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 clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweetish malty dark fruit flavor, also lots of hops in the flavor. Sweetish malty fruity piney hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2008
at 09:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear deep red with large beige head. Hoppy aroma with caramel, ripe fruits and pine notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with grapefruit, caramel, pine and malty notes. Ends solid bitter.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2008
at 14:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours caramel brown with minimal light tan head. Aromas of brown sugar, caramel, and slight hops. Sweet malty flavor with hints of grapefruit. Not as hoppy as a lot of American barley wines, more true to the style. Full body with minimal carbonation and a thick, syrupy, stick mouthfeel. A decent barley wine that I will probably have again.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jun 2008
at 09:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber beer with lasting ivory yellow head. Strong bready malt aroma mixed with weaker notes of tangerine and peach hops, and some sweet alcohol notes like sherry. Dry and malty flavour with some hop flavour and bitterness. The malt is bock-like and becomes cloying.
Tried
on 28 May 2008
at 17:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ thewolf-and-his-flock-of-sheep tasting session. Clear orange-red color. Aroma of sugar, caramel malt, hop. Bitter taste, malty, toffee, sugary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2008
at 09:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle@VinensVerden,Odense. Pours deep brown with a creamy off white head. Super sweet malty aroma, caramel & bread. Oily, slick, soft & smooth. Warmth from alcohol. Good dose of American hops. Nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2008
at 02:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. I dunno what I was thinking, but I wasn’t expecting much from this one... I thought it might be an overhoped attempt at another high ABV Lagunitas offering. Surprise! Color is that lovely tawny brown with a little bit of a head that leaves a nice film on the surface with a few soapy-looking bubbles here and there. Aromas are pineapple and sweet and sticky malt, but the flavor is where this really comes into its own. Sweet candi and caramel malts intermingle with fruits like prune, dates, figs and apricots and yield to a bit of a pine and pineapple hops finish. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2008
at 22:02
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours ruby red with a small head that doesn’t stick around. Aroma of nicely balanced hops and caramelly malt. Same applies to the taste. Hop bitterness, pine, lemon, brown sugar, caramel. Nice, chewy mouthfeel. Yum!
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2008
at 21:24
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle as shown. Pours a clear copper amber color with a medium frothy light tan head. The aroma is raisin and brown sugar. Decent lacing on the glass. The taste is a sweet malt and fruit. Hides the alcohol well and easy to drink. An impressive barley wine from Lagunitas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2008
at 18:17
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Really good! Pours with a large, creamy, off-white head with lots of lacing. Nice red body. Lots of floral hops in the aroma. Taste is big, malty, caramel. Mouth coating, very syrupy. Amazing! Re-rate: 11% for well under $5 per bomber! I thought this was one of the best buys of the year last year, and one of the most underated beers of 2008...let’s see how the new 2009 compares: Nice tan head on a ruby body. Good lace. Toffee and orange zest, yeast aroma. Taste is caramalized pineapple with burnt maple. Syurpy mouth...I would give this years batch a 3.7 instead of last years 4.2.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2008
at 00:12