Victory Old Horizontal

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Very sweet mouthfeel; sticky. Nice dark orange color. Taste is malts, caramel. Very sweet and warm. You can taste roasted malts in there, but still some heavy sweetness. Can i call it ’dense’? Would get again.

This beer looks great. It is a deep brown, with a beige head forming over it. The head grows too large if you don’t pour it just right. It actually looks so nice that when I poured mine in a glass one of my friends demanded that I bring him a glass because it looked that good. The aroma is intense and fruity (citrusy). The taste slams you in the mouth. Not only is the beer thick as all hell, but the multifarious array of flavours knocks you back. It is sweet, bitter, fruity, hoppy all at the same time. The alcohol gives it a warming quality and the alcohol is nearly undetectable if it were not for the aforementioned quality. Now, typically I don’t mention this in beer reviews, but this beer is great to get drunk off of. After having two you feel like you just spent two hours at the bar. The drunk it produces is a heavy, lazy drunk, slipping you into a mild euphoria that only a beer of this quality could. It is more of a wine drunk than a beer drunk and one case of these babies will make a good 5-6 people happy.

Thanks Drewbeerme for this one for his bachealor party. 12oz Orange amber with small white head. Orange and sweet aroma. Orange sweet, pine with bubblegum flavor, very well done. Med body. Nice overall like to try this one again. ------- 1/25/08 Bottle, expiration date is 2011. Cloudy orange brown with medium beige head. Aroma is big alc, caramel, citrus fruit, lots of of orange hops, very nice. Big alc, perfumy, sweet malt, okay. Medium body and lots of burn. Not as good as I remembered.

Bottle, enjoy by Dec 12, 2011. Pours with a very small creamy head. The flavor is that of a light hoppy and citrus brew, to be frankly, mild barley wine beer. Warms completely. My bottle says 11%, so I don’t know if they’ve changed the brew since then. I think I’m gonna get another one and let it age a few years! Update: Bottle drunk 01/28/08, bottled 12/14/04. Oh wow. Aroma is mellowed greatly. Notes of vanilla, sweet, molasses. Flavor was mild vanilla, with a subtle maple and slightly sweet finish. Alcohol taste was practically non-existent for a 11% beer. Ages very well.

Bottle from john_adam2002. Pours with a thin creamy head of fine bubbles blanketing the surface of dark amber beer. Great looking beer. Malty citrus aroma. Flavor starts off leaning towards a nice hoppy bitterness, but then leans towards malty sweetness as the beer warms up. Well and very drinkable, despite the 10.5%. Could do with a bit of aging, but very good as is! Mmmmm tasty.

Sweet, bitter , citrus and flowery aromas, Flavors of oranges and caramel. Very clean tasting barlywine not mediciny or syrupy like most. Nice amount of carbonation, finishes slightly bitter with a hopy taste.

xxx very good beer. Victory is one of the best brewery out there and you cant go wrong with anything they make., I didn’t realize this was a barleywine when I first had it, so I tasted it and thought there was a strong alcohol presence, when I found out it was 10.5%, i was impressed how well hidden that much alcohol was.

12 oz bottle accidently purchased at South Bay drug. Nice amber reddish pour with little head that dissapated quickly. Aromas of fruits, flowers, and hops. Nice flavors of malts and hops balance out well with tastes of little alcohol. Very good, and a nice surprise.