Old Guardian Barley Wine (2004-)
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating|
Score
7.66
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Barley wines are traditionally hefty brews, but ours is downright excessive. The huge maltiness of this beer is only tamed by an equally prodigious addition of hops, creating a rich, slightly sweet, caramel-hued ale infused with assertive bitterness and bright hop notes, all culminating in a pleasing dryness. While it will evolve into an even more glorious brew with age, this beer's delicious onslaught of flavors will seriously challenge your ability to wait any longer to drink it.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sticky mouth, very hoppy, lots of grapefruits and apples. Very full body. Nice.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2017
at 07:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 2007 brown bomber poured into a snifter. Clear dark Amber with small white head. Aroma is caramel malt, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt and a little alcohol.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2017
at 12:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap Dark amber colour with no head.Aroma of dried fruits figs and plums rich malty and nots of caramel and wood,nice smooth warming mouthfeels with good sweet taste and long smooth finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Dec 2016
at 14:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
650ml Bottle - Dark amber/light copper in colour. Pine, toffee, raisins and sultanas in the aroma. Leather, peach, pine, dried apricot, sultanas, caramel and raisins all feature in the rich and warming taste. This vintage is from 2012 yet is still fairly fruity and hoppy for a beer of this age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2016
at 15:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Punertavanruskea, kuparinen olut rusehtavalla, pitkään säilyvällä puolen sentin vaahtokerroksella, joka jättää hieman pitsiä jälkeensä. Tuoksussa toisaalta vahvaa makeaa karamellisuutta ja toisaalta vahvaa humalan tuoksua sisältäen havuisuutta ja hedelmää. Mielenkiintoinen ja houkutteleva tuoksu. Maku jatkaa samoilla linjoilla ollen alkuvaiheessa vahvasti karamellisen makean maltainen. Hetken päästä karamellisuus häipyy ja vahvasti humalan mukanaan tuoma hedelmäisyys, greippisyys sekä havuisuus ja katkeruus nostavat päätään. Loppupuoleltaan varsin kuiva ja ruohoinen. Lopputuloksena suu on hieman tahmea mutta kurkussa tuntuu kiva humalan katkeruus. Mainio yhdistelmä Barley Wineä ja Double IPAa. Toimii.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2016
at 13:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle at Josh. Vintage 2013. Pale copper with a white head. Aroma is candied citruses. Taste is bitter, candied citruses, quite sweet. Candied citruses bitterness aftertaste. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2016
at 22:20
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Craft Beer Base, Osaka. Pours nice deeper mahogany, smooth carbonation and long lasting head. Aroma is as sweet as freshly cooked strawberry jam. Caramelized sugar and berry sweetness. Taste is also full of caramel flavours, strong malty backbone, tasting as I expect a good barley wine to taste. Yet, it has some hoppy feel to it at the end, Stone is being Stone and has hopped this massively. Long bitter linger is going to remind me this lunch-time half-pint probably for quite a long.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2016
at 22:15
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at CBC 2016 - second day. Deep caramel pour with a thin beige head. Tons of hops in this barley wine, making it quite delicious. Notes of caramel, grapefruit, pine resin.
Tried
on 23 May 2016
at 06:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2016 release bottle. Great barley wine - well balance malt and hops with some uniqueness. Very good
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2016
at 21:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle/Fest. A- Pine, fish pond. A- Copper color, clear liquid, off white head. T- Seaweed, pine, spruce. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- Pretty poor actually. A lot of bitterness but not aggressive and a weird stale water and seaweed aspect. Definitely a Stone beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2016
at 21:16