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

Shared with Josh during our trip to Festival of Dark Arts 2026. Vintage 2015.
Aroma: caramel, hops, moderately sweet, bold.
Taste: along the same lines, a bit dusty, resinous and quite bitter.
Overall: good American bw, but too bitter for me.

Lots of biscuit, dried fruit. Nice different BWSA.

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

22oz bottle 2013 vintage pours out a amber copper topped with sand head. Nose is nice sweet malts some pit fruit brown sugar a little woody and some caramel. Taste is more of the sweet malt caramel toffee pitfruit earthy notes. Solid.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

2013 bottle. And it iza smooth bitter bomb. Thick, cream colored head on a Deep Amber cloudy hue. Fairly well-balanced but no doubt it’s a big barleywine. Aged well

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

2015 sample at the Oakshire Public House. Pours a clear dark amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Partial rings of lacing. Roasted malt, fruit and hops in the nose. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, ripe fruit and earthy hops. The finish is mildly boozy with a malty aftertaste. Above average overall.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Sampled from the tap at the taproom. Pours a hazy deep amber with a tan head that dissipates to the edges slowly. Aroma has lots of bread and sweet grain note with just a touch of toffee underlying. Flavor has sweet grains and bread with a bit of toffee and booze supporting.

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

Bottle 650ml vintage 2014 @ Bakgården Både &, Kristiansand
Pours clear amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, alcohol, orange and hint of marzipan. Taste is heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, caramel, nutty and orange finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

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

Bottle, 22oz, at Både &. Vintage 2014. More or less clear in the glass, light amber in colour and with a small off-white head that lasts. Piney, resiny aroma with citrus zest and a little malty touch. It’s full bodied, quite dry and with a nice carbonation level. A bit sharp on the edges, both on bitterness and alcohol, but sure nice. There’s a little malty touch in the back of the flavor, but piney, citrusy hops dominates, both initially and in the finish. Not bad this one, but a bit unharmonic. 150821

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

2013 vintage 22oz bomber, courtesy riversideAK, thanks Alex, pours with a near clear deep copper to amber body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up smooth plums and brown sugar coated raisins to go along with a light spicy woodiness and some earthiness. The taste has a lot going on as the age is pulling the hops toward the sweetness. I get smooth sweet malts blended into blunted pine and floral hops. To midway it gets a bit boozy and resiny with hops. Into the finish modest levels of spicy woody hops join booze and blunted malt sweetened pine hops to help close out the experience.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Haggen’s Grocery, Burlington; vintage 2013
Dark amber color; creamy head. Very nice aroma, lots of hops, quite sweaty. Good body strength, although the alcohol perception is quite strong; the malt flavor is nice, not the deepest though, with caramel and light fudge touch; the hopping is very resiny, the bitterness is high.
Very good Barleywine.