2014 Alaskana Series: Bore Tide
Midnight Sun Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.12
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Shig. Pours orange amber off white head. Nose/taste of rye, whiskey, oak, candi sugar, butterscotch, earthy and grassy citrus and wheat/banana. Full bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy amber, sweet canned peach nose, similar elements on the palate. Soft, fruity, malt-forward but reasonably dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Though labeled a \"barleywine\" by true nature of this style, this is actually a \"wheatwine\" which is slightly different.
Though I’m being pestered by a friend who is not usually here in Juneau with me, I’d like to tell him to go the fuck away, here is my take on what I can come up with at the moment (I hope to be back just in case I don’t do this beer its credit).
This was poured into a chalice.
The appearance was a semi-hazy brown color with a sly tinge of red along the sides. There is a slight transparency but no carbonation is seen rising. There is a film of a head to lower to a tad of a concave lacing around the sides.
The smell has a fair amount of boozy grainy light plum-like fruitinesss all over.
The taste was basically the same with a sticky taste all over.
On the palate, this one sat at a medium on the body with a fairly decent sesssionability about it.
Overall, in my opinion, this was a pretty good Wheatwine that I would have again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle: Poured a caramel copper color with no head to light floating bubbles. Aroma is vanilla and whiskey. Taste is sticky fruit, vanilla, whiskey, and a dry tongue finish.