Stoudts Old Abominable

Formerly brewed at Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle courtesy of Ibrew2or3. Pours adark amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, honey, vanilla, wood, ripe dark fruit. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of vanilla, wood, caramel, honey, brown sugar, molasses. Generally medium to full body with a pleasing malt finish.

Bottle shared at tasting. Pours dark amber with a light beige head. Smell is malty but not overly sweet. Taste is malty and hoppy and balanced. Medium body and nothing too abnormal or outstanding for the style, I thought. Decent enough.

Pours clear copper with microscopic tan head. The aroma is malty to caramel sweet to go along with some raisins, prunes and a mild level of pine hops. The taste is neutral to start and then moves into sweetness with sweet sugary malts, prunes, raisins and figs. It seems to thin out a bit by midway with more dark fruitiness and brown sugar. Tasty stuff.

Brown amber, thin off white head. Aroma is caramel, light cherry, dried fruit, alcohol. Taste is light hops, alcohol, candy, fruit.

Thanks IBrew2or3 for the share. Pours an amber with a tan head. Nose is caramel, whiskey, maple, vanilla, and some hops. Flavor is malt, whiskey, caramel, vanilla, and some hops. Finish is malt and vanilla. Medium-full bodied with lingering sweetness in finish. Very good.

courtesy of ibrew2or3. Pours copper with white head. Aroma is malty, with a honey like nose, hops overly sweet and light malts. Taste, malty, light touch of brown sugar and caramel, smooth with a fruity after taste and hoppy finish.

Had this in the back of the beer refrig for about a year. Not too familioar with the style. 25oz champagne bottle. Pours a clear dark mahogany ruby color with a thin head that doesn’t last. Big nose of hops. Smooth, silky, sweet malt up front but plenty of hops to balkance with alcohol in back. I enjoyed this bottle with a nice home-grilled London Broil and a spinach salad. Great stuff.

Thanks to leftmindedrighty who traded this one to me a long time ago. I have an oaked age one in my beer que so here goes. I poured my caged and corked 750 into my dogfish head snifter it produced two finger worth of tan head that left a thick coat of lace. The body of the brew was deep amber colored. Aromas of sweet caramel and surprisingly some hops aroma as well. The flavors aren’t as sweet as I am used to on a barleywine either it is very balanced in its flavors. The grainy sweetness and the hops help keep this brew very drinkable. It has a medium feel to the mouth and little carbonation for my tongue A good drinking barleywine I can’t wait to try the oaked age one. Thanks again