Barley Wine
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Series Out of Production|
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7.24
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Our 2012 Barley Wine bridges continents of style, a harmonious creation of Diploma Master Brewer Daniel Carey. He personally chose the hop fields that were harvested for this powerful beast of a brew. Styrian Golding, Willamette, Columbia, and Sterling with bold citrus and resin notes. All perfectly balanced with toasty graham cracker flavors of floor malted barley. Savor this very big beer at 45° F and it will reward you with an open embrace.
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radagast83 (13490) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
DC Share. 12oz bottle. Poured a cloudy brownish color with a small white head. Aroma was light sweet malts, smells a bit oxidized, boozy alcohol. Sweet malts, raisin, some earthy notes.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
At share: pours murky brown with a small head. Aroma is oxidized maltiness and slight booziness. Taste is dry, lightly bitter. Old school and old.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Lots of tobacco, some booze. Bitter root, some tangerine and lots of peel. 10 years old. Bitter tangy and sweet, boozy all at once. Something this was and still is special. Bottle.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This is a 2012 bottle that was not stored chilled. Aroma is raisins caramel spice, and maybe some apricots. Flavor is like knows I might pick up a little chocolate in there too. It is a little more sweet then bitter body is decent. Has a long finish where alcohol is just barely noticeable.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Homer! Pours hazy amber, medium beige head, dissipates to a ring that laces well. Aroma is pleasant, malty, bready, toffee, some sherry notes. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter, a tad oxidized, lingering bitterness gets a bit metallic. Medium body.
JK (8181) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, about 9 months old. Orange, brown color. Sweet with brown sugar. Moderately hopped, and a dry, bitter hop finish. Very smooth palate and it straddles that line between sweet or hoppy barleywine.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2012 Bottle: Crisp clear ruby and beautiful amber and copper tinted body with a thinnish, fast-dying off-white head that leaves large bubbles. Aroma of alcohol, whiskey, grain, oak, hops, citrus and even a bit of hops! Full-bodied; Deep pit fruit sweetness up front with a large brandy and alcohol burn afterwards, all showing some dry oak, vanilla and piney hop finish at the end. Aftertaste shows a nice complexity with the alcohol, cognac and oak flavours dominating. Then some pit fruits hit with raisins and figs the strongest, all with a pungent oak and piney hop finish. Overall, a very strong and deep beer that is still quite rough around the edges, with some good flavours and a nice complexity - just a bit too harsh, still. Great to try, but I wish I would have aged this for another 4 or 5 years, then enjoyed it. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Discount Liqour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 05-September-2012 for US$2.99 sampled at home in Washington on a chilly evening on 07-January-2014. 2012 Bottle // Purchased September 2012 // Sampled January 2014
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aroma is fairly malty with nice light caramel and faintly toasted bread notes. Some cracker and biscuit notes also present. Medium to medium light hop aroma that is fairly citrusy but with a nice complimentary spicy dank note. Pours a nice copper orange with a thin white head that quickly recedes to a thin film on the edges. No lashing and medium sized legs. Flavor is sweet and rich with lots of lighter pale malt complexity. Light caramel, faintly toasted bread and sweet biscuits abound. Medium hop flavors with high bitterness. Hops are mostly grapefruit but with complimentary resin notes and light spicy dank character. This doesn’t have the complexity that some darker barleywines has but it has a nice unique complexity of its own without blurring the lines of a hoppy stout. Surprisingly little fruit esters - this one is clean. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall a really enjoyable lighter barley wine. This might be my favorite lighter barley wine that I have tried. The light malt has a surprisingly nice complexity without getting into a darker malt realm. The hop character compliments the light malt well and doesn’t rate like an afterthought where a bunch of random hops were dumped in to bring up the bitterness.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle pours a clear, caramel amber with some thin, eggshell head. Nose is nice, caramel, oranges, a little grapefruit pith, cracker, brown sugar, a little carrot, lots of fruit, definitely more on the English end of barleywines. Flavor is the same, brown sugar, caramel, tea biscuits, orange, lemon, a little soap, bread, roasted root veg, a little minty. Full, sweet and bitter finish. Very nice. Well balanced.
cheap (9533) reviewed Barley Wine from New Glarus Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Had this at the RB Pittsburgh December 2012 Post Apocalyptic Beer Tasting, Light hazee on a pale looking beer. Smell is quite sweet, something like hardtack candy. Yes, does have some of that barley wine nasty american wannah bee feel to it but lighter when compared to other american BWs. Does have some co2 in there which makes it a little more friendly. Seems to come across more like an old stronger ipa. Not too viscous and I like that in a BW. Does not seem like 125, maybe 8; perhaps they miscalculated?