Grand Barley Wine
Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.56
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Tasting at Josh’s, bottled Nov 2007, 8 years old
Dark mahogany color, clean, small head. The expected aroma of a Barley Wine, sweet, caramel, light oxidation. Sweet, some vanilla caramel, not thick, but low character, definitively too old, although it’s not really too oxidized.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Vintage ?? - Dark sugars, boozy. Deep dark brown with a nice beige head. Sweet brown sugars, raisin and light plum. Light and nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle courtesy of mgermani: Poured a deep copper/burgundy color ale with an average foamy head with OK retention and some minimal lacing. Aroma consists of medium sweet malt with some subtle bitter hops. Taste is a nice mix between some medium sweet malt with some slightly bitter hops also thrown in there. I can’t say I cared for the mix between the variety of hops used and the malt based. Medium body with average carbonation but no discernable alcohol. I guess this is Ok but I have tasted better beer form this brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 12%. Refreshing grassy hop aroma. Clear dark brown colour, some red. Very small tan head. Sweet teaish flavour, quite caramelly. Rather thin mouthfeel considering ABV. Nice enough, but I guess I expected more from a beer of this strength.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Berry (cherry), sirup and honey aroma. Red brown, creamy brown head. Chocolate, roast and berry flavours. Relatively light body for the strength - fairly dangerous - the doppelbock of baleywines.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Burgundy-brown colour. Can I give bonus appearance for mispelling "bierre" on the label and getting away with it? Rich nose of singed cherries, demerara, Havana Club 7yo, dark chocolate and pho broth. Mellow flavour melds toffee, lots of alcohol and some dark fruit notes, but nothing so bright as in the nose. Body is a bit thin for the size, with a slickness that gets more pronounced as it warms...an unpleasant reminder of the bad part of Tibetan butter tea. OK, but most barley wines hit higher high notes than any this has to offer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The most mellow barleywine I have ever had. That being said, also one of the more underflavored as well. Deep brown, small tan head. Brown sugar malt nose. Sweet syrupy malt profile, well masked alcohol, hints of dark fruit. Very light finishing hops. Nothnig wrong with this, just not exciting. I drink quickly and get buzzed quickly, I should have gotten buzzed from this, but I didn’t, so I seriously doubt this is anywhere near 12%