2009 Crew Brews: Big Slick
Midnight Sun Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.32
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Jeff. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. A big sweet malty pine nose. Awesome. Huge sweet malts, toffee, caramel, oxidation, awesome.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared by someone at freetail release. Pours near clear amber brown with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma is sweet with caramel, toffee and bread, bit of grain. Flavor is a bit more hoppy but still sweet with toffee and bread.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
October ‘09 O-Town Throwdown, cheers to juiceisloose. Pours amber, beige head. Aroma is malty, caramel, hint sof bitterness, light fruits. Flavor, malty, caramel, barley, some hops, grainy / malty mouthfeel, ends with some bitterness and fruits. Overall palate has a pronounced hop bitter profile.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Ruby-amber beer with a dark cream colored head. Rich malt and toffee aroma with grapefruit and light pine. Grapefruit and light pine flavor with light berry notes and caramel. Medium-plus bodied. Good bitterness. Pine, grapefruit, earth, and caramel lingers. Alcohol noticeable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Americanbrew. Pours with a large, tan head over a ruby colored body. Aroma has lots of hops, caramel, toffee, dark fruits and raisins. Taste is big, boozy, bitter, a bit of fusel, and dark fruits. Big mouthfeel, and thick with medium carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
I’ve been looking forward to trying this since I first heard about it from tpd975. Thanks for sharing this yummy beast. It poured clear copper with amber core and thin tan head. The aroma has a smooth full pine, grapefruit and resiny bitter hoppy goodness with a sense of a sweet malty base. The taste is full on hoppy pine bitterness then moving into resiny hop notes. By midway a modest level of thick sweet maltiness comes to the surface to create a brief safe haven from the persistent pestilent hops. Very tasty hop heavy barleywine.