Terrapin Side Project Gamma Ray

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Barley Wine
Athens, Georgia USA

Now in 12 oz. bottles, 4 pack. Cloudy, orange yellow with creamy head. Very heavy, spicey, with a bitter finish.

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks to CaptainCougar. Cloudy golden - white head. High sweetness, yeasty, fruity, candy, bubblegum, banana, light flowery, light hoppy, grass, straw, roasted, toasted. OK.

22 fl oz bottle, courtesy of CaptainCougar. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild caramelish and phenolic fruity with a hint of oranges. Caramelish and slight sticky mouthfeel. Light bitterness and light roasted light breadish note. Lingering and malty flavoured finish.

Cloudy golden with a tiny white head. Sweet flavour with banana, wheat and yeasty notes. Sweet flavour with malt, caramel, wheat, ripe fruits, banana and yeasty notes. Finished sweet with warming alcohol notes.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of CaptainCougar. Hazy golden with a small, off-white head. Aroma of banana and yeast. Medium body, banana fruity, strange yeastiness and a solid alcohol burn. Underlying tartness. Not much bitterness. A very different Barley Wine. 300809

Cloudy orange pour with a thin white head. Aroma is of honey with some sweet maltiness in the background. Flavor is like a weizenbock, lots of bubblegum and wheat up front. Some honey creeps into the middle. Finish is a bit sweet with lingering honey and massive alcohol heat. They managed to keep some of the honey flavor in a very extreme brew, which is good. Terrapin ought to make a real mead, that would be a side project with an exclamation point!!! Terrapin, are you listening?? This could have been soooo much better! Honey "wines" are so hard to pull off when a mead is right there staring you in the face!!

Bottle… Pours clear and light amber with little to no head. The aroma is of Brazilian pepper honey, vanilla, an unidentified spice and just a whisper of acidity. Medium to full-bodied with a slick mouthfeel and tickling carbonation. Well-balanced with moderate unpleasant tartness and very mild honey sweetness. Bone-dry finish. Bottle provided by craftbeerdesign!

Pours a medium copper with little, rapidly disappearing head. Aroma is a bit mead like, notes of unripe pear. Flavor is very lightly tart and lightly sweet with a very well integrated high abv. The thick mouthfeel is the only hint that this is over 10%.