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

22oz bottle Bottleshare at HBS. Clear deep caramel brown pour. Thin ring of fine tan bubbles. Nice barleywine Carmel toasted malt aromas. More of a darker toast and smokinesss than a typical BW.

Leathery and dry, pretty textbook American BW

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

At Old Chicago. Bottled February 18th 2019.

Pours pitch black with a small tan head of foam.

Smell is malty, loads of whiskey, fruity, chocolate. So complex.

Taste is strong with the whiskey barrel, dark fruits, chocolate, malty with a slight lean towards the good oxidation.

Full bodied with perfect carbonation.

Wonderful brew!

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

Bottle. (Thanks, Ozzy70!) A- Dark fruits, slightly floral, molasses. A- Black color, black liquid, minimal tan head. T- Molasses, brown sugar, fig, whisky, oak. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, complex finish. O- This was almost Imperial Stout like and drank easily. Full body packed full with flavors that worked seamlessly together. I think you could throw this beer in a variety of different barrels and it would perform well. Really sneaks up on you!

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

Poured from growler (2 days later). Black with tan head. Dark pitted fruit, mild bourbon barrel, light hops.

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

32oz crowler pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports a nice tan head of foam. The aroma offers up chocolate, pine like hops, booze and some roasty malts. The taste delivers a pleasing rich deep blend of chocolate and chocolate blunted pine hops. In the background are soft sweet notes of plums and dates plugging along into the finish. Solid sipper.

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

Complex and heavy, layered yet familiar, with a strong toffee-caramel-molasses English barleywine sweetness offset by mocha and citrus, followed by a firm woody bitterness and wave after wave of boozy bourbon goodness. Dried fruit and brown sugar add depth, while the whiskey creates a necessary warmth on the finish. Unique--not a stout-barleywine hybrid like I expected, but a barleywine with richer, darker malt notes--and gone too quickly from my glass. Yum.

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

Tasting at Oakes' Manor; bottled 02/18/19
Dark brown colour with no head. Aroma of bourbon and booze. Full bodied, sweet, hardly the profile of a Barley Wine, but the malt flavour is strong, very nutty, some bourbon. Very good (American Strong).

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

650ml from ES shared at Josh's and Sunshine's rooftop. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: sweet, bourbon, dark fruits, some tea notes and molasses. Taste: along the same lines, quite boozy, a bit bitter. Overall: pretty good.