7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Sample at the Blarney Wine tasting on 03/16/2013. Pours a dark copper-honey color with a medium thin off-white head that diminishes quickly to a film. Spotty lacing on the glass. The aroma is somewhat boozy with caramel and ripe fruits. Rich body with flavors of caramel malt, citrus, slight hops and warming alcohol. The finish is nearly cloyingly sweet with a lingering malt aftertaste. Pretty good overall.

4.6

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 18

The Nose is complex, as you would hope at the alcohol level -- apricots, prunes, brown sugar, a shave of chocolate, a medicinal effect and dark fruit are featured. The body is rich and dense, with taste highlights including, caramel, butterscotch, massive amounts of dark fruit, prunes, dates and apricots, sweet bready malt, scotch whiskey and a Dogfish-head-traditional hint of vanilla. Some fruity hop underpinning. A lovely soft carbonation allows the taste to come forward. Well rounded and integrated. As the beer approaches room temperature, the Caramel and the hop bite step forward. Love big beers that morph with temperature! In the conversation for the best large beer I have ever sampled.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Reddish murky amber. Small thin white head. Figs and plums and cedar and caramel and apricot. Dates fruits booze wood nd burn.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

thanks to mcbackus for the bottle!
pours a dark amber/brown. After a hard pour, i got a tiny biege head that disapeared quickly. Aroma is super malty with notes of caramel, figs, and alcohol. Flavour is again, VERY malty, and the figs flavour is really there, and quite enjoyable. The finishis quick, and boozy, and warms all the way down. Its an enjoyable sipper now, but it could really benefit from a few years in the cellar.

4

Oh god. It's rubbing alcohol.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Notes from April 2011 An approachable 32oz growler fill from New Beer. ;) Baby Duvel tulip. Gorgeous, clear, cherry/amber color. Just a faint wispy ring of off-white head. Smell is cherry pits upfront, followed by toasted malt & orange oil. Ugly aerosols soon follow. Mildly sweet, slightly caramelized malt. A woody/barky note. Appropriate oxidation I think. Soapy, more so then rindy hops. Light sour cherry & notes of fruit peel. Bitter, dried out finish helps me endure till the end. Slightly, slightly syrupy, but lots of carbonation & bitterness to keep things flowing. Not terribly difficult for the quoted 15%ABV, but it doesn't feel that far off. No warming effect. I'd guess 12%, based on DFH's notoriety for being inaccurate. It's missing that extra note, but it feels & drinks much better then most other American barleywines in my opinion.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled at a tasters choice get together on 11/19/2023. A big thanks to whomever shared this.

7

A dark reddish amber barleywine with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, light oxydation. In mouth, sweet fruity caramel malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, very nice for a 9 years old ale.

7

bottle at home.. may 2020... 2007 vintage... copper.. thin tan lacing lacing... soft Caramel toffee malts nose.. rich buggy woody malts.. rich roast.. warming malts.. Light sharp buggyness