Destihl Brewery Antiquity Rye Wine

Antiquity Rye Wine

 

Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Barley Wine - Rye Regular
Score
7.24
ABV: 12.1% IBU: - Ticks: 11
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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500mL bottle, pours a cloudy dark mahogany with a small white head. Aroma brings out earthy rye, caramel, bready malt and a touch of oak. Flavour is complex, with lots of oak, light earthiness and caramel. Wonderful balance between caramel and rye, and there is even some hoppy astringency lingering to balance it out. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2017 at 01:37


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at The Hay Merchant. Pours a clear copper with small off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is strong bourbon, wood, vanilla, toffee, candy sugar. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, light booze, nice sweetness, very good.

Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2016 at 21:09


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle - pours dark brown white head - nose/taste of rye, alcohol, caramel, oak and sherry - medium body

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jun 2016 at 22:39


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 10/22/2015. Pours crystal clear deep ruby red color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of huge caramel, toffee, molasses, dark bread, spicy rye, toasted oak, vanilla, raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, herbal, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/rye malt, fruity yeast, oak, and moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge caramel, toffee, molasses, dark bread, spicy rye, toasted oak, vanilla, raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, herbal, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Moderate herbal hop bitterness and rye/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, molasses, dark bread, spicy rye, toasted oak, vanilla, raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, herbal, pepper, and oak/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/rye malt, fruity yeast, oak, and moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/spice/bitterness balance; with a slight hop/oak astringency on the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitter/spiciness that increases through the glass. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/sticky, and lightly slick balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent rye English barleywine style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/rye malt, fruity yeast, oak, and moderate earthy hop flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the huge ABV. A very enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2016 at 22:17


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Massive barrel sugar tones. Aspirin dryness. Not sure what to enjoy here. Malty raisin brown tone. Rye. Brown malt. Grew on me a little. but too sweet and one-dimensional over. Oak comes through the more I sip at it. OK.

Tried on 30 Sep 2015 at 20:48


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear amber with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a nice rye note with some sweetness and a bit of bitter grain. Flavor has bitter grains with a nice rye note and a bit of toffee.

Tried from Draft on 19 Jun 2014 at 12:41


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap @ Boulder Strong Ale Fest 2014. Pours a fairly clear, dark orange appearance with a thin tan head. Booze is awfully strong in the nose and flavor. A lot of retronasal burn. Caramel and dough. Some spice and a touch of banana / apple / raisins. Plenty of rye. Not my thing.

Tried from Draft on 01 Mar 2014 at 21:18


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

An amber ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet vinous malt with treacle and light floral hops, cork, nice. In mouth, a smooth fruity caramel malt with cork, bourbon barrel, licorice, nice. On tap at Whole Foods Chandler.

Tried from Draft on 28 Dec 2013 at 20:04


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

On tap at Pap pouring up with a slightly hazy amber body that supports a tiny light tan ring of foam. The aroma offers up sweet malts and some molasses and then a touch of pale like malt sweetness mixed with a modest degree of sweet ripe cherries. The taste starts smooth with thick malt sweetened ripe cherry meat and then it picks up malts and molasses nuanced by a pleasing level of a rye bread like twang that is fully tempered and evened out by the malts but sort of enhanced as well by a thin layer of somewhat spicy to pine like hoppiness. Nice well rounded barleywine.

Tried from Draft on 20 Dec 2013 at 18:41


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at GABF 2012 (advertised as Barrel Aged). Pours with a clear bronze hued body with a tan head that fades. Aromas are of brown sugar, raisins, caramel, oak, rye, spice, tannins, vanillin and a lot of alcohol. Flavors are sweet, spicy with peppery notes, lactones, and a well hidden abv. Low carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 01 Oct 2013 at 17:41