Barrel Chested Barleywine Ale
Upland Brewing Company in Bloomington, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.04
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A complex strong ale aged in Willett Bourbon Barrels, this gentle giant pours a deep copper and offers a seductive sweetness and intriguing complexity.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at Beer Meets Wood on 09/23/2017. Cloudy reddish-mahogany color with a medium light beige head that diminishes steadily to a film. Patches of lacing. Aroma of bourbon, roasted malt and fruit. Medium to full body with flavors of bourbon, caramel malt and slight fruity hops. The finish is oaky with a bourbon and malt aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2017
at 21:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Non Beer Trip Beer Trip Beer #52. Keg at Whole Foods Wauwatosa 3/10/16. Brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of bourbon, toffee, wood. The taste is toffee, caramel, bourbon, wood, vanilla. Medium bodied, low carbonation, faint booze.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2016
at 00:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle, big ‘ups’ to shrubber85 for shipping this to me because… he felt like it, pours with a clear mahogany ruby red amber body that supports a tan head. The aroma offers up bourbon like booze, spicy oak, dusty oak and a mild molasses note. The taste delivers a pleasing malt and molasses like sweetness that slowly bleeds into bourbon booze and a growing spicy oakiness. The bourbon grows to midway as it picks up a light soft vanilla sensation amid a persistent oaky spiciness. Nice sipper where the barrel character is more forward than the beer. A bit more balance would be an improvement.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2016
at 21:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours quite cloudy reddish hazel, medium beige head, good lacing. Aroma is sweet and malty, bourbon, toffee, vanilla. Flavor is fully sweet, oaky, bourbon, dark sugars, some pine with associated light bitterness. Medium body, silky mouthfeel. Well crafted, perhaps a bit heavy handed in barrel use.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2016
at 16:27