Small Batch Series No. 3
Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling in San Antonio, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.94
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle thanks Rob. Pours out a burnt orange color topped with a small head. Nose is oak rich malts toffee caramel sweetness some light booze and pit fruit. Taste is more of the heavy sweetness toffee caramel malts a little spice the oak barrel is very present.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with a small frothy white head. The aroma is brown sugar, smoke, wood. Medium mouthfeel with light smoke, caramel, and boozy finish. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This beer pours a cloudy orange color with a medium fizzy off-white head that dissipates steadily to a film. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of malt, caramel and fruit. Medium to full body with flavors of tropical fruits, caramel malt and oaky tannins. The finish is malty with lingering fruity esters in the aftertaste. Interesting beer overall that I initially thought was a strong Saison of some sort. Decent overall.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Waxed bottle from Bu11zeye. Pours hazy orange with a 3 finger creamy off-white or beige head. Aroma is amazing fruit and oak. Full bodied - possibly due to the strong carbonation. Not sparkling - just a lot. Flavor is toffee, light stone fruit, lots of oak/wood, and something like barnyard/leather. Like a light touch of brett. This was bottled 10-8-12. One can only imagine what it will be like in the future. Good stuff indeed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to Tim. Pours dark orange with off white head. Nose and taste of ripe fruit, caramel, toffee, earthy citrus and old citrus peel. Medium body. A touch over carbonated. Might have a slight infection, but still good. Hoppy. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange color with a small longlasting off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy dark fruit aroma. Fruity malty spicy caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy bitter caramel and dark fruit finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a huge off white head. Aroma is bretty, grapefruity and yeasty. Wineous. Smooth fruity, bretty and wineous. Smooth wooden and lingering bretty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 37,5 cl. Pours a cloudy, opaque deep orange with a lacing white head. Some overripe fruit accents, tart grapes. Medium body, again sweet, overripe fruit, some yeast, also these tart grape notes, yeast and a little rubber. Massive late hop kick and quite some booze. Oddly enjoyable somehow. 120713
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375mL capped and waxed bottle. Bottled 10/09/12, Shared by beerbeggar. Pours a much lighter shade than expected. Thick golden color and a thick long lasting head with a lasting lacing. Aroma is my favorite aspect. Smells of fresh fruit - mix of yeast and hops. Sweet and citric mix. Strong but not over the top. Could smell it forever. Flavor is more akin to our average good barley wine. Hops present with a nice yeastiness adding depth. Bitter aftertaste lasts a while. Cool stuff
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from 10/8/12 thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a hazy to murky golden hued body. Massive off-white head for such a big beer. Aromas are vinous, marmalade, dark fruits, leather, rich toffee with mild melanoidins, cotton candy, some dry oak (vanillin and lactone), quite a few esters. Interesting. Flavors are estery, leathery, plums, dark fruits, dates, light marmalade, currant (which I associate with sours), vinous, toasted oak and brown sugar. Very fruit forward. Boozy. Very lively carbonation, medium dry for how big it is (albeit it feels sticky at some moments), warming, low to medium tannin. High carbonation on 10% beer, huge ester, vinous, an rustic funk hints that this might have picked up some critters in the barrel. That said if the bottles stay relatively stable, I could see this actually aging pretty well for about 3-5 years.