100 Barrel Series #04 - Barleywine
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.84
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
bottle at home tasting ... hazy amber ... thin white head ... soft orange nose ... juicy fruits ... sweet fruits ... light toffee malt.nice
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 10.3%. Very weak aroma for ABV, spicy tea? Hazy golden colour, very small white head. OK flavourful, teaish bonbon flavour. Some bitterness, slightly rough. Not good enough for this ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Encore edition - aged 1 year. Pours amber into a snifter. Off-white head quickly recedes to skim surface. Caramel aromas. Sweet caramel from front-to-back and slightly thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Pours a slightly cloudy amber golden with a yellowish head. Fresh and fruity nose - some chewing gum. Rather full-bodied, surprisingly salty with some accents of overripe fruit. A touch of sherry and a rather bitter finish. Not the world’s most sophisticated Barley Wine. 180807
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy yellow with almost no head. Slight sweet malty aroma. Sweetish flavour, very wellhidden alcohol. Grainy note, slight pineneedle flavour. Warming finish. Not bad but not really great either.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Copper color; poor head. Aroma of malt (light), ruhm, buttery. Much thinner than expected, some toffee taste, too much alcohol, quite strong bitterness. More Strong Ale and Strong Lager than Barley Wine. Disappointed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled, thanks jjpm74! Clear deep golden. Tangerine aroma. Sweet and juicy, surprisingly slim for it’s high abv. Fruity and rounded with some syrup to with the citric hops. A well balanced cross of US and English style barley wines.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On draught at Redbones, 10/23/2005. Served a glassy, copper-to-deep-yellow color with a rapidly receding white head and no lacing. Smells quite hoppy still, lots of citrus and resin with a strong note of alcohol, some strong esters and lots of thickly packed in caramel malt. Pretty unadventurous, yet well-done aroma. Flavor is a slap in the face with bitter, resinous hops, thick, nearly syrupy caramel malt and alcohol. Warming, estery alcohols burn and fight all the way down, while the hops make me cringe on the end. Light fruitiness adds some complexity, but this stuff is pretty well an uncomplex shot of monstrous proportions of yeast, sugars and hops bittering. Good mouthfeel, low carbonation, not quite syrupy. Has a tinge of sourness on the end, and coming stronger as it warms. May just have been the alcohol interplay with the malt, but it grew more and more until it was quite unpleasant drinking by the end. Almost a bready/sourdough flavor. Sweet, monotonous caramel followed by drying, bready sourdough and alcohol, with a huge dose of bitter, resinous (but not flavorful) hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Easily the best beer that I’ve had from Harpoon. Pretty much a good average American Style Barleywine. Cloudy gold color, small head. Malt and hop aroma that deliver what you expect. Some malt, a bit of citrus from the hops, somewhat dry palate. Alcohol fairly well hidden. No shocks, no surprises, not bad really.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
[draught] Quite light in color for a barleywine - a golden straw color with a medium ring of white lacing - aroma of light hops, maple (the syrup and the wood), and some light fruits that are carried to the flavor, like apples, white grapes - some honey and syrup, but this is not overly sweet - some dessert wine qualities, like a riesling in some ways - quite delicate for an american barleywine - a refreshing change.