 holdenn (1432), Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 8, 2007 12 oz bottle from Sam’s Wine and Spirits. Pours a clear ruby amber with a tan head. Malty nose red fruit, citrus, and pine hops. Sweet and fruity malt flavors apples, berries, pine, grapefruit, some bitterness. Smooth and slick with a full body. The alcohol is a little too present making it a little cough syruppy, but overall a good beer.
JensenTaster (1585), Denmark
May 4, 2007 (on bottle, thanx Maj) Very full aroma, tons of grapes, herbs, gummibears and nuts. Extremly mild in both taste anf mouthfeel, like whiped cream on drugs. Halts out pretty sweet and malty, to be haven real cold.
jmikolich (405), Athens, Ohio, USA
May 2, 2007 12oz bottle, smells sweet, tastes sweet and leaves a sweet residue on the lips very sweet, no taste of alcohol which is refreshing at 10.5% however i get no hop profile as other people have mentioned.. a darn decent barley wine.
theisti (1640), Leawood, Kansas, USA
May 1, 2007 Updated: Mar 3, 200912 oz. Bottle from 2006, drank in 2006. Pour is ruby amber with a bigger off white head then I would have expected for a Barley Wine, though it went away fairly quickly. Aroma is malt, with some fruitiness. I would say it is cranberries and raisins. Taste has a bit of hop to it, and a nice big malt body. Finish was a bit hot, I will be cellaring the remaining from the 6 pack.
BillVanE (19), Zeeland, Michigan, USA
Apr 30, 2007 This one I like a lot. aromas of prunes, raisins, dates and in the taste that seems to heighten ten fold moderately sweet. the after taste is of bitter alcohol.
RCL (1443), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Apr 30, 2007 Taste is an explosion of banana, bubble gum, and dried fruits (dates, hint of apple) shot through with crisp citrus hops. Delicious.
railcat1 (578), Orlando, Florida, USA
Apr 29, 2007 Had on DLD.A.sweet and ruby colored beer with fruity overtones and hop finish to it and alcohol is strong but good.CHEERS!
sersdf (1000), chicago, Illinois, USA
Apr 28, 2007 too bad it’s not lovejoy’s old horizontal. appearance is red as your mom’s cooter will be in forty minutes. she’s a demon in the sack. surprising amount of head, a caseous brown mustard color. so malty compared the barleywines i’ve had recently. actually some bockish sweet malt. lots of it. some resiny hops. nuts and honey. actually some bockish flavors without being lagerish. hard to describe that. closest i can is comparing to the sweet fermented plum rinds you get in a dopplebock. i may have let this warm up too much, but i still like it. i liked it a lot the last two times i had it, too. probably my favorite victory. bottom of the glass now. still kinda lagerish. the alcohol is both helping the flavor and overpowering the beer.
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