Olde GnarlyWine
(has 3 batches)
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating|
Score
7.49
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Making a Mondo Ultra Mega Super Premium Barleywine Ale is a little like having a kid. The first part is fun and messy, it takes a while to ferment, and then a whole longer to mature. It is expensive and takes up a lot of space. You worry about how it'll grow up and whether or not you'll still be friends. Eventually it stays out all night and comes home with it's skirt on backwards. You know how it is. Usually we package our ales within 15 days of brewing. This one we aged in tanks for over a month. Why not buy three-? Drink one now, keep one in the 'fridge for a month, and one for another year! Yummy. . .
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: Pours a ruddy red amber with little off white head. Aroma is clean and sharp with a malty sweetness and hints of alcohol. Taste is pleasantly smooth with notes of plum, caramels, malty sweetness, sugars, and just a bit of hops. Not nearly as harsh as some barleywines. Very nicely done!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2006
at 19:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
BW # 5 Bomber poured into 3 brandy glasses. Poured with minimal head. Color is a copperish-brown. Aroma is very strong and very malty (really i expected this from Alesmith). Some fruitiness as well. Taste is butterscotch-alcohol malty. A tiny bit thinner than I like. Alcohol pretty present. A good bitter ending in the taste.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2006
at 00:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled (Thanks MrWalker). A bit hazy amber reddish colour with mediumsized beige head. Aroma is plum, alcohol, candysugar and some fruity hops. Flavour is mainly the same, but with hops coming in more strong and balancing it up. Very wellbalanced and welldone Barley Wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2006
at 16:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
[Bottled, thanks MrWalker!] Clear reddish amber, minimal head.Striking aroma of grapefruit and caramel. Sweet and full bodied with fairly soft mouthfeel. The malt flavour is more prominent than in most American barley wines, but there are a good amount of aromatic hops as well. A very solid and well made barley wine with some personality of its own.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2006
at 05:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Clear brown color with an off-white head. Sweet caramel aroma. Sweet caramel flavor with some mild bitterness.
Tried
on 07 May 2006
at 17:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Orange amber ale with light moka head. Sweet malt aroma with rich pinhey hops, and citrus. Good hops and malts with nice grapefruit in mouth, vanilla notes, some fruity esters. Very nice. May 2005, Capflu’s BW tasting.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2006
at 20:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2012-12-11, at least 3 years old, 9.7% ABV, 7-5-7-3-14=36
Beautiful dark amber, red, mahogany color, with medium sized creamy head. Nice aroma, malt, caramel, fudge, light vanilla. Medium body strength; the mouthfeel is quite smooth; very moderate sweetness, nutty caramel flavor, a bit fruity; the bitterness is higher in the end, with also light oxidization. It’s not aging very well.
2005-12-17, 9.7% ABV, 9-4-8-4-17=42
Hazy dark amber color, thin head, thin bubbles. Aroma of malt, apricot, vanilla, caramel, phenol. Malty, good structure, not too mellow, with a good hoppiness. The final (powerful) is balanced with good quantities of malt, caramel, hop; warming. Very good.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2005
at 11:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fine lacing replaces a large head as the striking visual feature of this murky dark amber Barleywine. Brown sugar and dates play in the aroma that comes easily from the cold surface as this has just been poured. As it warms, a spicy element of nutmeg and cinnamon are added. Sweet yet not cloying and just the right hop bitterness at the very end. Very nicely done and well balanced.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2005
at 16:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
fresh, 2005. Golden brown colour. Aroma mixes candy, earth, caramel. Rich body, with lots of chewy malts, earth and light fruity notes (peach, pear). Balanced, vibrant. 6-3-7-4-15 = 3.5
2007, aged for 7 years. Cloudy amber-brown. A lot of chewy, slightly toasty malts, hints of hop spice, touch of alcohol late. A lot of chewy and some alcohol...dash of chocolate...well it’s not improved with age or anything else. 2 6 6 2 11.
2007, aged for 7 years. Cloudy amber-brown. A lot of chewy, slightly toasty malts, hints of hop spice, touch of alcohol late. A lot of chewy and some alcohol...dash of chocolate...well it’s not improved with age or anything else. 2 6 6 2 11.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2005
at 11:01
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
BOttle Pours a deep ruby amber with very littel light tan head. Sheets of very attractive lacing. Wonderfull aromas of caramel, plums, raisons, vanilla and alcohol. Flavor is more pitted fruit, apples, and lots of hops that come up to the front slow ans strong. Leaves a heavy hop aftertaste but more of a warming deep taste as opposed to the sharp bite of an 2IPA. Rich and heavy feel that slides down with a slight burn on the first sip. Very nice. This bomber is going to do me in.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2005
at 22:32