Southern Tier Back Burner

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

Bottle at Oliver Twist. Deep reddish - offwhite head. High raisins+plums. High dried dark fruits, barley, light alcho-burn. Medium hoppy, pine grass, light honey, nice sweetness. This is good !!.... Again: #28 - Amerikaner Blind-Smagning 01-Maj-2009 hos Papsoe. Bottle. (8/4/8/4/16)

Vintage 2007. 22oz bottle. sweet malt aroma. Cherries, caramel. rich malt flavors. very bitter finish.

Nice barley wine. Not too hoppy with this one, as is the case with some. Very well balanced. The pour is a deep dark ruby with a light head. Aroma of fruit, sweet toffee, and some hop biterness. Taste is very balanced. Not as much burn as I expected. Alcohol is barely present. Very nice.

2007 Vintage

1/22/2008: Southern Tier Back Burner Imperial Barley WIne Style Ale smells sweet. It is loaded with sweet citrus orange and caramel maltiness. It has a nice, golden copper-orange color with a thin, lightly frothy ivory head. The carbonation is fine and quite smooth. The flavor begins sweet and has lots of fruity caramel malt. There is some nice roasty caramelized notes in the middle along with some nice sweet citrus orange/tangerine/grapefruit flavor and mild bitterness in the finish. There is some dried fruit (apricot), toffee, and even traces of cigar (or tobacco) flavors as well. No alcohol in the flavor at all. This beer has a very smooth and easy to drink medium body. It is a bit sticky on the lips. Overall it is a fairly well-balanced American-style Barleywine that will probably be even better in another year.

650 ml. bottle / Alc. 10.0% by Vol. / 23° Plato / 85 ibu’s / 15° L / 2-row pale malt, light & dark caramel malt / kettle hops: chinook / aroma hops: willamette / dry hops: amarillo, centennial. Rating #146 for this beer...

22oz bomber via trade with someone that is escaping my mind, and hmm. Honestly I’ve lost my mind because I should know. If you see my rating alert my drunken brain. I was just about to drink a porter and I realized I want a BW. Pours dark dark amber almost no light in but a bit through the head. The head is thing third finger with a tan color. The nose is complex but subtle, with fruit, maltiness, a touch of hops and a bit of candy sugar. The taste is remarkably smooth, sweet and yummy. Wow that is a very very smooth Barley Wine, that I doubt has much age on it. This is a somewhat hopy BW not bad after a DIPA, this is damn nice. Another great one from Southern Tier.

[726-20071001] 650mL (w/ jerc, Radek Kliber). Malty dough and Belgian yeast aroma. Clear, dark dark red body with a medium foamy off-white head. Dark roasted malt is not too heavy. Medium-full body is a little astringent. Nice and drinkable, therefore a "dangerous beer."
Overheard: "It’s not often you get a 10% beer that is that drinkable."

#28 Bottle. [Papsoe grand American tasting] Small light bubbly beige head. Spare display of lacework. Light cloudy amber color. Aroma of rye bread, fruit, toasted malt, caramel, light vinous, raisins, mild wood. Feels like a Barley Wine. (This is a blind tasting). Full bodied, soft carbonation. Heavy sweet flavor with mild counter bitterness. Lingering toasted malty and light nutty finish. 8 / 3 / 8 / 4 / 16 = 3.9

Bottle- pours a mohagany brownish red, with a small fizzy head. smells citrus hops cherry, molasses, and some whiskey. tastesberries,cherries to be exact, with a strong piney citrusy hoppy finish that is well balanced by the malty fruity sweetness. lingering brown sugar taste with some pepper/ mouthfeel is syrupy. I can see this one aging really well.