Southern Tier Back Burner

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Lakewood, New York USA

pours a dark reddish copper with a tan head. aroma is malt-city with notes of caramel, toffee, and alcohol. taste is sweet malt, dark fruit, and a little alcohol. bubbly mouthfeel. nice BW.

(bottle - 22 oz) Dark copper color with a very thin later of tan foam. Aroma is light with a lot of sweet malts, caramel, toffee, and alcohol. Sweet malts in the flavor with a light toffee middle and a sweet malt flavor that changes bitter near the end. Alcohol is well hidden. Pretty average barley wine.

22 oz. bottle my mother-in-law brought back from NY - Pours a slightly hazy brown color with a half finger thick off white head which settles to a fine film. Faint spotty lacing. Aroma is full of sweet fruity esters and doughy malt. The flavor is also full of esters and lightly sweetened malt. The alcohol is noticeable and lingers a tad on the palate. Medium to full body. A nice sippin’ BW.

Smallish yellow-orangeish head, over absolutely stunning burgundy to accajou beer. Cake bottom, apricot & orange marmalade, and fresh hops (C and other); faraway fusels and multitude of esters. Very fruity, and yet bitterish; all kinds of exotic fruit as lytchees, apricots, with hops and maple syrup-covered; in a very, very balanced way. Ends a bit spicy-peppery. This is absolutely great. After some oxydation to the air, it gets an aroma as from horse chestnut husk. A bit burning MF, ending a bit dry, even wry. Quinine in the aftertaste. Impressive beer. Just the lingering hops make it maybe a tad too bitter. Again thanks to puzzl!

Bomber drunk on 10/3/07, 4 or 5 months of age.
Fantastic appearance. Huge amount of dark beige-yellow, frothy head that takes its time receding and leaves plentiful lacing. Fades to cover. Deep auburn-amber colored body is clear and full of carbonation, with no sediment on the bottom.
Appearances aside, this just about epitomizes what I don’t like about beer. First whiff garners some enjoyable and interesting fruity hop notes, but they quickly burn off and are not found again. In their place comes a more harsh, piney-citric hoppiness, tons of scratchy, dry caramel malts and oxidized, overly bready caramel malts. Very strong esters of strawberry and raspberry emerge on the end, but seem out of place. The alcohol is noticeable, burning through the finish. Syrupy residual sugars are found on the end, caramel-like and with little/no depth.
Flavor is a blast of palate-numbing pine-citric bitterness, with low amounts of actual hop flavor. Malts are crusty, scratchy and bare up front, gaining some help from the creamy-like consistency provided by the carbonation and ending on a syrupy-sweet, cloying caramel flavor. With breathing, I either get oxidation or a popcorn-like scratchy dryness (or both). Not my cup of tea, to say the very least. Went down the drain very quickly.

Ruby brown, thin off white head. Aroma is very malty, dried fruit, alcohol, and berries. Taste is lightly hoppy, somewhat soapy, dried fruit, alcohol.

22 oz bottle; Nose of dark fruit, caramel, wheaties cereal, alcohol, and hops; dark rusty brown with a small beige head; flavor of dark fruit, bourbon, and light hop bitterness.

(thanks to irishboy for sharing.)reddish/brown with not much head.aroma of citurs hops,cherries,and caramel malts.flavor is much of the same.