40 Smaragd
Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
8.13
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This amazing Barley Wine was brewed in August 2013, aged for a year on barrels of Chateau D'Yquemm and then bottled for the 40th anniversary of Bierhuis Kulminator 1974-2014
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Wee glass at kulminator. Pours deep amber, nose is sweet toffee, caramel, vanilla, berries, taste is sweet, fruity, rich, vanilla.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2015
at 13:03
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Kulminator. Dark copper color. Aroma of strong raisin, vanilla and wine. Taste is very rich, with fruity raisin, white grape, vanilla, oak, malt, mild peach. Tastes like a strong desert wine. Long warming finish. Fantastic barley wine.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2015
at 15:09
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draught at Kulminator. Almost clear deep copper liquid with small off-white head. Aroma of raw sugar, toffee, caramel, light booze, port wine, dried fruit and toast. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with notes of toffee, raw sugar and sweet alcohol. Full bodied with low to medium carbonation. Very tasty. Complex and balanced for the age.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2015
at 16:28
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
At Kulminator, Antwerp. Pours hazy copper-ish amber, inexistent froth. Very sweet aromas: toffee, caramel, vanilla, butterscotch, honey. Also smoke, orange marmalade, and a hint of brandy. Silky, mouth-covering, very powerful. Sheer bitterness, but not evident. Very long finish. Surprising beer, to sip slowly.
Tried
on 22 May 2015
at 11:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Warm clear amber colour, white head. Aroma of malts, caramel, lots of raisins, alcohol. Sweet flavour, malts, sherry, booze. Finish booze, raisins, quite alcoholic. Nice, but rather expensive.
(from draught @ Kulminator, Antwerpen)
(from draught @ Kulminator, Antwerpen)
Tried
on 08 Mar 2015
at 10:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at Kulminator. Pours clear and golden orange, small white head. Aroma is dense caramelish. Toasted breadish. Sweet. Solid alcohol burn. Dense caramelish. Toasted malty. Bitter and warming alcohol finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2015
at 10:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Kulminator (Antwerp-Belgium), special! Pours clear Amber-caramel like, small but important off white cap. Nose: ouch boy! Liquid caramel, dates, dry grapes. Mouth: sweet complexity of fruit molasses, frizzy end with bitter events hitting the palate. Lovely dessert beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Mar 2015
at 10:03
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at Kulminator - 40 year anniversary. Pours a reddish copper with little head. Aromas of burnt orange peel, toffee, honey, and Drambuie. Flavours are same - a beer liquore!
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Feb 2015
at 15:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Kulminator. Pours hazy Amber brown with an off white head. Aroma of sugar, caramel, perfume and rich malt. Flavour is heavy sweet. Major butterscotch palate with a super thick mouthfeel like chewing on a big boozy toffee. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Actually surprisingly good for the high ABV though you wouldn’t want to drink more than a small glass.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Dec 2014
at 14:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught Huge, very dense off-white head over foxy-amber beer, clean. Portwine, muscat de Samos, raisins, liqueur, ethanol and fusels. Sweet, muscat grapes, sherry, muscat liqueur, and syrupy sweet. Syrupy feel, despite good carbonation; very heavy MF. Typical for Dirk. Too sweet by half for me, and most remarkable, much less typical Sauternes than the former d’Yquem beer.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2014
at 12:15