Ballantine Beer Ballantine Burton Ale

Ballantine Burton Ale

 

Ballantine Beer in San Antonio, Texas, United States 🇺🇸

  Traditional Beer - Burton Ale Regular
Score
7.25
ABV: 11.3% IBU: 75 Ticks: 15
Ballantine Burton Ale was first brewed in Newark in the 1930s and aged for up to 20 years in American oak. Designated a “Special Brew,” the beer was given as a gift to prestigious friends of the brewery, including the White House. We are excited to share the reincarnation of this rare brew. Like the original, our Burton Ale is sweet, strong, yet balanced by a robust hop character true to the Ballantine name. The oak essence and notes of toasted vanilla make it the perfect holiday treat. Season’s Greetings!
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Firesale for $2!!!!! Whoah, really? wow, well, here’s the rest...
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a mahogany color with a thin white foamy rimmed lacing after the head dissipated.
The smell had some sweet caramel, toffee, oak, vanilla, cherries and toast.
The taste was basically the same with a bit of a nice sticky caramel to oaky aftertaste. Semi-dry oaky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about light to medium on the body with a nice sticky, not cloying, feels really nice on my tongue.
Overall, damn nice English styled barleywine though it does miss the \"tobacco-esque\" portion in the aroma, its still extremely nice and I would love to have again, preferably fresh.

Tried on 15 May 2016 at 12:08


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Aroma is bread, alcohol, light caramel, vanilla and fruit. Appearance is clear amber with minimal sparkle, 1/2 finger-width off-white head with poor retention and mild lacing. Taste is strongly sweet--almost cloyingly so at the outset but settles down over time--caramel, mild late oak. Palate is medium bodied with slightly sticky texture, lively carbonation evident on the lips and tongue with warming sensation in esophagus. Overall, a nice warming winter treat that’s a hair too sweet at the outset--let it sit.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2016 at 18:27


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

new rating: she's still the same; sweet rude ass barleywine - I knew it!old rating: I don’t think I ever tasted a BW from a macro, heheh, let alone on tap. Tap, and it smells a little like volatile perfume, cutting across your olfactory. A slightly darker brew like lighter iced tea. This stuff is true to its American young style; big rude nasty mouth coating in yer face brew, needs a few years or even a decade to age. Yes, a big high alky crude brew and I am surprised about the deScription, it was supposedly brewed in the 1930s for the high society, but they aged it like sherry before distribution. Now they brew it and give it away fresh, HAH. A little spice on the finish flows thru with all the other high alky crass attitudes. And yea, in the deScription it says it should be aged up to 20 years, that’s right, but you’ll have to wait until 2025 to taste it, hehehehh, not me! This stuff is cloyingly fresh typical American barleywine fer sure. Put this away in a bomber and then call me in 5 years my ratebeerian friend.

Tried from Draft on 24 Jan 2016 at 13:44


8.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Sampled on draft at Tapped this beer poured a dark caramel-brown color with orange highlights and a medium sized creamy white head that left great lacing. The aroma was ripe dark and golden fruits and an undertone of brown sugar. The flavor was sweet, tangy and very fruity with notes of cherry, plum and fig coming out, fruit cocktail throughout and a bit of alcohol that worked well. very long finish of sweet fruits and fruit cocktail. Thick body. Wonderful.

Tried from Draft on 04 Jan 2016 at 11:45


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

12 ounce bottle. Pours a deep reddish brown color with a small creamy beige head. Sweet brandy-like aroma has notes of baked bread and toffee. Rich buttery caramel malt flavor has salty notes. Big bittersweet hops in midtaste. Roasted nuts and dark dried fruits in finish. Rich and complex with a warming alcohol prescence. Quite delicious and a good value at $2.00 per bottle.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2015 at 21:51