Barleywine (Mary)
Brouwerij De Prael in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.86
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A barley wine is a sweet and heavy beer, usually with fruity characteristics. This impressive beer is brewed with oranges, which give it its full, fruity character, and is rounded off with a light hint of coriander.
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c0axial (8164) ticked Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 7 years ago
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Gurthnar (14451) reviewed Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Beermalade. Med-high bitterness, alcohol hidden well. The special ingredients are very light, but perceivable, which befits a barley wine from this area. Feels balanced, easy drinking. Very good.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
De Prael's attempt at English style barleywine, spiced with orange peel and coriander - which seems a bit out of place and very 'Belgian' in a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon style like this. Regular but thinnish, immediately opening and eventually dissipating, off-white, lightly lacing head over an initially near-clear but later equally hazy, warm orange-hued amber coloured beer. Bit unusual aroma of persimmon, tamarillo, cookie dough, clearly noticeable (dried) orange peel indeed, cooked carrots, whisky, vague coriander, moist cigarette tobacco, honey, cloves, butterscotch, pear, subtle background hint of chicken stock cubes (possibly the first sign of oxidation) as well as a whiff of DMTS (melting rubber). Sweetish and sourish onset with mild spicy notes, persimmon again, apricot and ripe pear with a cherry tomato-like edge, soft carbo, full and supple, slightly resinous mouthfeel but perhaps not vinous enough for a modern barleywine. Butterscotch candy- and dry cookie-like malt sweet body with softly toasted bitterish edges; some yeasty spiciness (phenols) in the end reinforced by (actual) orange peel spiciness in a somewhat 'refreshing' way, whereas the coriander remains subtle enough not to disturb me too much. Some earthy yeastiness lingers amidst the malt sweetness, heated by a warming glow of whisky-ish alcohol which adds more bitterness than the citrus peel and the slightly spicy hop note at the back, becoming a bit wry in the end. Interesting beer, enjoyable, but not entirely the typically sweet and spicy-honeyish, vinous profile I expect from an English style barleywine - if anything, this has the yeasty, malty and effectively spiced (coriander!) profile of a 'Belgian style barleywine', which is nowhere recognized as a style in its own right anymore these days, but can be identified with things like Stille Nacht and Bush Ambrée. Especially the latter bears notable resemblances with this beer, maybe the old Dubuisson range has acted as a source of inspiration here?
MusingAnorak (11819) ticked Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 8 years ago
theplanck (7492) reviewed Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Great English barleywine. Not at all bitter. But strong and malty but well balanced. Nothing like an american version. De prael Amsterdam
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at De Prael. Hazy amber with a small head. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, some yeast and malt. The same in the taste. The body was medium and the finish with warming alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tight, off white fluffy head stayed on a hazy, highly carbonated, copper coloured body. Sweet malt, jam & cookies aroma. Medium to full bodied. Sticky syrup feel on the palate. Lots of jam, over ripe fruit, stone fruit, orange & a citrus back.
Robin Svensson (13124) ticked Barleywine (Mary) from Brouwerij De Prael 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Uit fles, thuis. Bijna geen schuim, verdwijnt ook. Kleur oranje. Weinig aroma. Smaak zoetig, wel goed. Maar als ik een bier drink met dit hoge percentage ga ik liever voor andere. Houdt niet over.