Old Fashioned Barley Wine
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.73
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We're big fans of the classic Old Fashioned – a 19th Century cocktail traditionally made by muddling sugar with bitters, then adding Whiskey and a twist of citrus rind. This is our take, with Barley Wine as the base beer and the classic orange zest to serve. It's been in barrels for 12 months, picking up a well-rounded bourbon profile with some vanilla and caramel sweetness. Bitters optional!
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7/10
Tried
on 02 Jun 2018
at 11:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle (thanks fatphil). Pours ree amber. Aroma is sweet, fruity, malty. Flavor is sweet and malty, fruits, citrus. Finish is sweet and boozy. Overall: good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2018
at 19:07
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at Taplokaal Gist. Color: Dark brown, beige head. Taste: Medium to over medium sweet. Notes of caramel, molasses. Nice bourbon and vanilla notes. Full body, soft carbonation. Bit sirupy. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 May 2018
at 13:39
9.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Aus der Flasche (bottled 12.12.2017) im Muted Horn Berlin 2018-05 getrunken. Dieses dunkelbraune Gebräu wird in der Nase deutlich vom Bourbon BA dominiert dazu kommt eine wunderbare Getreidenote. Am Gaumen dann werden diese Eindrücke durch ein recht robuste aber auch passende Süße begleitet. Klasse Teil und sicher nur was zum Genießen und nichts für den schnellen Durst.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2018
at 23:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330 ml. bottle @ Gollem. 121217. Dark brown, dark red hue. Nose is herbal cough syrup, sugar, caramel. Thick cough syrup taste with cherries, cloygin cough, caramel, cake, desert, sticky cherry, almost vanilla. Thick cough syrup body, bit too thick cough syrupy but very tasty all the same, very heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2018
at 12:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear black color with beige head and a ruby highlight. Aroma is bourbon, raisins, vanilla, orange peel. Taste is fudge, chocolate, vanilla, almost cloying. Thick oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Okay, this gets really cloying over time... more like 6-4-6-3-13
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2018
at 05:19
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Eltham Wines, Eltham. Dark brown pour with a wispy beige head. Nose of tobacco, sultana, dark berries, black cherry, bonfire toffee, caramel, Exceedingly vinous aromas.Flavours of toffee apple, caramel, fruit preserve, black cherries, toffee, nuts. Long alcohol burn. Long, sweet vinous finish. Very smooth. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2018
at 18:14
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Barrel aged barleywine with orange zest by Siren, bottle shared with Craftmember. Thinnish, off-white, sparsely lacing moussy ring over a warm, lightly haze bronze beer with ochre edges and a deep ruby red hue in its ‘belly’. Aroma of candied cherries, ruby port, almond, toffee, maple syrup, pecan nuts, chestnut cream sauce, rum-soaked raisins, marmalade (which presumably represents the orange zest), muscovado sugar, whisky, some vanilla-ish oak, bourbon, Grand Marnier, dried prunes. Very sweet onset, bordering on cloying due to a lot of residual brown sugariness but in a noble, ‘candied’ way, reminiscent of fig compote, marmalade and yellow raisins; soft carbonation, thick, vinous mouthfeel as can be expected from a sweet English style barleywine. Thick caramelly, fudge-like malt body with thickly hazelnutty edges and a touch of chocolate to it, bit resinous, honeyish with that residual sugar sweetness persisting till the end, where the orange zest, malt and sugar sweetness, wood notes and warming, long alcohol effect all blend together in a Grand Marnier-like effect; hop bitterness in this whole story remains very much in the background. Very rich, complex, sweet and desserty, thick barleywine, absolutely great if you love this style, but perhaps just a tad too sweet and sticky for me personally.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2018
at 09:32
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Cask at cloisters... Dark brown.. Small tan head.. Soft sweet caramel woody toffee malts nose... oily woody... Soft sweet chewy woody caramel chocolate..Deep tones of orange oils .. soft raisins ... Rich thick soft body... sublime..
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Mar 2018
at 15:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark opaque brown pour with a thin light tan head, aroma has big bourbon and sweet fruits, taste is really sweet with big bourbon, sweet dark fruits, some bitterness, vanilla, pretty big beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2018
at 14:47