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Victory Old Horizontal

Victory Old Horizontal - Barley Wine

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100
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Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine

Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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12214.04/5.04.04/5.0Winter10.5%98.3Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Luxuriously rich in character, this warming winter ale delivers over 10% alcohol in an oh-so-seductive manner. Deliciously fruity flavors lie under a bracing hop nose.
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 Enjoyit (1697), Vadum, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/59/104/516/20
Feb 7, 2008  
Hazy amber of color with a beige head. An aroma of sweet malt, caramel, hits of hops and rubber. A oily flavor of hops and caramel.


badnloose (99), North Hollywood, California, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/58/105/518/20
Feb 6, 2008  
Bottle. Smooth pour with a delightful ruby-amber color, and a very light cream head which is slow to dissipate. Initial hop kick gets delightful upon second taste. None too discernible aroma. Warm alcohol finish, thanks to the ABV. Darn good.


 Tilley4 (218), Huron, Tennessee, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/517/20
Feb 6, 2008  
One of the sweetest barleywines I’ve ever had. Beautiful rust coloration in the glass and smells extremely sweet and fruity as well as malty. Very good dark fruit sweetness mixed with malt and maybe a touch of hops make this a pleasure to drink. Little boozy on the finish but still a really good one. Got another bottle that I think I will let age a while longer.


 TheJester (694), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Feb 4, 2008  
12 oz bottle courtesy of radiomgb. (Purchased 06/30/06). Cloudy amber-orange with a lot of sediment. Orange-brown head fades quickly to a ring. The aroma contains American hops, alcohol, and malt, in that order. (In that odour?) Nice. There are a tonne of hops in the flavour, as well, but there is a strong enough malt backbone to keep the hops from being overwhelming. The combination brings out some nice sweet citrus, caramel, and just a bit of pine and licorice. Thick, creamy, full body. Aptly named.


 grimreeser (795), Minnesota, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Feb 4, 2008  
Pours a nice reddish brown with a small head. Aroma of fruit, sugar, some hoppiness. Nice sweetness, good bitterness, finishes with a light nice alcohol burn. Good stuff.


 CheersMate1 (770), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/105/518/20
Feb 3, 2008  
Very sweet aroma. Very fruity. I am very impressed by this actually. I can smell the yeast slightly. I also cannot help to mention I smell figs like crazy. i bought the beer about a month ago. I also let it sit out a while before I tried it, that way I could taste everything. The beer has a nice bubbly head. The beer looks like fig juice, if there was such a thing. Very caramel almost a hint of purple in this thing. I cannot say the color impresses me too much, but still a nice looking beer. When you hold it up to the light you get that nice caramel brown color to really show through. Wow, that beer is very malty and smooth. It has an awesome palate. I can say that this beer deserves the 5/5 palate rating. It is almost silky. Leaves a nice smooth feeling on your tongue. The flavor is a bit interesting. The ABV in this beer is high, but I feel that for how smooth the palata is considering the matls, the alcohol should not show up that much. Very pronounced fruit flavors. The fruit taste just sits on your tongue, and the bitterness is balanced damn near perfectly with the malts. I can taste the figs more than anything. I also can taste the caramel malts, but I am happier to taste the fruits than the malts. I am just concentrated on how well they hid the bitterness. I love IPAs, check my profile, but some barley wines are targeted towards making the beer annoyingly bitter. This has the malt balance it needs. Very delicious beer, and worth drinking again.


 mcox90 (618), Wilton, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 3, 2008  
12 oz. bottle. Pours a reddish orange color with a 1/2" off white head. Not much in the way of lacing. Initial flavor was quite hoppy with dark fruits in the background. As my glass warmed flavors of malt, dark candy (Choc covered cherries ?) & more dark fruits, dates,figs, came out of the background and into the forefront. Quite complex and delicous.


zach272 (3), USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Victory Old Horizontal does not count
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/515/20
Feb 2, 2008  
lovely rich nut brown, big lingering tan head. aroma: tons of toasty malt, chocolate, some coffee, yeast. rich, somewhat viscous mouthfeel. persistent but moderate hop presence over massive caramel malt flavors, chocolate and figs. hops and malt linger on the tongue



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