Old Foghorn
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.59
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Old Foghorn is brewed based on historic English barleywine methods. It is highly hopped, fermented with a true top-fermenting ale yeast, carbonated by a natural process called "bunging" to produce champagne-like bubbles, and dry-hopped with additional Cascade hops while it ages in our cellars. Made only from “first wort,” the rich first runnings of an all-malt mash, three mashes are required to produce just one barleywine brew. Introduced in 1975, Old Foghorn Ale was the first modern American barleywine sparking renewed interest domestically and in Britain.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Kafe België, Utrecht: Red brown coloured brew with an taste of orange, citrus and caramel. Quite sticky feeling in the mouth.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:40
8/10
Sweet and smooth god I love barleywines.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:31
7.5/10
I've got another bottle that I'll open sometime in the future to see how it's aged
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2024
at 10:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle Fairly enough representing the style. Nothing extraordinary though. Within this extraordinary style. Boozy. Sweetish. It works well
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2023
at 22:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Flavor - 8
Texture - 8
I've had this many times before, just not recently, it seems. Bottled 02/10/2023. Pours a clear deep copper colour and a small dense light beige head with long retention.Aroma's of caramel malt, a bit rye bread, light red fruit. Retronasal there's a bit more fruit, some bitterness, caramel and bready malts. Flavour is light moderate sweet and bitter. Alcohol is warming. Medium bodied. Long finish with increasing bitterness. An American classic. RIP.
Texture - 8
I've had this many times before, just not recently, it seems. Bottled 02/10/2023. Pours a clear deep copper colour and a small dense light beige head with long retention.Aroma's of caramel malt, a bit rye bread, light red fruit. Retronasal there's a bit more fruit, some bitterness, caramel and bready malts. Flavour is light moderate sweet and bitter. Alcohol is warming. Medium bodied. Long finish with increasing bitterness. An American classic. RIP.
Tried
from Bottle
from
De Bierkoning
on 20 Sep 2023
at 19:37
7/10
Tried
on 03 Jun 2023
at 14:43
7/10
8.8% version. Left.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jan 2023
at 15:12
7/10
Pretty decent. Rip Christine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2022
at 20:56
4.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
bottle. medium brown pour with a beige head that has good retention. The aroma features brown sugar, toffee, and wet soil. The taste moderately bitter with c hops ( I guess), also in the flavor I get dark fruits, raisins and dates, and earthy-bitter hops. The palate is a bit lighter than I prefer, but still quite accommodating. Overall: Decent, paired well with some extra toasty cheez-it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2021
at 00:31
7/10
Feels a little aged and oxidized. Otherwise it’s like a light barleywine that you’d find nowadays, but defines the style in terms of the fig flavour. Beer temple ams
Tried
on 09 Jul 2021
at 22:43