Third Coast Old Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours hazy amber to brown with a diminished light tan head. Smooth roasted caramel malty aroma with a light hoppy note. Dry and wooden flavoured with a dry caramel and breadish malty base. Ends roasted malty and chocolate smooth.

bottle thanks to gregis. poured brown with a tan head and a set of legs that would turn any head. aroma of malt and dark fruit. flavor is sweet with dark fruits, alcohol, and a little bitter. the alcohol is hidden very well with this. what a way to start out the evening.

Pours dark amber/brown, very little head. Dark, sweet fruit in the nose. Malty sweet, dark fruit across the palate, a little bit of hops at the end, perfect balance. Pretty awesome beer.

Bottle thanks to ericandersnavy. Pours a dark brown, ruby hues, tan head. Aroma of dark fruit. Flavor is rich, dark fruit, licorice, sweet. Has a heavy body with med. carbonation. Very good barley wine!

Dark amber pour, some dark creamish head. Quite a bit of malt, barrel like tones and booze in the nose. Malty but not too sweet, some brown sugar, peat, raisin. Nice and sticky, just a hint of some red fruit, very nice hop character toward the finish. Rather clean finish considering the stickiness. This was nice to me with respect to other barley wines in that it was not overpowering with the fruit flavors. No sourness. Definetely closer to an old ale, which it was an excellent one and believe it will be even more excellent with some aging.

Some barleywines are like licorice, some slam you with odd twists of hard-edged flavor, but this one is gentle, woodsy, creamy, amber/rust beautiful in the glass and - - something rare - - mild and complex for a barleywine - - like autumn leaves and walking down creaky deck upon subdeck of three-masted frigates from the 1800’s.

Vintage #8269. Pours a dark, mahogany brown with tannish head. The bitter hop profile is mostly back-of the tongue bitterness, with a small grassy element remaining from the florals of this one. The malts are smoky and peat-like. Finishes on a smoky note. Vintage #8211. Same as above, but this one has some smoky leathery malty notes that just make this an incredibly delicious beer.

has a wonderful hop/alcohol aroma.very warming the more you drink.perfect for winter nights next to a woodstove. hands down one of the finest barley wines made.