 craftycarl21 (174), South Hero, Vermont, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Pours a light golden amber with minimal head. Aroma is quite sweet and fruity, very light, with pineapple and peach. Flavor is much like a sweet white wine, maybe a riesling. Definite alcohol presence. Very unique and interesting, though seems out of its style for a barleywine. Not too bad; half rye composition is an interesting twist.
Jblauvs (151), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Yellow pour with a dissipating head. Light vinous aroma of sweet fruit. Flavor is light as well with some fruits - dried pineapple, apricot. Very Vinous and a little odd. Unique experience that I probably wont seek again
oteyj (313), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Pours yellowish amber with not head but lots of carbonation. Nose is fruity- apricot and pineaplpe as well as caramel and sweet malt, and resembling the aromas one might find in a vienna. Flavor is prickly but thin. A unique offering indeed, having qualities of a sweet white wine as well as the sweetness of a barley wine. Interesting, but not astonishing.
Rastacouere (5258), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Aug 17, 2008 Objectively speaking:
Intensely sweet braleywine in which the ridiculously high rye proportion provides a ridiculously low impact.
I like:
Perhaps not as sweet as most Weyerbacher huge beers. Most welcome fruity nuances.
I dislike:
Quite the typical Weyerbacher unpolished character. Seriously light bodied for a barley wine, especially a rye one with such sugariness. Biting, poor carbonation. Surprisingly one-dimensional multi-grains bread malt flavours, rough and alcohol infused. Very grainy. I wonder what % of sugar sources might come from sugars rather than grains.
MartinT (4307), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Aug 13, 2008 My Bottom Line:
Honeyed peaches and citrusy tartness flow in the alcohol creek that is this prickly and brash Rye Barley Wine.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surrounds the light amber, full of tiny yeast particles.
-This is one of the rare beers I’ve had brewed with rye which has a very lean body; it’s close to being frail for a beer of this style family.
-The nose is tame and does not activate any of my salivary glands; strange for the style.
-Some crunchy cereals are tasted too.
-Prickly, hard bubbles increase the impression of harshness, but help carry the intense flavors.
-My palate just doesn’t agree with most of Weyerbacher’s strong beers. I keep trying, but it just doesn’t work, even though the brews are clean. Oh well.
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