Platform / Wolf's Ridge Panic Switch
Platform Beer Company in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.01
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Tap) cloudy, bright orange colour with a small beige head; aroma of tropical fruit; balanced, boozy flavour, but rather simple, long light bitter finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce can into snifter, canned on 11/28/2017. Pours lightly hazy reddish orange/copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense cream colored head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, plum, raisin, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, spicy rye, bread crust, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very slight booze in the aromas as it warms. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/pine hops, dark/bready/rye malt, and light-moderate fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, plum, raisin, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, spicy rye, bread crust, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine/citrus peel/herbal/grassy hop bitterness and rye spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, plum, raisin, lemon/orange peel, pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, spicy rye, bread crust, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/pine hops, dark/bready/rye malt, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness and rye spiciness balance; with zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mildly warming alcohol for 11%. Overall this is an awesome American barleywine. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/pine hops, dark/bready/rye malt, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the ABV; with the mellowly bitter/drying finish, never aggressive. Very impressive juicy citrus/fruity hop and yeast complexity; with nicely rich dark/bready/rye malt balance. Never overly sweet, some nice lingering bitter dryness. Comet and Cascade hops. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Deep copper with a thin head. Sweet caramel malt, peppery rye, biscuit booze. Full, slick body. Nice.