5.6

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

Erhöhte Karbonisierung. Süßer, nicht übertriebener Beginn von hellem Malz, etwas Karamell, erkennbarer Alkohol. Dafür vergleichsweise süffig, karamellig, milde Herbe, ölig, mittellanger Abgang. 10/8/9/8/11/8

7

33cl bottle. A hazy amber beer with a white head. Aroma of riped red fruits, caramel, raisins. Taste of riped red fruits, vanilla, wood, caramel, boozy finish.

7

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

Bottle: Light amber coloured, cloudy, medium-sized and slowly collapsing creamy off-white head, sweet caramelly-malty nose, dried fruits and honeyish honeyish spots underneath, mild traces of alcohol as well; solid sweet flavour, a little bitterness is well detectable, full bodied; slightly lingering honeyish-caramelly finish with illusions of dried fruits and a minimalistic balancing bitterness and a gentle alcohol-burn in the aftertaste. Good, even though pretty sweet...

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

14/11/2020. Bottle shared virtually at the lockdown 2.0 beer share. From Brew Str, Athens. Pours hazy amber brown with a small frothy off-white head. Aroma of toffee, wood, dried fruits, vanilla, dates, biscuit, honey. Medium sweetness and moderate bitterness. Full bodied, soft carbonation. Tasty.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle. Hazy, amber colour with average to huge, firm, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Initially surprisingly bretty, funky aroma shapes up as ephemeral, notes of oak and vanilla remain, caramel malty background with a touch of grape sugar, additionally a resinous touch of retsina, tannic overtones as well. Taste is sweet, sugary, caramel malty, dry oaky, vinous fruity, notes of grape sugar, retsina, some pale caramel, a touch of vanilla, vice versa lately emerging bretty, funky overtones; lingering, sweet-ish, toasty oaky finish, a minimally tart-ish, tannic touch as well. Oily to viscous texture, smooth and soft, dry and simultaneously minimally cloying palate, fine, prickly carbonation. Rich, complex, manifold and slightly oscillating, accordingly not permanently balanced; well hidden alcohol but definitely potent. A very, very nice Mediterranian interpretation of the style.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

23rd August 2020
Hazy deep gold - amber beer, good pale tan head. Smooth light palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. This is a light bright barleywine and in a really good way. Light, malts, light and nicely creamy. That malt base flows seamlessly into a bright dried fruits with a nice overlay of mildly ripe but bright orangey tangerine citrus. Modest brandy soaked fruits underneath. Smooth finish. This is a bright and very easy drinking barleywine. Session barleywine would be a bold and misleading description, but this is certainly a barleywine I could keep drinking, too quickly, until it coshed me round the rear bonce area and left me wondering what happened.

5.2

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

Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks troubles. Hazy amber. Malt, caramel, oxidation, cardboard, fruitiness, honey, sweet, boozy.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

bottle from crete. cloudy orange, small white head. Aroma is earthy and malty and sweet. Very barley wine'ish. Not thst excessively hopped, like barley wines was back in the good old days. Flavor is malts, honey, wood, perhaps even cedar wood, perhaps booze (bourbon), a little bit of alc. bitterness bite.. a good, strong , sweet barley wine.

6.8

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

Bottle from Maltby & Greek stall on Maltby Street, Bermondsey. Drunk at home. Gorgeous red-brown, slightly hazy with a quickly diminishing off-white head. Bags of caramel in the aroma with touches of molasses, handsoap, milky chocolate and whey. A big glug reveals a wave of sweetness duly followed by an intensely medicinal bitterness. Horehound sweets on the dry finish. Carbonation asserts presence without being too heavy. Medium to full body. Enjoyable barley wine.

9.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Aus der Flasche (bbe 04-2019) im 2018-11 getrunken. Dieses Barley Wine im typischen Englischen Stil ist nur leicht gehopft und kommt mit einer ganz leichten Beerennote (rote Stachelbeere oder rote Johannisbeere) daher. Herrlich hier hat man echten Spaß im Glas. Prost!