Anniversary Ale
Whitewall Brewing Company in Marysville, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.37
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750ml bottle from Tavour. Nose is toffee, toffee, and a hint of vanilla. Clear rusty red with a big heavy lacing rusty tan head. Flavor is moderately sweet toffee, extremely smooth covering the ABV completely with the tiniest hint of bitter in the finish. Nice barleywine!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750 mL bottle Pours a dark reddish brown with light head head. Aroma of orangey toffee, brown sugar, sweet raisins, and caramel malts. Sweet syrupy flavors follow same with a bit of alcohol warm. Lots of sweet boozy caramel. Nice - work cellaring.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Anniversary Ale from Whitewall Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Lots of caramel and some oak, clear dark copper with a small white head. Dark caramel, light toffee and a nice light sweetness, very English and very nice,
Oakes (33493) reviewed Anniversary Ale from Whitewall Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Amber-brown colour, without much in the way of a head. The aroma is has pecan, a little bit of toffee, alcohol. Sweet, has a nice alcohol burn late, but more important there’s some date, fig, good balance, and the alcohol sort of dries it out late. Decent barley wine, nice balance if a strong brew, a little bit rough and ready.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Anniversary Ale from Whitewall Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750mL bottle, pours a dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out caramel malt, light toffee and dark fruits. Flavour is thick, with caramel malts, light toffee, a touch of vanilla, and dark fruits. Very thick palate, with a caramel, dark fruity finish. Very sweet, but it works.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown with a tan head. Very sweet. Malt forward, ripe fruit, molasses, toasted, light wood, nutty underneath. Full, slick body. Finish is sweet booze. Quite a nice BABW.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
750mL capped and waxed bottle shared by Andrew. We had this at the end of a small (well, not to small) barleywine tasting that included an Old Crusty vertical. This may have been my favorite of the barleywines. A difficult feat to pull off for a new, small brewery. This is a darker barleywine. Dark brown rusted copper color, cannot see through it. I have been drinking this beer for close to 6 hours. In the middle I took a nap and went to Stumbling Monk to play MtG will drinking some sour gueze on tap. It avoids big mistakes. Its not astringent, not at all. Despite the high abv, its not boozy. Its also not too sweet or hoppy. Definitely not an Americanized hop barleywine. So, just making a beer that avoids the aforementioned problems is great. In addition, it has a defining characteristic that is lovely. There is this charred, burnt mat character that is real fun. A little sweet brown malts, light raisin bread. Dare is say, its a balanced barleywine and one I would never guess was 12.5%. Thanks Andrew and this makes me want to seek out other Whitewall beers.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750 ml waxed bottle poured. Anniversary already? Crazy. Pours a reddish, bronze color with a thin, fading head. Sweet fruit, paired with soft malt aroma. Maybe grape, and raisin flavor, and is slightly boozy, but not enough to complain at 12.5%. Red grape to be exact. Bran, raisin, dusty malt, dark fruit finish. Sweet linger. Overall pretty good, and quite a memorable one to end a night of barley wine.