Tap @ In De Wildeman. Clear amber color. Firm off white head. Aroma’s: firm resinous hoppiness, some malty sweetness. Retronasal: resin, herbal, bitter & sweet. Flavor is bitter-sweet. Fairly strong alcohol feel. Medium bodied. Finishes with a herbal bitterness. Nice!

Pours hazy copper with a fading head.Nose shows sweet malt with caramel and golden syrup notes. Some pine and citrus.Flavours are a mix of sweet clean malt and soft spicy hops as flavours. Some booze.

Bottle. Pours a clear dark golden pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Sweetish malty caramel hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter caramel finish.

Bottle @ home. Clear dark orange color, average to medium sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some sweetness, quite some caramel, a slight touch of plants, young hops, some alcohol in the finish. Slightly warming alcohol mouthfeel, medium body, suitable carbonation.

Klares bernsteinfarbenes Bier mit einer fingerbreiten leicht beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch kräftig malzig, überreife Früchte, sehr hopfig, alkoholisch, harzig. Geschmack nach sehr reifen Früchten, Dörrobst, hopfig, dezent bitter, leicht alkoholisch.

Bottle at Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malt, light alcohol. The flavour is moderate to strong sweet, light bitter, with a rich sweet malt, toffee caramel, alcohol bitter palate and a sligjtly lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. It’s 10.3% but the alcohol sits nicely in the background with little alcohol burn. One of the best barley wines I’ve had.

Bottle. SLightly hazy amber/orange with medium tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, hop, oak, little pine and a little grapefruit. Flavour is maly, caramel, toasted, quite bitter, oak, wood, hop, little grapefruit and a little candy.

Collaboration brew, a barley wine with regular, moussy, off-white, fairly stable head and deep coppery amber colour, clear with vivid sparkling. Strong and sweet, unusual but pleasantly perfumey bouquet of marmelade, (strong) candied cherries, strawberry ice cream, orange liqueur, honey, pancakes, apple sauce, gingerbread, madera, liquorice, vanilla, something rather undisturbingly chemical (nail polish) and a remarkable presence of spring water-like minerals. Sweet onset but not cloying, honeyish, lots of candied fruit (especially orange) with a pleasantly bitter, spicy accent and soft but tingling carbonation; smooth caramelly and nutty malts in the middle, with increasing spicy and peppery, ’deep’ and prolonged hop bitterness towards the end (perhaps a bit much for a barley wine claiming to be English in style - this is more an American-style barley wine); apart from the hops and a strongly persisting caramelly malt character, the finish also reveals a great deal of booze, almost cognac- or whisky-like and almost becoming astringent. Slow sipper, that much is clear, with sufficient complexity and personality; the aroma is a bit weird, but pleasant enough if you’re into this style. I’ll be slowly enjoying this from a wine glass as a nightcap. And that’s what barley wines are for.

Bottle @ Solar Eclipse Hung Over. Shared with Hallinghansen. Pours copper amber with a creamy white head. Strong malty caramel, bread and a citrus bitter hoppy finish. Really bitter. Very Very well brewed!