Brewers' Cut Blonde Barley Wine
Real Ale Brewing Company in Blanco, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.79
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a trade with Cyde. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 12/30/2013. Pours hazy and cloudy orange amber color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of orange zest, grapefruit, lemon zest, orange rind, floral, honey, bread, light pine, and floral earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of malt and hop notes; with fairly weak strength. Taste of big orange zest, grapefruit, lemon zest, orange rind, tangerine, floral, honey, bread, pine, and floral earthiness. Fair amount of pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, citrus zest, floral, pine, honey, bread, and floral earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and complexity of hop and malt flavors; with a very nice malt/bitterness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a slick and moderately sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very nice blonde barleywine. Good balance and complexity of malt and hop flavors; and quite smooth to sip on. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Petrol Station. Pours a clear gold with small frothy white head. The aroma is yeast, honey, and spice. Medium mouthfeel with sweet malt and light roast and dry finish. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap. Pours with a clear yellow hued body with a medium sized white head. From appearance this could be a pilsner. Aromas are clearly not. Grassy, big toasty and biscuity malt character, medium ester, alcohol roundness. Flavors are of alcohol, medium estery, toasty and freshly baked bread malt and yeast notes, floral hop. Bone dry. Medium carbonation. Warming. Liked it.