6.4

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Merry Christmas to beer drinkers everywhere. A small bottle, last of a three bottle selection purchased online from the brewery, the previous two rated back in the Ratebeer days. Aroma: malt, raisins, port. Appearance: opaque mulligatawny soup, no head to speak of. Palate: creamy on the tongue, boozy hit at the back of the mouth, negligible carbonation; finish is warming, long and lingering, alcoholic strength is subtle. Taste: heavily sweet with malt, rock candy, and some butter. A nice winter warmer, great mouthfeel, but far too sweet. After eleven years of cellaring I would have expected something a little more sophisticated.

4.1

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 18

A massive, fizzy light tan head on an unfiltered toffee coloured body. The nose features raisins, apricots, toffee and a serious touch of acidity. The taste profile features deep toffee and caramel, which just keeps growing through the taste experience. superior. Well blended undertastes include raisins, some citrus hops, grapes and a nice hint of acidity. Smooth, rich, well integrated and not too sweet or cloying.

8

Loads.of malt. Subtle dried fruit. Bready. Rich.

8.5

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

Bottle shared with Nari and Gabor Gábor. Deep copper pour, off-white head. Nose is booze, caramel, biscuity bready malts, toffee and dried fruits. Great combination with a lovely intensity. Taste is rather sweet, but definitely not overhwlming; it shows mainly caramel, toffee and dried fruits with some honey and booze. Closes with a long lasting, wamingly sweet finish, has a full body with a soft carbonation. I've always preferred English style bws over the hoppier American iterations and this is a prime example of the style.

8

Loads of malt sweetness. It tastes like a brewery smells. Touch of milk chocolate and raisin.

8

Malt. Raisins. Toffee. Rich. Sweet.

6.9

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

2004 bottle.
pours a murky reddish brown color. Aroma is super malty, but also very bready. Huge aromas of ripe fruit, and fruit cake. As soon as it hits your tongue, you realize is VERY thick, and so sweet, to the point where it coats your mouth, and its quite cloying. THe flavour is again quite malty ,and very fruit cake like. The aftertaste is boozy, and tastes alot like cheap sherry. A nice beer, but not a barley wine i really enjoyed. Its extremely well made, and you can tell it’s super high quality, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

- Year 2011- This one must not have been cellared right when I bought it. It was full of particles in the bottom and floaties. However, it did taste ok. It did not have very much carbanation. The aroma was almost like wine. The taste was sweet with very c

6

2001 bottle. Way too much like soy sauce. Adjusted the rating to average the two.