Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Very drinkable. Aroma of sweet malt . Color of muddy water. Taste is sweet with a heavy malt finish. Alcohol provides a small finishing heat.

It has a delicious bready cherry aroma with a woody edge, rather like a cherry pie in a maple pie safe. The color is a muddy ochre. The taste is sweet, alternating between bubble gum, candy, and horehound, with a mossy undertone. The taste of moss fades to weak grass and prune. This beer has outstanding complexity, acceptable balance, and a chewy mouthfeel. The alcohol is hardly noticeable.

Aroma of alcohol and grape malts. Clear amber color with an off white head. Starts with sweet malts and smoother than I thought it would. Moderate alcohol burn develops in the finish. Mildly creamy palate.

Pours a fairly clear dark maroon/brown with a small off white head. Alot of caramel malt, molasses, cinnamon, and maybe some dark fruits as well. The flavor is much the same, really nicely balanced and pretty flavorful. The caramel malts seem to be dominant as well as the molasses flavors. The finish is slightly sweet and very malty. The aftertaste consists of cinnamon and malts. Very nice barley wine.

I was noticing the intro by the brewer, they use terms like "without being overly sweet", they are almost wrong. This is one sweet barley wine (which ones aren’t) but they were almost wrong. This is one sweet figgy beer here but if you like this style this one is for you. Beware this will get you way tanked without any warning, but it’s worth it.

12oz bottle brewed fall/winter 2005, aged almost 2 years. pours dense red with small off white head. nose is very nicely oxidized sherry type notes, lots of dried plums and tobacco with sweet cotton candy/brown sugar notes in the background, and tar. flavor is still pretty sweet with cotton candy and brown sugar notes along with some aged malt notes of sweet tobacco. it’s not too alcoholy at this point, but it is too sweet and syrupy. although the aged malts have aided this beer nicely. i’d probably go another 2 years next time, i think it can handle it. drying it out a bit more and increasing the oxidized notes.

Clear, reddish bronze pour. Pasty and sweet aroma. Oranges, cinnamon bread, and thick fruit syrup on the nose. A whiff of the bathroom floor. Hot, taut flavor of honey, strawberry, expiring dark fruits, and vanilla toffee. Sweet nutty tones and cranberries for a dark, booze-soaked trail mix crunch. A mild medicinal tang and an even quieter hint of steak sauce. Simplistic. Thin, slick palate. Earthy warmth and dirty candy in the finishing pulse. Empty. Too fresh, but likely to be insubtantial in any case.

This one pours a deep reddish brown with a head that quickly fades. The nose is not as big and sweet as many other European b wines. It has a mild bitterness, but not too much hoppiness going on. The taste has a prune, or raisiny taste to it with a brief shot of vanilla candy at the end.