Upstream Batch 1000 Barley Wine

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

Pours a copper color with a tan head. Aroma is malty, astringent, toasty, alcohol, and some sweet juicy hops. Flavor is malty, caramel, toast, and a bitter juicy finish.

Thanks to Geoff at Bailey’s for sharing this beer--From a 750-ml bottle--Poured a light amber-orange body with a fluffy whitish head. Soft, floral, piquant nose. Sweet and boozy. Not well balanced and finished with some funky ethanol bite. Eh.

Pours an orangish golden. Lots of ripe fruit in the aroma. Flavor is sweet malt and fruitiness. Thick and sweet on the tongue. This one has gotten better with age.

750 wax sealed bottle from valpoaj. Pours an amber/orange color. Thick and cloudy look to this brew. Sweet, bready, malty, with light fruity aroma. Thick, sticky, and syrupy on the palate. Chewy mouthful of sweet malt and light earthy hop finish.

Wax sealed 750ml bottle. Brown sugar and bubblegum in the aroma, faint apple and cherry notes, along with some light toffee, wood, faint breadiness and a touch of blueberry. Clear light-medium amber color, no head to speak of. Flavor is sweetly malty and warming, very full malt profile overall, dark and sugary, the yeast doughy and estery, along with a good dosage of spicy bitterness. Sweet, yes, but nicely balanced out by the alcohol and hop character. Smooth, lightly sticky mouthfeel, body is very full. Really pretty nice. Thanks to theisti for the chance to try this rare Barleywine.

Bottle shared by theisti at his Holiday Tasting on 12/28/07. Pours a clear orange-red with a thin, creamy, beige head. Super sweet, on the nose, with a malty, dark fruit front and lesser notes of biscuit and faint pine rounding out the aroma. Medium-bodied and silky with a dry, "warm" finish. The flavor is sweet and vinous with solid notes of brown sugar and English walnuts, concluding with a hit of alcohol at the finish. This is an interesting and unique barley wine. Thanks for sharing this one with us, Tim.

750 ml bottle (June 07) purchased at Beertopia in Omaha, Nebraska, enjoyed at my Holiday Mini Tasting. Pour is reddish gold with a head that went away fast. Aroma of sweet biscuity malt, and some sweetness. Taste is really sweet, almost to the point of cloying. Some hop brightness to the finish. Not terribly refined, but pretty interesting nonetheless.

Cookie dough, caramel, hay, toffee, some nice spicy notes (black pepper?), light citrus and fruit. Malty, caramel, and toffee followed by krispy kreme glaze, some woodsy notes and more caramel. Nice bitterness at the end balances the sweetness, but the finish is still a little sweet.