Schlafly Barleywine

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Pours a big reddish brown, thn head. Aroma is extremely sweet, honey, molasses, and some hops sneaking in there. Flavor is huge, very sweet, a strong bready flavor, chocolate, dark fruits, a tart, almost sour sensation, very bitter hop climax, and a long, grassy and dry finish. I’lll be drinking a whole growler tonight, and I just know tommorow’s going to hurt.

Light chestnut color with a small lid of light tan bubbles. Aromas of fruit, with some spices and just a hint of herbal hops. Balanced throughout with mild chocolate, toffee, lightly over-ripe fruit and a mild pale malt flavor that is always welcome in my book. Light alcohol kick near the finish. Very easy to drink and as balanced a barleywine as I have had a any brewpub. Just Nice.

Draft at the Tap Room. Aroma is strong of raisins. Ruby, brown hue with little head. Slight citrus and alcohol nose. Full and sugary. Flavors of port, raisins, oranges, fruit cake, sticky, cane sugar. Little hop note. Slight oak, slight syrup, slight alcohol. Just my style!

tap-hop in the city 05-pours murky amber with no head. again, a flat keg. piney, sweet, fruity aroma with some fig notes as well. full body, but no carbonation again. fairly surupy mouthfeal nonetheless. this beer has a farily hoppy aroma, but the flavors are not so much-more fig, fruty, carmel malt notes predominate. some earthy hop tones come out more in the finish-slightly leafy. not a bad barleywine, wish the carbonation was better.

Deep red-brown with small tan head and nice lace. Sweet malt/biscuit aroma with a hint of alcohol. Flavor of sweet malt, dark fruits. Substantial mouthfeel. Hops to balance the substantaial malt. Nice alcohol warmth. Everything a barleywine should be.

Pours a nice deep red. Aroma is fruity and malty. Flavor is earthy,fruity and quite hoppy. Just as good in the winter as summer. A decent attempt!

A nice, strong aroma of soft fruit, vanilla, caramel, toffee, alcohol and a touch of citric hops. The flavors are strong and warming and there’s a huge, filling mouthfeel. Pleasant as all hell, but it’s no Bell’s Old Ale.

Growler: Dark brown with a purple hue. . .sweet orange, cherry, alcohol aroma. . . Absent of all head. . . Bits of wood, alcohol, some fruit in the distance. . . All around good barley wine, but short of the league of the greats.