Shoreline Discombobulation Celebration Ale

Murky brown pour and floating a tan thin head. Nose is big alcohol fumes and dark fruits. Flavors of dark cherry, caramel and toasted toffee, chocolate, and herbal hop bite. Nicely balanced and complex.

On tap at Shoreline Brewery and served in a snifter. This barley wine poured a dark, muddy brown with a thin, lasting beige head. Some nice lacing was left behind. The aroma of the beer was made up of caramel, dark fruits, and a touch of alcohol. The flavor consisted of burnt caramel, ripe dark fruits, a hint of chocolate, and a mild alcohol note. The mouthfeel was full-bodied with light carbonation. The palate feels a bit thin, but this was still a nicely done barley wine.

Tasted 4/27/08. Pt 7 of the sampler. Filtered with a ruby hue. White ring of head. Aromas of dark fruit and a touch wheaty. Big alcohol note. Full bodied with a tart honey flavor. Crisp oaky vanilla note. Huge palate! Solid!

This is a style i do not really prefer but had to try on tap,it was malty and had a hop kick to it with a alcohol presence to it and a sweet finish.CHEERS!

Nice pour, a clear chestnut body with golden highlighting and an appropriate, creamy eggshell head. The aroma was sweet without being cloying, dusty caramel with appless, a hint of sweet cherries, and an earthy hop bitterness. All blended nicely into the flavor, the alcohol making itself known midway through. The finish is a blending of the bitter and the sweet, accompanied by a low alcohol burn. Nice.

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Very nice nose, full of candies, chocolate covered cherries, sweet maraschino cherry hops. Rich, silky, thick. Pungent and sticky cherry tobacco, sticky raisens and cedar wood. Lightly bitter, very lively on the tongue. Color is a dark ruby red.

This draft brew from a festival poured a small sized head of finely sized light brown colored bubbles that were fully diminished and left behind a semi-hazy no visible carbonation dark brown colored body and a poor lacing. The mild aroma was malty and bourbon. The mouth feel was very tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt hops sweet and bourbon. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

draft at Mad Anthony Oktoberfest - Pours dark brown with a thin head. The bourbon barrel aging shines through in the aroma that also features caramel malts and some dark fruit, perhaps plum. It tastes malty with a good hops balance and just the right amount of bourbon flavor to be noticeable without overwhelming the beer. The alcohol is just noticeable, definitely well concealed for being 10%. I agree with Hotstuff that this beer was the star of the show at the MA Oktoberfest. I am wondering if it’s always bourbon barrel aged though or if this was a special batch. They had it labeled "Discombourbonlation".