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Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
8133.65/5.03.65/5.0Winter11.1%70.7Snifter
Commercial Description:
At Weyerbacher, we prefer to brew things true to European style guidelines, so our barley wine is definitely on the malty side, without being overly sweet. Notes of date or perhaps fig on the palate follow a pleasurably malty aroma to your taste buds. The finish is warm and fruity, and begs for the next sip.
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BT (85), Newtown, Connecticut, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/517/20
Jun 17, 2006  
I remember enjoying this, but it was too long ago for a review at this time. 20060617.


 NachlamSie (1641), Tennessee, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 14, 2006  
bottle. Attractive dark cloudy brown with a thin, white head. The aroma displays plenty of alcohol, dense caramel, and bready, fresh-barley notes. Mildly dense mouthfeel with a palate full of sweet, though not cloying, caramel. The bitterness comes across in a grassy fashion and mixes well with the tame alcohol burn. Faint burboun notes ring throughtout. Solid effort. Certainly a manly brew.


 oldrtybastrd (1801), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 13, 2006  
Pours a hazy reddish brown. Aromas of hops, caramel malts, kind of medicinal. Flavor is to strong for me, big alcohol taste, malty with a dark fruit taste.


 ehhdayton (1113), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/58/104/515/20
Jun 7, 2006  
An aroma of spices, caramel, and hops are evident. The color is a cloudy brown with no head. The flavor has a strong malty flavor with a spicey hop balance that finishes with an alcohol and fruit flavor.


 Cletus (5057), Connecticut, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
May 28, 2006  
Pours orange with a thin white head. Smells of toffee, caramel and earthy hops. Tastes of berries and chewy caramel. Mouthfeel is thick and oily. Finishes of strong alcohol.


 Terminus (1955), Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/54/102/512/20
May 26, 2006  
12 oz bottle-pours fire red with a redish-kacki tinged head. aromas of cinnamon, fussel alcohol, very light aging and some apples. wow, now thats one harsh palate-alcohol soaked-dark fruit with some rubbing-alcohol kick. man, this is awful! Over the top alcohol all the way through even after it warmed considerably. I had to dump this. no balance and very unpleasant.


 nolankowal (851), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/517/20
May 24, 2006  
Many thanks to JHop for this one. Pours an opaque burnt orange/brown color with a yellowish-light tan head that rapidly turns to a super fine film over the top. Super sweet caramel malt fills the aroma along with some rasin and perhaps some tabacco. Getting tons of caramel malt in the flavor too along with dark fruits, alcohol, and maybe some honey with a touch of lemon zest. Big and malty over the tounge...sweet for the most part with a dry sourness creeping up into and through the finish. Full bodied and pretty nice barley wine though it could use a bit more balance in the flavor department...the alcohol seems to come out a bit too much and muddles the finsih.


 GeneralGao (3057), Iowa City, Iowa, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
May 19, 2006  
12 oz bottle. Hazy reddish-orange color with bubbly off white head. Smells of grape soda and molasses. Strong malty molasses flavor with plenty of sweetness and alcohol. Sticky and full bodied.



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