Victory Old Horizontal

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

12 oz bottle, tulip glass. Cookie, caramel malt (M); grapfruit, pine hops (H); white grapes, pear aromas. Hazy brown-amber body is crowned by a tall, creamy, eggshell head that is slowly diminishing. Heavily sweet flavor becomes a moderately bitter, moderately sweet finish. There's a very big peach flavor in the finish...almost cloying and I'm not a huge fan of peaches to begin with. Medium-heavy body, oily texture, soft carbonation. The bottom line is: the hops don't seem to fight off the sweetness very much...

12oz - Bottled 12/14/04 - Happy birthday to me! - (thanks Jeffin7) Aroma is full of carmel. Hops, leather, oak, and a touch of dark fruit. Pours a deep carmel color with a little head and great lacing. Flavor matches aroma with a bit more alcohol. Still "toasty" after a year in the cellar. Palate is sticky and tart, but clean. First one ever. Need to try a freshy and one aged longer to figure out my perfect Old Ho.

Pours a redish amber color with tan head. Fruity aromas of pear or cherry. I can’t figure out which. Some hints of pine as well. Slightly carbonated, smooth sweet taste. First tastes of wood then finishes a little bitter. Well balanced and really good.

Hoppy citrus aroma. About the same bitterness as Bigfoot, but a little maltier and sweeter. Not as sweet as 3 Floyds Behemoth. Taste some fruitiness. Bitter, sweet finish. Mighty good.

Brown bottle, 12 ounces, purchased on August 26, 2006 while visiting Beers of the world (Rochester) with Dum, Ian and Lubière; eye: looks thick as you poor it, brown with caramel reflections, not much head that leaves a ring around the glass, lacing; nose: hops, caramelized malt, alcohol, pepper, clove; mouth: caramelized malt, then hops that arrives rapidly and stays until the end, supported by a brandy-like taste, finale in hops wrapped in caramelized malt which turns into a hops-malt-alcohol chocolate, midly sweet, quite bitter, full body, slick and alcoholic texture, average carbonation; overall: really good FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, acheté le 26 août 2006 chez Beers of the world (Rochester) lors d’un mémorable voyage avec Dum, Ian et Luc; oeil : semble dense lorsqu’on la vide, brune avec des reflets caramels, faible mousse beige qui forme un anneau autour du verre, dentelle; nez : houblon, malt caramélisé, alcool, poivre, clou de girofle; bouche : malt caramélisé, puis le houblon qui s’amène en trombe et demeure jusqu’à la toute fin, soutien de brandy, finale en houblon enrobé de malt caramélisé puis qui se transforme en une sorte de chocolat au houblon, malt et alcool, moyennement sucrée, assez amère, corsé, texture lisse et alcoolique, moyennement carbonatée; en résumé : très bonne

Bottle poured a dark caramel with a decent head that burned off to a light skim. Aroma is sweet malt, overly ripe fruits and light alcohol. Flavor is sweet, caramel and dark fruits with a sweet alcohol finish.

deep mohagany in color small white head, a rich aroma had a mix of sherry notes, hops and some sweet malts. Initianl flavor had A mild fruit note with some sweet caramel notes a nicly hopped finish complememnted its warming alcohol presecnce.

Like an Old Nick from Young"s, but with better balance between sweet malt and classic noble European hops. Plenty of malt and plenty of hops, plenth of caramel and toffee sweetness, with a clear slam of fresh bitter cherries. Interestingly, we both tasted cherries, but were assured that, just as with the V10, there is no fruit or fruit juice added to this beer. At just under 11% the warming presence of alcohol is very obvious, but the perfect balance can hide it and make the beer deceptively easy to drink. This is not a session beer. This is not 'one for the road.' As the name and the label both suggest, you drink this and then you go to bed! // Rerated Dec 8 and I still agree with most of what I wrote before. Balance is wonderful for a barley wine, but there may be just too much alcohol presence and fruity shrillness for my taste. Hard to fault them ... they are signatures of barley wine ... but they are not my favorite tastes in a wine. That said, this is a beautiful barley wine and, having had one, I am certainly going to bed.