Bottle. 2011 vintage, enjoyed in 2015. Almost clear, deep brown/ruby liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of raw sugar, raisins, dried fruit, toffee, light booze, port wine and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with notes of raw sugar, toffee, bread, raisins and light alcohol. Full bodied with low to medium carbonation. Nice but maybe a bit old.

Fat på Mikkeller bar, Viktoriagade, Köpenhamn. Smak och doft av karamell, malt, mörk torkad frukt som russin och plommon, brunt socker med toner av citrus. Stor sötma, fina smaker, rund och len, välbalanserad men aningen för söt.

Oct. ’14. A 0.75 l bottle, one of the several from Svijet Piva store, Zagreb shared that evening. This one poured lightly hazy copper-amber body with a small head. Of course, malty aroma, mostly toasted like caramel, toffee, also orange (both malt and hop), other fruits and alcohol. Flavor was accordingly sweet and malty, showed up to be quite complex, too. Caramel, all the other toasted malt and fruit, especially on the sweeter side, then came the secondary flavors like wood or tobacco. Bitter component was much less pronounced, only a bit of herbal bitterness towards the end, but alcohol played its role here, too. Medium bodied, warming and quite sweet finish. It’s an elegant and complex barley wine, but definitely not among the tastiest ones, nor it did knock me down. Its price surely did though.