Tröegs The Flying Mouflan

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

THOUGHTS: I tried this on tap at the Good Dog Bar during Philly Beer Week and it was great. I could only hope the bottled version was as good. Wow was it ever. It’s like Nugget Nectar and Dead Reckoning Porter had a baby and baby grew up to be more of a success than either of its already successful parents, due to to their love and sacrifice. Now that they’re bottling and naming a former scratch beer, I’m hoping one day I’ll be able to buy a bottle of Naked Elf. This, though, was one wicked barley wine that was surprisingly easy to drink. It didn’t really even seem like a barley wine to me. It seemed almost like a new thing. Like a dark double IPA. It was like eating grapefruit for breakfast and washing it down with a caramel mocha coffee. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brownish red that was mahogany in the light with an average to large, off-white to khaki head that mostly diminished, but kept a nice sheet that blanketed the sides of the glass with excellent lacing. The aroma was moderate molasses, caramel, mild coffee and light roasted malt, moderate to heavy grapefruit and orange (leaning slightly more to the orange) hops, maple syrup, and slight cherry. When it warmed more there was an ever so slight Band-aid smell that may have just been part of the resinous hops that emerged at that point. There was something slightly off, but only ever so slightly. I forgave this and still think overall this beer is a 20, because if it didn’t get as warm as it did, I never would have known about it. The initial flavor was rather sweet, slightly sour, acidic and even more slightly bitter; while the finish was sweet and bitter with an average to long duration. There was grape fruit, orange, chocolate, coffee, caramel malt, brown sugar, maybe some toffee, a little pine and chocolate syrup. Great balance. The full body was creamy with sort of soft carbonation and a light astringent, light alcoholic and ever so slightly chalky finish. It made me want wanna keep sippin’.

Glad to be the first Québécois to rate, maybe even try that one. Outside Pennsylvania, it seems hard to find; the owner got it out of the backstore because my brother was buying 250$ worth of beer to bring to me, The owner asked him not to tell where he got it and not to come again to get some more). 9,99$ for 22 oz. This is Heaven in a bottle. Hop tingling, very light texture, high carbonation, there seems to be something watery but in the best possible way (maybe it was very fresh), notes of fruits like orange and surely others because it is an incredibly complex brew. Notes of sweetness from the malt but the fruity hops come over and over again in the taste and aftertaste. I am totally overwhelmed by that brew. I’d buy cases of that if I could find it. A new Graal!

22oz Bottle. Oozed out of the bottle a beautiful turbid earthy garnet, with amber highlights and a soft creamy tan head that provided remarkable uber lacing. Wonderfully redolent of high alpha hops: pine needles, grapefruit, orange; then caramel-chocolate, raisin, and fig with hints of roast malt. Reminiscent of Nugget Nectar with an intense malting. Tasted spectacular. Fresh pine needles, pink grapefruit, orange - perhaps mandarin - then caramel, cocoa, raisin, fig, slight licorice-toffee spiciness. It’s palate exacerbates the jubilance of the experience. Viscous and soft, full but not heavy, bitter but not cloying, intense but simple, warming but not burning. Amazing. So close to perfection.

This beer pours a dark amber color with a reddish-brownish hue with a huge beige head. The head is soft and creamy and leaves lots of lacing around the glass. The aroma is extremely inviting, with notes of flowery hops, pine, citrus and yeast. The flavors are amazingly and dangerously delicious, with a big hoppy character and a balanced malty profile. This beer is more like an IIPA than a barleywine. It’s extremely hoppy, bitter and dry with a big malty balance. The Flying Mouflan is so well-rounded, with a great bitter hoppiness with grass, grapefruit, orange and grassy flavors along with a rich tone of earth, caramel and toffee. The finish is quite hoppy and dry but with a delicious and complex malty tone. This beer really has it all. It’s delicious, flavorful, rich, complex and completely and outstandingly enjoyable.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark red-brown color with a very large orange-tan head. The aroma was very strong piney and grapefruity hops with a fruit cocktail element throughout. The flavor was wonderfully rich and strong with notes of pine, fruit cocktail, pink grapefruit, sugar, cocoa and lightly roasty malts. The finish was long with resiny hops. The mouthfeel was thick and full. Almost perfect.

Wow. I didn’t realize that this was Scratch 4 until recently. The pour is turbid, muddy deep brownish with 1-finger of khaki head. The aroma is amazingly complex, giving notes of heavy hops, tropical fruit, funky feety Simcoe hops, yeasty hints, caramel malt, figs, and mild cognac. The palate is rich, complex, throwing different things at the palate with every sip. Among the flavors Inoted were caramel malt, huge feety hops, tropical fruit, blackberry, prune, cognac, and figs. The hops don’t overtake the malt, with both components being huge and balancing each other well, and the alcohol is very well hidden. I need more of this.

sweet and hoppy aroma.... great hop and pine flavor with a malt balance... Similar to the Southern Tier Backburner but much more hop power.... great unique barleywine

Pours a muddy ruby brown amber with a medium beige head. Wonderful aroma of simcoe hops, citrus and pine. Taste is very hoppy with hints of simcoe, toffee, caramel, citrus and pine. SUPERB !!!