Rock Art Vermonster

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

22oz bottle. 2007 vintage (at least that’s the year I bought it!). Poured a deep orangish/amberish color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, nuttiness, raisins, and a little earthiness. Tastes of caramel, citrus, nutty, toffee, and some dark fruits. Overall alcohol content well hidden.

22oz bottle. Cloudy dark red-brown body with small off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, grapefruit, caramel, some pine, light raisin. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit/pine, alcohol, light orange, cherry, caramel. Medium-full body, fairly resinous, some stickiness.

Bottle. Pours a dark brune body with a tan head. Fruity hop character with a grassy spicy resinous character, dirty with wet wood and earthy dirt like tones. Warm with some fruit and toffee. I didnt care much for this.

From the Bottle at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 11/10/2008 Very fruity aroma. Bronze coloured hazy in appearance very fruity hoppy and sweet with a bitter lasting finish.

Bomber, a couple years old. Poured clear medium brown with a nice cap of deep beige head. The aroma was just delightful.. ripe redder fruits, English toffee, and brown sugar give a sweet, decadent impression.. mild citrusy hops accented. The flavor is unfortunately where the age really shows and the wheels start to fall off.. the dark fruit is still in there, but is supplanted at many points by cardboard and the remnants of what used to be large hop bitterness.. dry, spicy, and earthy on the edges.. sweet on the finish, with an extra hit of sherried warmth coming through right after the swallow.. still some tasty components, but I’m sure it was better fresh. Heavier-bodied on the palate with active carbonation.. good feel, but stale character really took over on the latter half of the drink. I’ll be glad to try this fresh sometime.

Swetet carmelized nose, looks dark tan to brown and hazy, sweet on palate, not overly so like the DF head 120 minute, 100 IBUs pleasant rantehr than distracting, nice amount of sugar/malts cover/balance the hops, sweet and dry asrtingent finish, SOLID beer

Late June/Early July 2008: Rock Art Vermonster is brown-colored with a beige head. It has citrus and pine hops in the aroma and flavor that is lightly malty with LOADS of citrusy hops. It has an average body. Due to the high amount of citrus and hops in this beer, it is quite clear that this in an American-style Barleywine. I would prefer more maltiness and sweetness though.

Bottle (Alc. 10% by Vol / 100 IBU) shared by alexsdad06. Thanks Brad! Rating #106 for this beer.

dark chocolate brown with lots of sediment and thick creamy head with nice lacing. Aroma of rum, raisin, candy sweetness. Hot alcohol early on tongue, sweet malt and dark roast with some carbon. Woodsy grassy, somewaht herbal hop bite at the end along with roast/carbon bitterness. woodiness and carbon last on the tongue.