 Louipa (121), USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 18, 2008 I tried this recently. I aged a bottle for a year or so. Yellow wax. Good stuff, kinda sweet. But very satisfying in the end. Very hoppy. Nice.
robinvboyer (1444), Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
| 4.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Jul 15, 2008 yellow wax. dark mahoghany pour with a fluffy beige head, with thick sticky lacing on my glass. Aroma has some nice citricy hops, but it goes very well with the thick bready caramel malts. Wow i could smell this all day. Some alcohol comes throgh with some nice earthy notes. Flavour is front loaded with caramel malts, with a nice hop bite in the finish that brings a nice bitterness, and goes well with the alcohol bite. Wow, outstanding american style barleywine. Just amazing.
blutt59 (2186), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 14, 2008 purple wax, cognac colored with a slight wispy head, great pine, grapefruit, malty flavors with a very subtle sweet caramel hop finish, excellent beer
chicagobears (336), Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 11, 2008 Yellow wax. Pours a foggystrawberry amber. The hops are still quite lively. A ton of fruit in the nose. The flavors are complex. Raisins, pine, citrus, strawberry and caramel. Slightly hot. This is 2 years old and has not mellowed out. I think the shelf life could be at least 20 years. Quite intense.
sneagrams3 (1762), St. Louis, Missouri, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 Tasted 6/24/08. Yellow wax 22oz bomber. Hazy and sedimented with a brown amber hue. Spiraling off-white head. Big candy nose. Woody port and cinnamon. Fudge and grassy. Full bodied and sweet with big malts and hops. Big alcohol presence. Raisins and spicy cinnamon. Cookie malts. Nice sugary/bitter hop duality. Oaky earthy vanilla note,. Estery and syrupy. Solid on both the malt and hop characteristics. Lacing head. Figgy with a touch of burnt sugar. Toffee and graham crackers. Fantastic!
fidelis83 (729), Clinton, Iowa, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 Updated: Feb 3, 2009Yellow wax. Pours milky terra cotta with a thin, but dense eggshell head. Aroma is citrus, but imediately masked by fruitcake dark fruit. Flavor starts off mildly fruity with dried cherries and oak. Finishes all alcohol and mostly pine but a little citrusy hops. Sweet, but not offensively so. The second pleasantly drinkable barleywine I have had tonight. Hides its alcohol very well, yet still has a nice warmth..
Goodgrief (1161), Middletown, Delaware, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 2, 2008 Beer pours ruby brown color with a lot of head and lacing for the abv. The flavor was a ton of citrus sweetness with a load of pine hop. The mouthfeel was a bit flat and sticky and the beer in general was difficult to drink, even for a barleywine. An okay attempt, but not going to make me shell out $20 any time soon...not even close!
hotstuff (3183), Indiana, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 1, 2008 Purple waxed bottle. Small vanilla head that was mostly lasting, fair amount of lacing, transparent, fizzy carbonation, and a copper hue with some orange, reddish and golden tint. The aroma was malty, caramel, citrus hops, alcohol, grapefruit, and light pine. Ditto for the flavor along with being mildly spicy, some pine, and lightly bitter. Sticky, dry mouthfeel and medium bodied. Quaffable for the style, very hoppy, worthy of a try although this isn’t a beer that I will have again because it was too hoppy tasting since I am not a true hophead.
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