: November 04, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Hop City, Atlanta
Appearance: hazy amber, fine beige head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet and fruity aroma, light earthyness
Flavor: dry and earthy flavor, plenty of bitterness, touch of fruity caramel sweetness, long bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Pours copper to light amber with off-white head that is significant, but dissipates within minutes to a thin rimjob, though much Belgian lace is left behind as the pint goes empty. Nose is light with some pine and mixed fruit. Palate is far more to the sweet side of things with caramel, honey, and hops come in afterwards in a lame attempt to balance it out (but don’t quite do so much). One of the maltier and less hop focused barleywines I’ve had in awhile..

Pours a clear amber reddish color with a moderate beige head that leaves a nice sticky lacing. Aroma is of distinct citrus notes, with pine, floral, and caramel underlying it. Taste features hop bitterness up front, with a sweet and prominent caramel to follow, and a long boozy roasted malt finish.

22 oz bomber. This is a very light barleywine, especially for the 10 plus percent abv. But then again, it might just be that the flavor is fairly mild for such a strong beer. Definitely nothing bad here, just lacking a bit of character. In the aroma, there’s some nice rich, fruity malt notes, a honey sweetness, and a earthy bark hop in the background. It poured with a minor layer of fluffy white head, a medium body, and red amber in color. The feel of the this one has a unsurprising mild alcoholic bite and rich body. Notes of mixed medium ripe fruits, caramel, sugar, sandwich bread, light citrus, and that same earthy tree note as the aroma. So overall pretty decent and kind of what I expected here.

Poured medium amber, caramel malts, fruit punch, little piney hops, little dark fruits.

650 ml bottle. Pours a clear copper color with a thin, clingy beige head. Taste is of malt, caramel, toffee, hops, pine, resin, fruit and grapefruit. Similar aroma. Slightly bitter. Nice lingering aftertaste. Slightly slick body. Easy to drink, almost too easy. Nice to have on a cold day. Worth picking up again.

Bomber. Pours mostly clear, dark coppery-red in color, with a moderate, foamy head of ivory tinted foam. Tall, cobweb-like ribbons of sticky lacing coat the glass well. The aroma shows darkly toasted toffee, caramel, brown sugar, and bread in the malt base. Sharp grapefruit and resinous pine lend ample hop fragrance, though it never quite catches up to the avalanche of malty sweetness. The flavor is a little more balanced, stikingly hoppy grapefruit rind and evergreen bitterness countering the sugary caramel and buttery, toasty toffee. A big, thick, sticky body sports moderate carbonation, finishing with clinging bitterness that lingers for minutes. It’s a solid, hoppy, American style barleywine reminiscent of Old Guardian.

Bomber from Leukens LIquors (Dunedin, FL). Pours a mahogany red with massive two finger tan, frothy head that settles slowly. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, toffee, floral hops, hints of chocolate, molasses, brown sugar. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of chocolate, brown sugar, molasses, raisins, figs, some hints of floral hops toward finish. Smooth, medium body with a pleasing malt finish.