Rock Art Vermonster

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

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.

22 oz. bottle - thanks riversideak for another 10%+ tick; pours a glowing orange with thin white head; soft, warm texture with medium body; hop spiciness, toffee, sugar; decent overall

In short: A fucked-up extreme brew of some kind. Aggressive, dirty, resinous, unrefined
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed 8 months after purchase
The look: Almost clear dark-red body topped by a large off-white head
In long: An interesting nose of resin and a mix bag of red fruits. Taste is not so interesting. Feels like some kind of yeast problems here. Dusty and dirty the wrong way, forest floor, beach wood, hops resin, more hops resin, watery toffee. Tastes like an resinous piece of wood you picked on the forest floor with mosses all over it. The body feels relatively light, the avalanche of aggressive flavours are obviously not malt-related. The alcohol is not too apparent and in this beer it is not hiding in a big malted body, it is actually hiding behind a wall of resinous hops. Enormous amount of hops resin, I had to drink a gueuze afterwards to wash the taste off. I was kind of entertained by the “out-there” nature of the beer but really this is amateurish brewing. Rock Art Vermonstrosity.

Clear dark orange color, thin soapy white head. Sweetish malts with earthy hop background. Caramel malt sweetness with a moderate hop spiciness and some heat on the back end.

Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Tan head recedes to hug rim leaving spots. Sweet resinous caramel aromas. Full with sweet fruity butterscotch upfront turning to dark caramel and citrus lasting finish.

22 oz bottle, cellared at least a year. Murky brown with bubbly edges and a haze. Nose is dusty caramel, grass and spiced apple. Medium body with soft carb; very smooth. Taste is toffee, citrus and light butterscotch with green cantaloupe. Hints of cardboard and soap in the finish detract a bit from a nice brew.

pours a dark caramel colour .. dark hops and summer fruit aromas .. . some light refined sugar and maple .. . a beautiful beer with lots of mellow syrup sweetness and a high drinkability!!!

Bottle. Aroma of sweet malt, earthy hops, toffee. Flavor again primarily sweet with a dry toffee character. Not too complex, but an interesting interplay in a barley wine between the sweet, earthy, and bitter.