Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot

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

The aroma is sweet spicy with notes of cloves, prunes, and raisins. The color is dark amber and it has a small orange head. The flavor is very sweet and very warm with notes of malt, caramel, raisins, and plums. A wonderful beer.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Dark, clear, amber colour with a small, beige head. Spicy, caramelish, alcoholic nose. Very delicately malty with loads of caramel and pronounced notes of dried fruit. Sweetish and soft, and not excessively bitter. Nice Barley Wine. 240705

Dark amber. Very fruity, soft and malty with balanced bitterness.

Bottle [Vintage 2005]. @<a href=http://ratebeer.com/forums/thisted-kalder target=_new> Thisted Tasting by Maria.. Clear medium to dark amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, dark raisin, wood - oak, light alcoholic. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. (120408)

Bottled. Orange red coloured with a beige head. Sweet aroma of malts, fruits and alcohol. Sweet flavour of malts, fruits and alcohol and notes of liquorice.

Date: March 30, 2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market, DC
Appearance: dark amber, thin beige head
Aroma: strong tart malty aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor, lots of fruity essence, becomes slightly alcoholic after warming

Date: March 07, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: blind tasting
Vintage: 2002
Score: 2.7
Appearance: hazy dark amber, fine beige head
Aroma: sweet dark caramel aroma with a light fruity and an earthy balance
Flavor: tart and oxidized dark caramel flavor, touch of fruity character brings back the sweetness, earthy character keeps it balanced, light bitter finish, past its prime

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *4

Bright golden-amber with thin head. The aroma is sugary with a deep fruitiness (date, raisin, dark cherry) and all kinds of chewy malts. Sweet palate and full body. A little bit sticky. Lots of sugars, but they are soft, not cloying. The fruitiness is still present, but less prevalent. There is some light caramel and toffee, along with apple and light raspberry notes. Sweet, long barley wine. Finish is sticky, with a blast of alcoholic dryness.

2009-09-02, bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm, vintage 2004, 5 years old, 7-5-7-4-14=37
Hazy red-amber color, hazy; creamy head. Caramel aroma, with a plum side, and some alcohol. Reasonable body stength, mature caramel flavor, medium sweetness, plum touch and raisins; correct bitterness, but the final is not sweet as it should be. So aged, it reminds me more an American version of Belgian Strong Ale than a Barley Wine.

2007-04-25, bottle, 8-4-8-4-17=41
Beautiful amber color; thin persistent head. Malty aroma, spicy, perfumy; interesting. Malty flavor, not too sticky, spicy, peppery; sweetness and balanced bitterness; the alcohol burns a bit. A very good strong ale, powerful; too much yeast in the bottle. More Belgian style (the yeast?) than English.