Rackhouse - Paragon 2018
Lervig in Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway 🇳🇴
Barley Wine - Barley Series Out of Production|
Score
8.07
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Our Barley Wine is the most special beer we make, being produced only once every year. It’s a blend of different bourbon barrel-aged vintages that have spent more than a year in wood. We blend the different barrels, and add a bit of freshly brewed Barley Wine to obtain the best possible version.
This year, the Barley Wine was brewed using a double-boil technique in which we evaporate the beer to a high concentration of sugar, add water back to the wort, and then boil it down again to increase Maillard reaction processes and build up some intense caramelization. We went easy on the hops to allow the malt and bourbon characteristics inherited from the barrels to be the champions of this beer.
The aromas and flavours are intense, and should be enjoyed slowly by serving at room temperature to allow even more layered nuances to shine through and add to the
beautiful complexity of this beer. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do.
INGREDIENTS
Malts: Munich, Caramel, chocolate
Hops: Styrian Goldings
Yeast: Ale
BEST BEFORE
120 months, 10 years
(perfect for cellaring)
APPEARENCE
Dark red / brown. Tan head with copper laces.
AROMA
Dried fruits (figs, prune, raisins), caramel, oak, bourbon, molasses, vanilla,
coconut and more.
FLAVOUR
Similar to aroma. Caramel, dark fruits, sweet oak and bourbon.
BODY
Intense but not overly, powerful and sweet but not cloying. Balanced.
This year, the Barley Wine was brewed using a double-boil technique in which we evaporate the beer to a high concentration of sugar, add water back to the wort, and then boil it down again to increase Maillard reaction processes and build up some intense caramelization. We went easy on the hops to allow the malt and bourbon characteristics inherited from the barrels to be the champions of this beer.
The aromas and flavours are intense, and should be enjoyed slowly by serving at room temperature to allow even more layered nuances to shine through and add to the
beautiful complexity of this beer. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do.
INGREDIENTS
Malts: Munich, Caramel, chocolate
Hops: Styrian Goldings
Yeast: Ale
BEST BEFORE
120 months, 10 years
(perfect for cellaring)
APPEARENCE
Dark red / brown. Tan head with copper laces.
AROMA
Dried fruits (figs, prune, raisins), caramel, oak, bourbon, molasses, vanilla,
coconut and more.
FLAVOUR
Similar to aroma. Caramel, dark fruits, sweet oak and bourbon.
BODY
Intense but not overly, powerful and sweet but not cloying. Balanced.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Shared with my family. Very similar to the anniversary barley wine, maybe a tad more vanilla and bourbon. In the anniversary barley wine there is more bourbon, while the paragon is sweeter and boasts way more vanilla, both in aroma and in flavour. Both are excellent, personally I would probably go for bourbon over sweetness, but the sweet tooths in my family preferred this one.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2019
at 21:12
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Mikkeller Berlin, pours a deep dark mahogany with a tiny bubbly tan head. Aroma is decadent as hell, with lots of bourbon, caramel, toffee and brown sugar. Flavour is rich as hell, with intense molasses, caramelized brown sugar, bourbon, and toffee. So much molasses, finishing on bourbon and burnt sugar. Beauty.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2019
at 17:58
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bourbon, vanilla, dried fruit, soft mouldy wood, macerated sour cherries, milk chocolate. Solid stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2019
at 22:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Lervig Paragon BarleyWine / WheatWine / RyeWine 748415
Lukt: Syrlige frukter, vinøst. Utseende: Mørk brun. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt dekkende skum, heng. Smak: Syrlige frukter, vinøst. Hvor: Melkebaren, Sandnes. Medium: Tapp@100ml@Planke, ABV@13,5%, Når@18.12.2019.
Lukt: Syrlige frukter, vinøst. Utseende: Mørk brun. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt dekkende skum, heng. Smak: Syrlige frukter, vinøst. Hvor: Melkebaren, Sandnes. Medium: Tapp@100ml@Planke, ABV@13,5%, Når@18.12.2019.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Dec 2019
at 01:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2018 bottle. Clear brown color with tan head. Aroma is strawberries, caramel, vanilla, wood. Taste is wood, caramel, a bit mystically dark, burned caramel, chocolate. Thick oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Good Barleywine!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2019
at 20:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottke thanks to Mark! It pours hazy darkest brown with a bubbly yellow - tan head. The aroma is sweet, oily, earthy, vanilla, bourbon biscuit, brownie, earthy, malt loaf and some caramel. The taste is slick, oily, bitter - sweet, dry, malt - loaf, vanilla sugar, toasty coconut, bourbon, toasted cacao, touch of spice, dried fruits and buttered fruit cake with a slick and warming finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth feel. Rich and unctuous. Flavourful.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2019
at 13:39
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep brown, nose is raisin, wood, vanilla, caramel, fruity, taste is sweet, chewy, caramel, vanilla, little hot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2019
at 10:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle 330ml. @ [ El Catador Tasting ] - Odense - MrOrla House.
[ As Lervig Paragon (Pink Wax) ].
ABV: 13.5%. Clear dark brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bread, dark malt, roasted, sweet malt, tobacco, honey - raisin, dried fruit, vanilla, alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, raisin, figs, dark malt, sweet malt, alcohol - bourbon, bread. Body is medium - medium full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20191026]
8-4-8-4-17
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2019
at 11:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Black with a small light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee and dark fruits. Sweet with a good chocolate, alc and dark fruits end.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2019
at 23:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
13th November 2019
Almost clear deep brown beer, tidy tan head. For the hefty 13.5% the palate is pretty airy. It’s also mildly dry and with reasonable fine carbonation. Unsurprisingly rich malts but surprisingly not huge amounts of depth. A touch of soft malt cream. Whisper of savoury malts, vaguely marmite but very mellow. The barrelling seems more whiskey than bourbon. Fruity whiskey with an unusual touch of Coca Cola. Finishes with a little tingling spice. Pretty drinkable but a fairly straight up ba barleywine. Over priced by far but goes down easy.
Almost clear deep brown beer, tidy tan head. For the hefty 13.5% the palate is pretty airy. It’s also mildly dry and with reasonable fine carbonation. Unsurprisingly rich malts but surprisingly not huge amounts of depth. A touch of soft malt cream. Whisper of savoury malts, vaguely marmite but very mellow. The barrelling seems more whiskey than bourbon. Fruity whiskey with an unusual touch of Coca Cola. Finishes with a little tingling spice. Pretty drinkable but a fairly straight up ba barleywine. Over priced by far but goes down easy.
Tried
on 13 Nov 2019
at 22:54