Tyranena Spank Me Baby! Barley Wine

Formerly brewed at Tyranena Brewing
Style: Barley Wine
Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA

this is more of a scotish ale than a barley wine.the heavy use of peated malt makes this limited ale one of my favorites. if you like single malt scotch and flavorful beer ..you’ll love this one.

12oz bottle, courtesy of Monger. Thanks, James! Pours a hazy, rust-brown color; light tan head with patchy lacing. Not a whole lot coming from the aroma: some roasted and burnt malts, some dried fruits. The taste shows more complexity: burnt malts, licorice, dark dried fruits and bready character; well-hopped as well, showing some nice balancing bitterness. Medium, roasted malt and brown sugar finish.

Bottle thanks to buckybeer. Clear but cloudy like brown body and thin head. Smell is strong and a little funky, malt. Flavor is the same. A little too potent at first. Sweet. Not bad but needs more age on it.

Bottle. Pours an amber-brown with a minimal head. Prominent nutty/woody nose. Bitter up front and throughout. Chinook? Lingers a bit with cardboard and beechwood. Not bad, but not great.

Nice nose like an alsacian riesling, but the flavor dissapoints a little. It has a decent malt balance to the astringent hoppiness. The flavor is a little off, but the nose and finish are great.

12oz bottle via trade with Monger, many thanks. Pours cloudy dark brownish amber with a thin tan film. The scent is very minimal and faint, sweet dried fruit pervades the aroma. The taste is more like a barley wine but there is a lot of bitterness here. It doesn’t appear that the bitterness comes from hops it just is slightly bitter in the aftertaste. Decent BW expected more.

Thanks to footbalm for sending this. Pours a hazy orange/amber that shows an average sized head of off-white. Big caramel aroma with some dried fruits at the edges. Moderately sweet flavor profile, but not overly complex. Well done, but I would expect a little more dimension and depth in a Barleywine from this brewer.

Bottle from 1FastSTi. I’d like to take a second to state what the brewers say about this beer: Ruby appearence. Fruity nose. Rich, thick, malty body. Stiff hop backbone. Thank you ma’am, may I have another? No I can’t have another!!(althought I have another stored away for future use). All the things the label says are true but they forgot to add the part where a massive bandaid flavor dulls all the other wonder flavors. My soon to be wife says she didn’t taste any bandaids but her palate is not as safisticated as mine. I’m hopeing the plastic flavor subsides but as of now you will be singing the stuck on bandaid song about this beer.