Upstream Barleywine

Brewed by Upstream Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Omaha, Nebraska USA

Courtesy Phillybeer2112. Pours a lighter brown color, with a small of white head. Smells of deep dark malts, mild hop bitterness, and bready yeast. typical BW aroma. The flavor is also very typical but solid overall. the hop bitterness comes out in the finish, with the big malts and some dark fruits makingup its flavor profile up front. Mild alcohol burn in the finish, but masked pretty well overall. not bad at all.

Draught at GABF 2008. Clear amber coloured with a medium sized off white ehad. Sweeet aroma of dried fruits, cookies and caramel. Sweet flavour of fruits, dried fruits, caramel and cookies with notes of alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish.

From a bottle at the 2008 Parkville Microbrewers Festival. Pour hazy copper with a dark tan head. Oak vanilla and cherry nose. Lots of wood and caramel flavors and very bitter. Medium body. High carbonation. Long dry bitter finish. This is a big sippin’ beer.

Date: 07/15/2006
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting, RBSG, 2006

clear dark amber, whispy white head, huge sweet malt aroma, lots of sweet malt flavor, an earthy woody essence, a touch of hot alcohol,
-------- /> Date: 08/03/2006
Source: aa

lots of sweet bourbon and vanilla in the aroma and flavor,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **4

RBSG07. From 75 cL bottle. Pours orange hazy. Aroma of malt and corn. Slight sweet and malty flavoured. Finish is malty bitterhops

Sampled on 7/15/06 at the RBSG ’06 Grand Tasting out of a growler courtesy of Sledge Jr: Pours a transparent copper orange with a thin, wispy ring of off-white head. Aroma of huge viscous sweet sticky honey and caramel malt with a healthy dose of alcohol. Body starts with a big sticky sweet fruity caramel toffee flavor along with some complex dark fruits, vanilla, butterscotch and a smooth, thick malty palate. Has a sticky warming finish but hides the alcohol relatively well.

750ml bottle. Pours a bright copper color, with a tight one finger head that settles slowly to a thin cap and ring. The resulting lace is thick, and sticks nicely to the sides of my glass. Smell; hints of oak-barrel, with a significant presence of whiskey. There’s some hints of fruits and grains, but everything seems to be a bit overrun by the oak barrel and whiskey aromas. Taste; lots of fruit flavors with apples, raisins and plums, and maybe a little bit of figs as well. The middle has a nice sweet maltiness that fades into the oak-barrel and whiskey notes. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied, with a very smooth carbonation that leads to a very nice drinkability. So far this is the best beer that I’ve had from Upstream. I think I may have to go back for a couple more bottles.

A hazy dark amber beer with a fast dying beige head. The aroma has strong notes of wood, alcohol, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruit, and lesser notes of wood, and with the alcohol burning towards the end. The mouthfeel is very thick - like syrup.