Rock Art Ridge Runner Ale

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Clear, dark amber with a small, off- white head. The aroma is light with some caramel. The flavor is thin, watery, dry with some caramel and a touch of floral hops. Light body.

Amber-copper body with a loose, cottony beige head. Aroma of sweet maple, cherry skins, and burnt wood. Tea-like, grainy malts come through in the flavor which is somewhat astringent and medium sweet. Lacks depth relative to most barley wines.

Bottle, from Julio’s bottled So so nose, Malty sweet. Kind of musty cardboardy, some fruit, little grassy. Tinny. Clean orangy dark brown color, nice solid fluffy head that sayed most of the way, good lacing. Bitter flavor.Kind of sour grassy, sour, little ashy, Soapy. Lite body, for a BW, watery mouthfeel, bitter finish. I didn’t enjoy this one much. Blind I wouldn’t of guess a barleywine. I can only hope tis is not a good batch.

Light carmelly malt aroma,some hint of maple, dark amber color, malty taste with hints of milk chocolate,mixed with some sweet carmel,no real friut esters, maybe a touch of alcohol,body seems thin, and it seems overcarbonated for a barleywine. Should be classifed something different

Rock Art perfected the Barley Wine. Wonderful flavor, great appearance. Smooth, slightly sweet, with a lingering appealing aftertaste. One of my favorites

Caramelized sugar aroma. Clear, medium-dark brown. Medium to medium-light body, fizzy. Bitter and cereal. Mediuim finish, full of dark malt. A session barleywine? A strong mild? Underwhelming. Medium astringency, bitter overall. Dry with very light caramel. On tap, Ginger Man NYC.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a nice thick off white diminishing head. Faint dark roasted malt and nutty aroma. Flavor is like a thin watery nutty porter. Then comes the rather weak finish, which is watery, dry, slightly roasty, and full of hairspray flavor. This lacks sweetness, hops, malt backbone, and so on. Not my idea of a Barleywine, especially at 7.5%

Julios Spring Beer Festival. Pour of clear brown, fringed with tan. A distant sweet nutty aroma. Vacant flavor of distant rum and touch of tannins. Light nuttiness and a hint of sugars. This is weak. Palate is biting and bitterly dry. Hops? Overly thin bodied, not enough alcohol to carry flavor and the flavors that are present are mildly offensive.