8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle "2014" @ Mikkeller Aarhus, 16.5%. Clear dark amber/brown with small tan head. Aroma is malt, dark fruit, caramel, toasted, wood, oak and vanilla. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, oak, wood, notes of alcohol, warming, vanilla, sugar, raisin, little plume, little ripe fruit, sweet and a little bitter.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle @ Mikkeller, Aarhus. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich dried fruits, caramel, wood, wine, malt, hops and has a nice sweet balanced finish.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared at Koelschip, Copenhagen - dark copper Amber pour with small white head. Aroma and taste is sweet malty with notes of caramel, some treacle, dark dried fruit, lovely boozy warming bear hug in the finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

7.8

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

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruit, alcohol,, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, caramel, over ripe fruits, and malt sauce, leading to a dry finsh.

10

Thanks Trevor. Proper ace bw.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden pale orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak woody wine and dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty spicy woody caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has sweetish malty spicy woody wine and dark fruit finish.

7.5

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

37.5cl bottle shared courtesy of and shared with 77ships. Thin white head. Clear amber pour. A decent barley wine

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

(Draught at Kulminator, Antwerpen, 15 Oct 2015) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity, vinous nose with orange peel, caramel, resin and oak wood. Malty, fruity, vinous taste with notes of orange peel, dried apricots, resin, oak wood, caramel, marzipan, nuts and a generous citric, resiny bitterness in a warming, vinous finish with a good alcohol glow. Full body, quite sweet. Strong and warming with lots of alcohol, still with a generous, fresh hop character. Very nice.

8.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Mikkeller barley wine celebrating the 40 years of existence of - still - Belgium’s most prominent beer pub. Draught at Kulminator of course, in a sherry snifter. Off-white, medium thick, regular and surprisingly stable, lightly lacing head on top of a deep, pure, clear amber coloured beer with chestnut brownish hue and refined, almost lambrusco-like fizz. Incredibly rich bouquet of all kinds of wonderful things, the kind of aroma a true beer afficionado can sniff for hours: candied orange, oxidized sherry, honey, hazelnut oil, black peppercorns, vanilla, oaky tannins, dried banana, whisky, calvados, old port wine, fermenting peaches. Very sweet onset but in a refined, candied kind of way, candi sugar and marmelade, lovely oily and vinous mouthfeel gliding smoothly over the tongue with a subtle sparkling, caramelly and honeyish malt sweetness underneath the candied sweetness, evolving into a rich and downright beautiful finish of lingering candied sweetness, honeyish malts, lightly peppery hops, a lot of drying ’woodiness’ and peppery, warming, liqueurish and slightly whisky-like alcohol only burning a bit in the throat after swallowing, but otherwise well in place. A barley wine of great finesse with a complex texture and amazingly addictive bouquet, absolutely worthy of this dignified institution of Belgian beer culture.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Kulminator. Copper with a small head. A potent one with dried fruit, well hidden alcohol and malt. A beer to sip.