Hell on Wood
DuClaw Brewing Company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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This year, we aged a limited quantity of our award winning (Brewer’s Association of Maryland Governor’s Cup gold medal winner in 2006, 2007 and 2008)…
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft from hop shine. Poured amber. Heavy oaky woody notes. Caramel. Burn. Pretty nice
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 01:42
7/10
It's super super barleywine.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:36
7/10
Hazy amber body small foamy off white head. Toffee bourbon caramel aroma. Toffee caramel oak flavor. Full body moderately low carbonation. 7/3/7/3/15 3.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2020
at 21:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks Stas. 13.1%. Hazy orange. Malt, caramel, wood, vanilla, alcohol, some fruitiness, sweet and a bit umami, quite boozy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2019
at 12:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the Ginger Man, pours a hazy dark amber with a small beige head. Nose is very harsh, with lots of harsh bourbon notes, loads of alcohol and caramel. Flavour is harsh but well-calibrated, with lots of bourbon barrels, alcohol and caramel. Intense, boozy and harsh, but cohesive nonetheless. Really nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2018
at 08:00
7/10
Hazy amb bod sml wht head. Floral herbal arma. Floral herbal earthy flav. Full bod mod carb. 7/3/7/4/15 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2018
at 00:48
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Caramel in color with a light tan head. Sweet caramel malt, toast, a bit of chocolate, some dark fruits, oak, caramelized brown sugar, light vanilla. Full, slick body. A bit bitter and boozy in the finish. Complex and enjoyable.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2018
at 01:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Bruisin’ Ales. Pours copper with a transient beige head. Aroma is bourbon and brown sugar. Med + body. Flavor is treacle, bourbon, a little smoke, a little wood, a little pale stone fruit and a little heat. The heat is noticeable but rather pleasing. Very good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2017
at 14:56
2/10
Tried
on 22 Jun 2017
at 20:09
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
From a cheap bottle in market district this stuff pours with a thick rich visual darker pale appeal. Aroma of volatile malt. Way too much flat viscous high alky effects causing dizzy affects. Almost gets cloying, but is not. WOoooOW on this one. Hell, yes, wood can’t find. Some whisky flavors haunting the back of my palate but never get slimed. Not sure if aging would make this like a REAL old country barley wine. I don’t think it could ever be trained to be civil & sweet. Another wannah bee but at least its cheap, and a good bzzzzzzzzzzzzz. In the end its rude and in yer face, ballz all the way to the wooden wallz, I guess. Drink 2 and get shit canned. Domestic barley wine fer sher. We ned to make 2 categories of barley wine; European & other countries or more likely euro and american barleywine. How about this for 2 categoris of BW; real and wannah beeeezzzz? Fuckin’ hell.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2017
at 13:08