Charleville Barleywine
Charleville Vineyard & Microbrewery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.13
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a dark copper with small beige head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is dark fruit, caramel, booze. Slick body, bubblegum, raisin, toffee, boozy, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
5 oz taster pour at the brewery (listed as Barleywine 2020 but can't find a difference in recipe). It's a hazy brown (iced tea) with thin cap of khaki head with good retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong tart apple over caramel. Mouthfeel is light bodied with thin, smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, interesting tart apple aspect but not the heartiest of barleywines.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a BIF from jdell15. 12 ounce bottle into snifter, 2013 vintage bottling. Pours moderately murky dark ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of huge raisin, plum, prune, fig, pear, apricot, red apple, date, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, molasses, roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Slight oxidation coming out as it warms. Taste of huge raisin, plum, prune, fig, pear, apricot, red apple, date, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, molasses, roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark fruit, pear, apricot, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, molasses, light roast, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium-plus carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy, silky, and bready mouthfeel that is awesome. Slightly slick, syrupy, sticky, and chalky. Alcohol is very well hidden; very mild warmth of 10.5% lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent English barleywine! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. Very rich and complex with perfect balance of yeast fruits and dark/bready malt sweetness. Just enough earthy hop presence to balance. This aged really well, not much oxidation. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bottle poured into a small St Bernardus tasting goblet glass. 2010 bottle, ~2.5 years old , not purposefully aged. I think these are winter releases and I bought it about a year ago at Wine and Cheese. Brown-amber color, thick looking, small head. Aroma is way strong alcohol and malts. Sweet and raisin rich aroma. It’s too strong actually an bit over the top. Flavor is sweet but well attenuated raisin and light bark malts. It’s strong but not sugary is the bottom line. No sign of age at the moment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 4/18/12, 2012 Bottle
Aroma: The aroma is sweet malts, caramel, toffee, fruity notes, a little spice, and hints of molasses.
Appearance: A clear copper-brown colored beer with a small, lasting beige head and sheeting (disappearing) lace.
Flavor: This one tastes pretty sweet, malty first, then dark fruity flavor, and later some spice. Fairly unbalanced.
Palate: It is medium-full bodied, somewhat sticky, and with a hint of heat (but at 10.5% the alcohol is well hidden).
Overall Impression: This one has a pretty interesting and complex mix of malty and sweet flavors to it. I would have liked for the hops, which are hardly present, to be a little more prevalent, but somehow the unbalance works here. Somehow, the 10.5% is really well hidden, which could get dangerous quickly. A quality offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
New barleywine rate! Thanks Dak. Pours clear amber with tan head. The aroma offers up musty chewy sweet malts followed by mild molasses and dark fruity ester notes. The taste has sweet chewy malts to start and quickly picks up some molasses along with apricot, plum and raisin like sweet fruity notes. Around the edges of the flavor experience are thin rings of floral and earthy like hops. Overall this is a bit rough and could use some cellar time to blend it and even it out. It is still pretty tasty today.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pour is a nice dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is a very nice sweet malt with some brown sugar and molasses. Flavor is all things dark fruit and earthy malt. Some brown sugar is left on the tounge as this goes down. For 11% or whatever this is, the alcohol is no where to be found. A very flavorful and drinkable barleywine