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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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle from Saveur-Biere.fr. Pours a warm reddish brown with small off-white head. Intensely strong and sweet barley wine but oh so smooth with caramel and fruity notes taking turns to emerge. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2015
at 17:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle @ home. Clear deep red-brown color. Light beige head, uneven, rocky, sticky. Aroma’s: resinous with malty sweetness. Additionally some fruit and hash retronasal. Flavor is moderate sweet, some fruit, moderate bitter. Medium bodied. Finishes herbal spicy, moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Nice try, but not totally convincing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2015
at 00:21
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle @ Drie Dorstige Herten. Clear dark red brownish coloured with an offwhite head. Nose is sweet, spicy, caramel, some hop bitterness. Flavour is caramel malts, candy sweetness, light spicy, light hoppy. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2015
at 10:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Brown copper beer. Aroma of raisin, caramelised malt and a little passion fruit. Taste is quite bitter, with sharp grapefruit and pine, caramelly raisin, biscuit and some booze. Thin body, with a slightly soapy finish. Weird beer, I don?t really like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2015
at 16:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Clear dark brown colour, dense beige head. Aroma is quite hoppy, pine, grass, some citrus, mostly pine/spruce, toast, malts. Flavour is malty, toast with some burnt edges, some caramel, some alcohol, mostly hoppy with pine and some citrus, bitter finish. Medium bodied. I just really don’t like hops that smell and taste like eating a pine tree that much. This would’ve been so much nicer (for me) with more floral and fruity hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2015
at 02:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at gollem. Pours rather clear, dark brown copper glow. Ok white head. Smell is bit sweet, hoppy bitterness. Taste is bit bitter, malts hoppy character, good mouthfeel, less thick than the average BW , but very nice for the beer it is. Bitter back. Good carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2015
at 19:52