Victory Old Horizontal

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

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.

Sampled at the Hopsnobbery Collective barley wine tasting on 3.14.09. Clear amber color with a thin tan head. Malty aroma with alcohol and a bit of sourness. Grape flavor with sweet malt, yeast and alcohol.

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.

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.

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.

At tasting session by Joes. A clear red/brown colored beer, with a little beige head. The aroma is fruity sweet, some dark fruits and a little hop. The taste of dark fruits, cognac, with malts and hops. Some nuts in the back. The aftertaste is bittersweet and a little dry.

Dark amber, transparent pour with minimal head. Smells fruity with notes of cardboard and maybe Saaz hops... slightly bitter with the sweet. Nice carbonation, and well-balanced. Hoppy and slightly citrusy as well as expectedly malty. Again, nice slight bitterness on the finish.

bottle. smuggled home from NYC. hazy amber pour. effervecence with tiny caramal colored tiny bubbled head. fruity, caramel, malty, hops aroma with strong alcohol presence. WOW! Amazingly smooth. Nice apricot clean taste. Sugary malts come later and linger nicely in the aftertaste with a touch of sweet chocolate. Hints of oak barrel. This is one hell of a beer. Victory!