Bridgeport Barley Wine
Brouwerij 't IJ in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: Marz Community Brewing Co.Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.22
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This is a beer brewed in Amsterdam by our American friends from Marz Brewing, Chicago, and named after the neighbourhood where their own brewery is based. Unsurprisingly, there is a heavy American influence here, which means lots of hops, American hops. Nonetheless, their bitterness is beautifully balanced with the equally significant amount of malt a barley wine naturally requires. There is plenty of roasted and caramalt in the rich malt base of this deep, dark, glowing beauty. This American barley wine has a full, soft, rich but very balanced taste. To top it all off, there is a rich, full, creamy layer of foam.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Sjogro. Bright amber with small white head. Lots of brown sugar, sweet nuts, very herbal with bitter French herbs and green tea. Almonds, quite some yeast on the nose but in the aroma it’s overpowered by the sweeter notes. Some sweet tea, honey, peach yoghurt. Taste is medium sweet with a matching medium vegetal bitterness. Over medium bodied with low carbonation. Decent for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2015
at 18:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled@Arendsnest, Amsterdam. Deep amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is ripe fruits, alcohol, sweet malts and some mild fruity and floral notes to it. Flavour is fruity, alcoholic, some ripe fruits, mild toffee, some rye bready notes. OK, apart from the big strong booziness to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2015
at 00:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
33 cl bottle @ De Arendsnest, Amsterdam. BBE 01/2016 Aroma is sweet and heavy with resiny notes and ripe fruits. Also sweet-n-harsh malt. Flavour has resiny malt, woody tones, some minerals and fruity hops. Also menthol tones after some sips. ’t IJ house aroma is not present. Rather sweet and very American. Actually in blind tasting I would say this is a typical (hoppy) BW from USA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2015
at 09:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Klare orangebraune Farbe, fingerbreite beige Schaumkrone. Geruch intensiv malzig, reifes Obst, Karamell, alkoholisch. Geschmack kräftig malzig, sehr reife Früchte, alkoholisch, gering holzig, Karamell, dezente Bitterkeit.
Tried
on 21 Jun 2015
at 13:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Burg Bieren, batch 291 BB somewhere in 2016, large sample. Clear copper color, big frothy light brown head. Aroma of caramel, touch of roast and burnt caramel, bit piney and grapefruity hops, soft fruity. Soft sweet in taste, soft bitterness, malty body. Had this fresh as well, when it was way more hoppy. Now it seems it has toned down to an American Strong Ale type of beer. Quite nice stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2015
at 15:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle, thanks to MonsterMagnet (European Local swap 2/2015). Clear copper color with light beige head. Hoppy and light malty aroma, orange, pine, caramel. Sweet and light bitter taste, fruity and malty caramel again. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2015
at 15:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours dark brown with a creamy offwhite head. Aroma of malt, yeast, caramel, dark fruit, plum, light tart, wet wood. Flavor is light sweet, malty, caramel, dark fruit, plum, rather bitter old hops, wood, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, bitter finish with warming alcohol. 200515
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2015
at 13:01