Tyranena Spank Me Baby! Barley Wine

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

(Bottle via trade with <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-38026.htm target=blank>buckybeer, thanks Mark!) Wow this tastes smoked...Pours cloudy darkish amber with one finger of light amber head. Aroma is light but mostly vanilla, maybe some candy-malt sweetness, maybe a small dose of pine. Hint of plastic/vinyl as well. Mouthfeel reasonably full, pretty smooth, lightly sticky on back end. Nice persistent rings of weepy lacing. Flavor is quite smoky, esp. in fore (is this a smoked?). Tastes of bacon, vanilla, caramel, light rock candy, hints of grapefruit and pine. Fair bitter bite, esp. in finish. Lingering bitterish and sweet aftertaste. Not bad.

Thanks to Ughsmash for the bottle. Weak almost watery aroma with some caramel malt. Dark reddish brown in appearance. The palate is thick and sticky--quite nice. Taste is of hot caramel malt and plenty of hops. Seems to have a grainy quality to it with yeast flavors in the aftertaste.

Bottle provide via trade with Monger. Pours hazy tawny with a spare fizzy off-white head, mostly diminshing, spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel), average hops (flowers, perfume), average yeast (dough, musty) with notes of alcohol, peach, cherry and honey. Full bodied, creamy texture, soft carbonation and a bitter finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness.

Thanks brewblackhole. The color is a deep ruby, definitely reddish. The resulting head was thin, amberish, and didn’t last long. As with the barley wines I’ve had so far the aroma is wonderful. Sweet and fruity, definitely hints of alcohol, some caramel or sweet diacetyl. Last I had Old Ruffian and the aroma prepared me for something that didn’t come out. I’m afraid that this may be the case as well. And as it turns out I was right. Strange taste, very strange. Goodness, sort of lacks complexity as well. Okay, lets try and disec this. Alcohol for sure, musty basement taste, dificult to describe, not really hops and not really malty, although there is some sweet bread/caramel in there. Definitely a letdown after the aroma. Palate is average and the finish is warming. I hope their Bourbon Porter is better.

Received through trade with brewblakchole. The color was vibrant amber/orange. The head was thin, white and creamy. The aromoa was alcohol fruit, sweet caramel, and perhaps a slight aged taste. The flavor was a little earhty, alcohol, citris, and aged. The palate was full and smooth. The finish was warm and lingering.

Bottle from ryan. Pours out a reddish brown color without much of a head so to speak. Smell is fruity, similar to strawberries, with a nice light smoked smell. Taste is sweet and smokey, very similar to immort ale. Good stuff, pretty easy to drink. Not sure if this will benefit from age because I think its pretty good right now.

12oz bottle. Murky red-brown with a thin film of off-white head. Fruity esters and alcohol in the aroma, some alefruit. Herbal hoppiness and raisiny malt character. Large peaty smokiness manifests and lingers in the finish with some alcohol heat. Mouthfeel is a heavy medium, somewhat sticky.

Lots of alcohol with some slight hops in the aroma.Pours dark copper with a tan head.The flavor is very sweet.Mouthfeel is thin with a huge alcohol finish.