8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from De Bierkoning, Amsterdam, Netherlands. An amber/brown coloured with a medium off white head on top. Hoppy, malty, caramel, pine taste and aroma. Nice bitterness and still a great beer. Not had this beer for at least a decade and it's less bitter IMO which makes it even easier to drink.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

12 oz bottle. Aroma is citrusy, burnt caramel, floral, old lady perfume, orange. Pours hazy amber with a one+ finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is bittersweet with caramel malt and stale citrusy hop flavors. More like an old school imperial IPA that’s been sitting on the shelf months past its prime than a real barleywine. This is sad, because this is the beer that got me into craft beer almost 30 years ago. Now it’s tasting really substandard.

8.5

@SBWF2025

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours deep brown with no bubbles. Light cherry and fruit leather smell, not too much alcohol. Some tartness in the nose, too. Taste offers some malt, aged as expected. Flavor has turned a little south, but I can pick out some wine, leather upholstery, and again some nice tartness. I'm so used to barrel aged impy stouts, so barleywines are less familiar. They do change more over time, hops might fade, etc. But that just makes each batch a new adventure.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Тяжело, алкогольно и очень горько. Прям как жизнь безработного сценариста. Есть карамели правда немного.

8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bought locally, packaged November 30th 2023.

Pours a clear deep amber, small head of foam, retention not great, lacing minimal.

Smell is very hoppy with pine some citrus, grass, light caramel malt presence.

Taste is very bitter. Pine and grass, light citrus, some malty notes throughout. Finish is as bitter as it gets. Wonderful.

Full bodied, lively carbonation, I always buy this every year.

8

Resinous pine bomb

7

Tasted like caramel flavored Vicks vaporub when I first opened it but as it warms up and airs out it's much better! Hop notes dominate still with a thin caramel finish. Thanks Andy K. !