O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company Barrel Aged Series - Barley Wine: Edition #3

Barrel Aged Series - Barley Wine: Edition #3

 

O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
6.29
ABV: 9.6% IBU: 45 Ticks: 14
In 2014, we continued to develop our barrel aged beers range, filling select whiskey barrels with our Barley Wine beer launched in 2013 as a limited edition cask conditioned beer. Deep ruby red in colour and aged for 90 days in Irish whiskey barrels, the flavour is complex and unique, combining the smoothness of chocolate malt, caramalt and roasted barley with tones of Irish whiskey.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle, 750 ml from Vrutak, Zagreb. Pours dark brown with small off-white head. Caramel, sweet, dark fruit, bit spicy. Bit sourish. Cannot get wood, oak or notes one would expect from barrel aged beer. Alcohol is not well subdued, bit too aggressive for me. Expected more really.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2016 at 05:37


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

At a tasting, thanks, almost no head, cloudy dark brown color, aroma of vanila, cake and candy with some nuttiness, flavor made of biscuity maltiness, dried fruits and candy but not Belgian like, really suprising sourness, a bit out of place. Very interesting but also quite difficult to drink.

Tried from Can on 24 Feb 2016 at 08:29


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle sample at my (post-)10,000th rating celebration tasting at Dancing Camel. Thanks Tom L. Dark brown. Aroma of caramel, toast, wood, dark fruits, wine, a bit of pralines, a vanilla hint. Sweet-sourish flavor with caramel, wood, dark fruits, wine, a bit of vanilla. Medium-bodied. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2016 at 06:41


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours a dark amber brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty woody caramel aroma. Fruity malty woody weak sour caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty woody caramel finish with weak hoppy hints.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Oct 2015 at 07:52


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle as shown thanks to Graeme. Pours a cloudy brown with small frothy white head. The aroma is leather, dark fruit. Thin mouthfeel with strong booze, candy sugar, dark fruit, decent.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2015 at 14:48


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

swing top bottle 750ml. -from Vrutak Zagreb. Almost black coloured, medium sized brown head, pleasant light spicy fruity nose. Moderate malty, quite strong dried fruits and plums with moderate strong alcohol presence. Also some caramel presence. No barrel character at all. Wasted 10€ for nothing.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2014 at 13:51


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

0.75 l bottle ogivlado kindly shared on the tasting, thanks a lot! It poured hazy dark brown body with small head. Weak aroma, had some hops, wood, brown sugar, burnt sugar also, not in that particular order of prominence. Flavor was similar, sweet caramel, roasted malt, coffee, some burnt caramel but also wood was very evident to me. Had some spices but not too much to make it more interesting. Alcohol was also felt rather much. Medium bodied with long sweetish, pretty simple and alcoholic finish. All together not really well executed barley wine, at contrary. Then if you add the high price into the account disappointment gets bigger. Too bad, the brewery had their moments with specials.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jun 2014 at 07:18


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Piwo takie sobie ogolnie. piekne opakowanie ale niezbyt piekne piwo. Slodkawe daktylowe ze srednia piana koloru brazowego metnego. Slodowosc bierze gore. Piwo bardziej przypomina bardziej abbaye dubbel niz barley wine. Alkohol lekko wyczuwalny i uderzajacy do glowy. Ta limitowana butelka i etykieta robi wieksze wrazenie niz sam smak tego piwa.

Tried on 16 Jun 2014 at 15:11


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle kindly shared by Croatian crew, many thanks. Dark red brown color with medium beige head. Strong fruity aroma with plums, and alcohol. Taste, plums, other red fruits, honey, roasted malt. Something is wrong with this beer.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2014 at 00:41